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Wednesday, June 22, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Lakers unplug Pistons to retain title
The Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers, led by James Worthy's 36 points, held off the Detroit Pistons 108-105 last night and became the first team in 19 years to repeat as NBA champions.
The Lakers, who trailed 32-47 at halftime, hit their first 10 shots of the third quarter on the way to a 15-point victory. The Bostons, with the Pistons in the final 12 minutes.
Byron Scott scored 12 of his 21 points during the Lakers' 23-7 rally in the third period, which spanned the first 6-25 of the second half and gave Los Angeles a 70-59 lead. Scott capped the spurt with a 3-point goal.
The Lakers led 83-73 after three quarters and quickly extended the lead to 125. Michael Cooper — 1-for-14 from 3-point range going into the game — hit
his second of the second half for an
88-73 lead with 10:49 left.
The Lakers led 94-79 with 7:24 left before the Pistons rallied.
Vinnie Johnson had three baskets and John Salley added five points as Detroit used a 17-4 spurt to close within 98-96 with 2:50 left.
After a missed shot by Los Angeles, Dennis Rodman missed a jumper with 29 seconds left.
The Pistons got within two on two other occasions before Magic Johnson hit a free throw with 1:16 to go to make it 103-100. Bill Laimbeer then missed a 3-point attempt and was unable to save the rebound. The ball went out of bounds with 1:05 to go.
With a sellout Forum crowd of 17,505 screaming, "Repeat, repeat," during every timeout, Scott hit two free throws to make it 105-100. The Lakers missed three of their next
four attempts at the line, however,
and the Pistons then trailed by only
106-108 when Laimbeer hit a 3-pointer
with six seconds remaining.
But A.C. Green clinched it with a beam with two seconds on the clock
layup with two seconds on the clock.
It voted the most valuable Player.
Magic Johnson added 19 points for Los Angeles. Joe Dumars had 25 points for the Pistons, Salley 17 and Adrian Dantley 16.
When the game ended, delirious fans swarmed over the court, celebrating the first successful defense since the Boston Celtics in 1989.
Isiah Thomas, despite a badly sprained ankle that had him on crutches just an hour before the game, played 19 minutes and scored 10 points in the first half, including consecutive jumpers in the final 27
seconds of the second quarter. Those shots gave Detroit the halftime lead.
But Thomas failed to score in the second half and saw only spot duty in the third.
The fifth title this decade for the Lakers. By successfully defending last year's crown, the Lakers had a guarantee by Coach Pat Riley.
The franchise now has won 11 titles, the last six in Los Angeles and the first five in Minneapolis from 1949-54.
"I'm going to guarantee everyone we're going to repeat," Riley said minutes after the Lakers beat the Celtics a year ago.
The Lakers also became the first team to win three seven-game series in one year. They beat Utah and Dallas 4-3 in the Western Conference playoffs.
Spinks finds hype, preparation boring
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - While the turmoil in heavyweight champion Mike Tyson's life captures most of the attention, challenger Michael Spinks goes quietly about his business, training almost unnoticed for Monday's title fight.
Unlike the Tyson camp, where various nasty battles spilled into the open this week, there are no controversies and no outward distractions as veteran trainer Eddie Futch puts on his own face at muggy recreation center several miles from the glitter of Atlantic City's seaside casinos.
For nine weeks now, the 31-year-old challenger has been in the gym, training methodically for the biggest fight of his career, a bout that will pay him at least $13.5 million and could be boxing's richest ever.
"We're just marking time right now, waiting for the countdown," said Futch. "He's right where we have wanted him to be all along."
Spinks, who cherishes his privacy
selidm strays from the daily training routine of running early and working out late in the day. He eats in his hotel room and watches television before retiring early to get ready for the next day.
As the fight approaches, his only complaint is that it's all getting a bit boring.
"It's starting to get to me a little now." Spinks said after finishing a training session. "I'm starting not to look forward to coming in here."
Though things are calm in the Spinks camp (he even trains in a small town called Pleasantville, which they know to visit with what Tyron is going through.
It was less than a decade ago that Spinks watched as his brother, Leon, won and lost a heavyweight title, then saw a once-promising career disintegrate from the chaos around him.
"If it's anything like Leon was going through, then I can understand maybe what he's going through," Spinks said. "I don't know if it will
hurt him like it did Leon. It's all according to what kind of person he is."
Spinks, though he claims to have not learned "even one itty, bitty thing," from his brother's problems, has no hangers-on in camp as Leon did and purposefully sheltered himself from most of the boxing world.
Spinks professes to have paid little attention to the reports about Tyson's managerial and personal problems, preferring instead to concentrate on the fight.
"The only problem Leon had was he was too nice," he said. "You shouldn't hang out and let the public get into your life."
"I'm not really interested," he said. "That would be saying like I'm looking for some help, maybe sitting in my room praying something will make it easier for me. That would backfire on me."
Futch, for one, doesn't believe any of the distractions will matter once Tyson enters the ring for the scheduled 12-round fight.
"I think he'll divorce himself from those problems once the bell rings," Futch said. "I have never seen a good fighter who has anything else on his mind once the bell rings. Someone else, don't even know who the referee is."
But Spinks will have some advantage, the trainer believes, because his training has been predictable.
"You approach every fight the same way because you are a professional," Futch said. "You don't deviate from the pattern that's carried you this far."
In contrast to Tyson, Spinks' own managerial situation is the rock of stability. A relationship with Butch Lewis that began after the 1976 Olympics has continued unbroken and both Lewis and Spinks say it is stronger than ever.
"Butch and I, we started together and we'll stay together," Spinks said. "He's like another me, a brighter one who can say the things for me that I'd like to say."
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