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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 6, 1998
NBA legacy now in rookies' hands
Bv Ken Beraer
By Ken Berger The Associated Press
NEW YORK — They come in all shapes and sizes, from tall and lanky Tim Duncan and Keith Van Horn to tiny Brevin Knight.
What a future.
A year ago, the 50 greatest players in NBA history gathered at the All-Star game in Cleveland — Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Dr. J and Larry Bird all on the same court. Everyone wondered if the league's young stars could live up to that legacy.
This year, the question demands an answer again. Will the kids be all right?
Ep, say, Knight with each steal and nifty assist. Sure, save Duncan and Van Horn with each
dunk or smooth iumper
Does anyone still have doubts about the quality of the NBA's young talent? Just look at the players who are suddenly the elder statesmen of this new generation. Kobe Bryant, age 19. Kevin Garnett, age 21.
And listen to what the real elder statesmen are saying about them.
"I think Kobe is ahead of Michael Jordan's skill level at this point in their
careers," said Houston's Clyde Drexler, a 10-time All-Star and one of the league's 50 greatest -- who
Duncan: Standout rookie will play in All-Star game
couldn't even get a spot in Sunday's game at Madison Square Garden.
The rookie game, dreamed up as a sidekick to the All-Star game, has turned into a genuine preview of the NBA's future stars. Penny Hardaway was MVP of the first game. Garnett, whose jump from high school to the pros was deemed a harbinger of disaster by some, emerged as a true star two years ago.
Duncan is so good, he's playing with the real All-Stars on Sunday.
This year's rookie class appears to be just as deep. New Jersey's Van Horn, Boston's Chauncey Billups and Ron Mercer, and Philadelphia's Tim Thomas will lead the East against a West team that will have to play without perhaps the best rookie of all.
Tyson prepares to sink teeth into wrestling
The Associated Press
NEW VORK — Mike Tyson is getting involved in wrestling not for the money, but because it's what he wants to do. But he wouldn't do it for nothing.
The former heavyweight champion scoffed at suggestions he was in financial trouble and avoided answering questions at a World Wrestling Federation news conference about whether he is handling his affairs without promoter Don King and managers Rory Holloway and John Horne.
However, after the news conference Tyson said he thought the differences would work out.
Tyson denied reports that he had tax problems or was short of cash.
"I've got more money that you'll ever see in your life," he said.
Tyson: Set to enter the wrestling ring.
"I'm financially secure."
"I'm financially secure."
The man whose purses have
topped $100 million in his last six fights said he would be making a little more than $3.5 million for playing the enforcer in the WWF championship match between WWF champion Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin in pay-per-wrestlemania XIV on March 29 in Boston.
"I just want to participate in this sport," Tyson said. "I find it very interesting. But I'm a professional athlete. I wouldn't make a fist if you didn't pay me."
WWF owner Vince McMahon, speaking at the Official All-Star Cafe, said Tyson would not be in
the ring March 29.
"Mike Tyson will in effect be the enforcer on the outside of the ring in sort of a referee capacity," McMahon said. "He might not stay outside the ring."
Tyson is trying to regain his boxing license in July from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which revoked it after Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ears during a June 28 bout.
But he does think he belongs in boxing's hall of fame.
"If they don't put me in the Hall of Fame, they shouldn't have a Hall of Fame," he said.
All-Star game to showcase old and new regimes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — This should be an All-Star game to remember, a crossroads event with subplot upon subplot in the media capital of the world.
"It's going to be fun. I can't wait. Talk about your emotions and adrenaline!" said Kobe Bryant, the 19-year-old Lakers reserve voted by fans into the starting lineup for the
The New York Knicks' Madison Square Garden is known as the mecca of basketball and the game has not been in the Big Apple since 1968.
"It's going to be very exciting, given all the young players who have made the team." Michael Jordan said. "Most of the old guys and some of the old faces have gone."
Jordan and Utah's Karl Malone are the oldest veterans on the All-Star team.
"Charles (Barkley) is not there, (Hakeem) Olajuwon is not there, (Patrick) Ewing's not there — all the guys who came up with me when we
It may be his last All-Star game. Bulls general manager Jerry Krause has said Jackson will not be back.
made the transformation from the Larry Birds and the Kevin McHales." Jordan said.
"This is it. I'm done," Jordan said. "It's totally simple. I won't play anywhere else. I won't follow Phil anywhere. I will totally retire. That clears up every question."
EUGENE, Ore. — Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open despite severe dehydration in searing heat, testified yesterday that allowing Casey Martin to ride in a golf cart would fundamentally alter tournament golf.
PGA defends golf cart policy
The Associated Press
Venturi, called to testify by the PGA Tour, described his dramatic victory at Congressional Country Club outside Washington, D.C., where 100-degree heat and 95 percent humidity left him exhausted and caused golfers to drop out. He said he lost eight pounds and had no memory of much of the final two rounds, except what he learned later from accounts.
A doctor recommended that I not continue to play," Venturi said. "It could be fatal. I told the doctor I'd been waiting for this day my whole life, and I went out."
Venturi's testimony came after Martin's lawyers sought permission for him to ride in a cart in professional golf tournaments under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Martin's physicians said a rare circulatory disorder in his leg not only makes walking painful but could be dangerous. As his lower leg bone continues to weaken, it could break and might have to be amputated.
Questioned by PGA Tour lawyer William Maledon whether fatigue from walking the course would affect a golfer's performance, Venturi replied: "It will affect your game. It will influence your shot-making. It
Though expressing admiration for Martin, PGA Tour lawyers contend that changing the rules would give him an unfair advantage.
will affect your decisions."
Venturi, a CBS golf commentator for the past 31 years, said riding in a cart cart would eliminate fatigue and impact play.
"I'm not here to go against Casey Martin," he said. "I have the greatest admiration for him. But the idea is changing the rules.
"Where do you draw the line? he asked. "If you bring in an outside agent, an outside help, you are changing the game itself. What makes it the greatest game in the world is you are all starting the same way."
Professional golfer Scott Verplank, who suffers from diabetes and has had three elbow operations, testified on videotape that he felt he was as disabled as Martin.
After a temporary injunction made it possible for Martin to ride in a cart in the PGA Tour qualifying school tournament last December, Verplank said he demanded the PGA Tour give everyone the same opportunity, which it did.
Verplank said the cart helped him win the tournament by conserving his strength during six straight days of 18-hole rounds.
"There was a lot of lag time where you're standing around," he said. "I sat all day in that comfortable seat. I sat all day with my legs up. I didn't understand why everybody else wasn't riding."
U. S. Magistrate Thomas Coffin, who is hearing the case without a jury, has given Martin the chance to ride in a cart on the Nike Tour, which is run by the PGA Tour, pending the outcome of this trial. Last month, Martin won the first tournament he was allowed to play in at Lakeland, Fla., generating an outpouring of public support.
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