Thursday, February 17, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
The Associated Press
Bulls trade star Kukoc to Sixers
PHILADELPHIA — The Chicago Bulls parted with the last piece of their dynasty yesterday in a trade that sent Toni Kukoc to the Philadelphia 76ers in a three-way deal involving the Golden State Warriors. The Associated Press learned.
The other key CHICAGO
The other key
players in the deal
are Larry Hughes
and Billy Owens,
who go to the
Warriors, a league
source told the AP
on condition of
a n o y m i t y.
Golden State
sends a No. 1 draft pick and guard John Starks to Chicago.
The Bulls also get reserve guard Bruce Bowen, who played sparingly for Philadelphia. The draft pick Chicago gets from Golden State is Washington's pick from the Chris Webber trade. If it's in the top three picks of the lottery this year, the Bulls will have to wait for an unprotected No. 1 pick in 2001.
Kukoc, 31, would become the last key player from Chicago's six-championship run this decade to leave the team, following stars Michael Jordan, Scottie
Pippen and coach Phil Jackson.
There was speculation the Lakers would acquire Kukoc and reunite him with Jackson, his former coach. But the Sixers' acquisition of the 6-foot-11 swingman immediately made them a serious playoff threat in the Eastern Conference.
Hughes, drafted eight overall in 1998,
didn't agree with Philadelphia coach
Larry Brown or fit in the Sixers' offense with Allen Iverson at shooting guard. He was nearly dealt to Miami as part of a deal for Jamal Mashburn several weeks ago, but it fell through.
In recent weeks, Kukoc has said he wouldn't mind leaving the Bulls.
"Sounds good to me," he said. "It would be nice to play again for a team that has a great chance to win a championship."
With Kukoc in Philadelphia, the Sixers have that chance. After playing alongside Jordan in Chicago, Kukoc now will find himself playing with Iverson, the defending scoring champion who is the 76ers version of Jordan.
Kukoc was sidelined with back spasms
ior most of the early season and only recently returned, sparking the Bulls to three straight victories. He is in the final year of his contract and will be a free agent at season's end.
Bulls general manager Jerry Krause has scoffed at the notion of Kukoc returning to Europe after the season, saying the player and his family were too Americanized. Kukoc acknowledged
that Krause was right.
"My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized." Kukoc said. "My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago. So he is half-right about that.
"But I still like to go home in the summer, and I've never actually said 'no' to the European teams. I'm keeping those options open, but only if I can't find a team in the NBA.
"I'm intending to stay in the NBA."
"I'm intending to stay in the Kukoc made an immediate impact when he returned from the injured list, with 18 points and 11 rebounds in his first game back. Two days later, he had 33 points and 10 assists in a 110-103 victory against Washington.
Hornets forward acquitted of drunken driving charge
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte Hornets forward Derrick Coleman was acquitted of drunken driving yesterday when a judge said prosecutors did not prove the player was intoxicated at the time
intoxicated at the time of a 1999 traffic wreck.
Teammate Eldridge Recasner was seriously injured in the crash.
Mecklenburg District Judge Eric L. Levinson said authorities had failed to convince him beyond a reasonable doubt that
Coleman was legally impaired.
"I cannot make that finding," said Levinson, who found Coleman guilty on a related charge of unsafe movement. Coleman, in the second season of a five-year, $40 million contract, was fined $100 and ordered to pay $86 in court costs.
The charges stemmed from a crash that occurred early Oct. 27 when Coleman, driving
Coleman declined to discuss the case as he left the courthouse.
a sports utility vehicle, made a left turn and was struck on the passenger's side by an oncoming tractor-trailer.
Recasner, 32, a backup guard for the Hornets, was riding in the front passenger seat and suffered a fractured right shoulder, a collapsed lung and numerous other injuries in his chest, requiring extensive rehabilitation.
Coleman, 32, and a passenger, Ebony Kimbrough, 25, both had facial cuts.
Recasner remains on the injured list but has begun practicing again, and the club is hopeful he will resume playing soon.
Coleman told officers he had been drinking champagne earlier during the night, but refused to submit to a breath examination or other sobriety tests at the crash scene, and he would not consent to a blood test when he got to the hospital.
Assistant District Attorney Amy Sigmon said authorities should be allowed to draw logical conclusions from Coleman's refusal to consent to any of the tests in the field and at the hospital.
"The state would contend the reason he chose not to do these things was because he knew himself he was impaired that evening." she said.
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