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Wallace out in Portland for Abdur-Rahim, 2 more
ATLANTA — The Portland Trai Blazers traded volatile forward Rasheed Wallace and reserve Wesley Person to the Atlanta Hawks late Monday night for Shareef Abdur-Rahim and two other players.
In Wallace, Atlanta gets an often-troubled player who's averaging 17 points a game. He drew the ire of NBA commissioner David Stern earlier this season when he told The Oregonian newspaper that the league's white establishment is exploiting young black athletes to enrich itself.
Wallace later issued an apology.
Last season, he was suspended by the league for seven games for threatening an official on the loading dock at the Rose Garden Arena after a game. It was the longest suspension ever handed down that did not involve physical contact or substance abuse.
In the 2000-01 season, he set the NBA record with 41 technical fouls.
The announcement of the
trade came about 90 minutes after the Hawks beat the Dallas Mavericks 102-96. Abdur-Rahim had 27 points and 10 rebounds in the victory, and is averaging about 20 points this season.
He goes to the Trail Blazers with center Theo Ratliff and little-used point guard Dan Dickau, a first-round pick of the Sacramento Kings in 2002, who was traded to the Hawks on draft day.
The contracts for Wallace and Person end after this season, clearing up salary cap room for the Hawks. They are right at the luxury tax threshold.
Person, a guard, averages about six points a game.
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Heisman runner-up eligible for NFL draft
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PITTSBURGH—Larry Fitzger ald finally made the decision everyone expected: to enter the NFL draft.
The Heisman Trophy runner-up said Monday that he would forge his collegiate career at Pittsburgh to turn professional.
Fitzgerald, who will turn 21 in August, is projected to go early in the draft. Though the receiver played just two seasons with the Panthers, that was enough time for him to break several school and NCAA records.
His announcement came four days after he was declared eligible for the draft.
"The main reason people come to college is to better your chances of making a living, and I think that my two years that I've had here,I've given myself a good opportunity to make a good living ... for myself and to support my family," Fitzgerald said.
He petitioned the NFL to allow him to enter the draft despite two seasons of play. Fitzgerald left the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Minn., midway through his senior year in 2001 and transferred to Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy to boost his grades for college.
The NFL cleared the way for Fitzgerald to enter the April draft because he is three years past his senior year of high school.
"I'm very confident in my ability," he said. "I know there's going to be skeptics and there's
going to be people out there criticizing this and criticizing that, but all-in-all I know I can play the game of football."
The league's decision on Fitzgerald came on the same day a federal judge ruled running back Maurice Clarett could also turn pro despite playing only one season at Ohio State.
In that ruling Thursday, the judge said NFL rules regarding its draft violate federal antitrust laws. The ruling overturned the league's rule barring players from being eligible for the draft before they were out of high school for three years.
The 20-year-old Fitzgerald was dominating last season. He finished a close second to Oklahoma quarterback Jason White in voting for the Heisman Trophy, nearly becoming the first sophomore to win the award.
He was the most proficient receiver in Pittsburgh history and set three NCAA records, including most consecutive games with a touchdown catch (18), most touchdown catches for a freshman-sophomore (34) and most yards receiving by a sophomore (1,672), besting Randy Moss' 1997 sophomore
year. He tied the record for most games catching a touchdown pass in a season (12).
In 2003, Fitzgerald caught 87 passes and led all NCAA receivers with 1,595 yards in 12 regular-season games.
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Colorado guard out because of leg injury
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Senior guard Josh Kroenke will not play for Missouri against Colorado on Tuesday, after cutting his leg in practice.
During a practice session Sunday, Missouri basketball spokesman Sam Fleury said Monday, the backboard broke when guard Thomas Gardner dunked.
The rim struck Kroenke in the leg, opening a 1-inch cut and bruising his thigh.
Kroenke, a reserve, is averaging 3.4 points and 19.1 minutes a game for Missouri (9-10, 4-5 Big 12).
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ROBINETT: Coach Self needs to start with Graves
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At his news conference last Wednesday, Self said David Padgett was definitely their starter unless he got hurt or his foot started bothering him. Self said he thought Padgett could score and rebound more than other players.
Padgett does have the better offensive numbers, averaging seven points and 5.3 rebounds a game.
But statistics do not always tell the true story. Padgett has the advantage on paper only because he plays four and a half more minutes a game than Graves. The two have nearly identical statistics when they start.
Graves averaged seven points and 3.4 rebounds in the five games he started, compared to an average of 4.73 points and 5.1 rebounds a game when he was not.
Padgett still holds a slight rebounding edge, even when they both start. But the two rebounds a game Padgett grabs over Graves do not make up for the intangibles Graves brings to the floor.
Padgett is also only a freshman. At six feet eleven inches tall and 230 pounds, he lacks the muscle necessary to bang inside with the country's best big men. During the Border War game last Monday, even Missouri's senior tandem of Travon Bryant and Arthur
Johnson continually forced him out of position in the lane.
The freshman also lacks experience. He has fought with teammates for rebounds, appeared lost on defense, and missed wide open lay-ups when he easily could have dunked the ball countless times this season.
Or, as Self puts it: "I think every day is a learning experience for him."
Graves, on the other hand, has plenty of experience. He showed flashes of greatness last season in the NCAA tournament scoring 13 points and pulling down 15 rebounds against Arizona to help the Jayhawks reach the Final Four. And his 16
points and 16 rebounds kept Kansas close to Syracuse in the national title game.
Besides experience, Graves also has something Padgett does not: heft. With 25 more pounds of weight to throw inside. Graves has the type of body to finish plays, defend and wrestle with any forward or center in the country.
There is also some extra confidence that comes along with being called the starter. When Graves comes off the bench, it seems as if he tries too hard to make an immediate impact, and picks up quick fouls. If he were named the starter, he could receive a confidence boost and might return to his 2003 tournament form.
Coming in off the bench could also relieve some of the pressure
that Padgett has had so far as a starter. Fans might see a more relaxed Padgett, if he realized not as much was expected from him.
To be sure, Padgett is a key factor to this team, and needs to play around 20 minutes a game. But that is time he he can easily receive, filling in for Graves and Simien when they need a rest, or are in foul trouble. If Kansas is going to make a run at the Big 12 title, though — and ultimately make noise in the NCAA tournament — they need to start Graves.
This might gel better with the type of finesse game he plays, and allow him to make outside jumpers, like he did against Texas Tech, on a more consistent basis.
Robinett is a Dallas junior in journalism
Lincoln Week
February 8-12
Tonight: Philip Paludan
The Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the author of Victims: A True Story of the Civil War; A People's Contest: the Union and Civil War; The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1995 Lincoln Prize. He taught for many years in the History Department at the University of Kansas.
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