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Monday, February 26, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Miami heats up trades
Six transactions made by Thursday's deadline
The Associated Press
Pat Riley picked up five new players, Lenny Wilkens was reunited with an original Dream Teamer, John Lucas got rid of one of his favorite targets and P.J. Carlesimo suspended a malcontent rather than trade him.
The NBA's trading deadline passed at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Thursday, and six deals — three by Miami — were completed involving 19 players.
n Miami acquired point guard Tim Hardaway and forward-center Chris Gatling from the Golden State Warriors for forward Kevin Willis and point guard Bimbo Coles.
n In its third deal, Miami got guard Tony Smith from the Phoenix Suns for rookie guard Terrence Rencher.
n Miami also picked up forwards Walt Williams and Tyrone Corbin from the Sacramento Kings for forward Billy Owens and guard Kevin Gamble.
n Minnesota traded centers Christian Laettner and Sean Rooks to Wilkens' Atlanta Hawks for center Andrew Lang and point guard Spud Webb.
n Philadelphia traded center Sharone Wright to the Toronto Raptors for veteran forwards Ed Pinckney and Tony Massenburg.
in Orlando acquired forward Kenny Gattison and a low second-round draft pick from Vancouver for forward Jeff Turner.
n The Trail Blazers did not trade Rod Strickland. Instead, they suspended him for one game after he stormed off the court during a shootaround.
Strickland's well-known dislike for coach Carlesimo finally erupted into a rift that Blazers forward Buck Williams said was almost irreparable at this point.
Others who were anticipating to be traded but weren't included Clifford Robinson, Herb Williams, Alvin Robertson, Mark West and Haywood Workman.
By far the biggest shock of the day was the volume of activity by Miami, which has changed its entire starting lineup since the end of training camp.
After the Heat got off to a strong start with newly-acquired Alonzo Mourning, they lost 26 of their next 39 games.
"With those results, you've got to make
some decisions," Riley said. "We are not going to give up on the season. I don't know how much this is going to disrupt us. We are going to have to simplify things."
Riley expected to have only eight players in uniform for tonight's game against the Chicago Bulls. When all the new players have arrived, two are certain to join the starting lineup.
Hardaway, who asked to be traded from the Warriors after losing his starting job to B.J. Armstrong, will replace Coles. Hardaway is averaging 14.1 points and 6.9 assists, down from his career averages of 20.5 points and 9.6 assists. Cole was averaging 12.8 points and 5.7 assists.
Williams, averaging 14.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists, will take over Owens' old spot at small forward. Gatling most likely will back up Mourning at center and Kurt Thomas at power forward.
"It'll be great." Hardaway said. "Alonzo is a great player. I hear a number of good things about Pat Riley. I'm going into a good situation and hope to make the best of it."
Laetner, averaging 18 points and 6.9 rebounds, will be reuilted with Wilkens, an assistant coach with the 1992 U.S. Olympic team on which Laetner plaved.
Minnesota vice president in basketball operations Kevin McHale said team chemistry, or lack thereof, necessitated the departure of Laetner.
Although Laetner has been one of the most consistent Wolves since they drafted him out of Duke in 1992, he also has been one of the most volatile.
This week Laetner criticized prized rookie Kevin Garnett and the rest of the organization.
"I know some changes had to be made," said Lattner, in the fourth year of a six-year, $21.6 million contract. "They figured out that it was time for me to go. That's fine. I'm not the GM. I'm not the coach. I'm not making any decisions here."
The 5-foot-7 Webb is in his 11th NBA season. Lang is averaging a career-high 12.9 points along with 6.5 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.
Stadium repair cost secret
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Though it is touching the lives of virtually everyone in the Atlanta area, the staging of the 1996 Olympic Games is a private venture whose inner workings are closed to public scrutiny.
The Olympic Stadium is being built for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) with private money, so there is no public documentation about the stadium's construction problems.
ACOG officials refused a
Atlanta Olympic Games Authority, exists to monitor ACOG's activities. But though it has full access to ACOG's confidential records, MAOGa keeps none in its possession.
Under public pressure, ACOG in the past
request by The Associated Press to examine its records on the repairs made after an engineering firm analyzed the stadium.
Richard Monteilh, MAOGA's executive director, said that the arrangement was structured mainly out of concern that if ACOG's financial and marketing information were public, the organizing committee would be weakened in negotiating contracts.
Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers last year issued an opinion stating that some of ACOG's business may be subject to the state Open Records Act. But ACOG has maintained that it is entirely private, and that position has not been challenged in court.
has released some financial information, such as the salaries of its executives. And it releases periodic budget forecasts.
A public oversight panel, the Metropolitan
"What's private about this is, we're spending the money that we raised.
We're spending our own money," said Billy Payne, the ACOG president.
Payne said that it was the journalist's job to assume that everything was public and that the ACOG's job was to make the best decision it could. "We're not offended you all have a different opinion," Payne added. "Nor are we necessarily compelled to agree with you."
Men's tennis 1-2 in tournament
No.22 Kansas team works hard to improve against ranked foes
By Spencer Duncan Kansan sportswriter
The No. 22 Kansas men's tennis team struggled during the weekend at the 1996 Men's National Indoor Tennis Championships in Louisville, Ky.
Playing against three ranked teams, Kansas went 1-2 at the tournament in which 16 of the top ranked teams in collegiate tennis participated.
Teams were awarded one point for the entire doubles competition and one point for each singles match.
The Jayhawks lost to No. 5 Mississippi, 4-3, on Friday. Kansas won the doubles point, but dropped four of six singles matches.
Thirteenth-ranked Kansas sophomore Enrique Abaroa defeated No. 54 John Hede, 7-
6(2), 6-3, and improved his record to 19-6.
"Enrique picked up a big win, but were weren't able to get anything done in other spots," men's tennis coach Michael Center said
The loss to Mississippi put Kansas in the losers bracket against No. 11 Duke on Saturday.
picked up their second loss of the tournament with a 4-3 defeat.
Freshman Luis Uribe and sophomore Xavier Avila were singles winners, but Abaroa lost to No.15 Rob Chess, 7-5,3-
The Jayhawks struggled and
6. 7-6(5).
"It was very dis-
appointing," Center said on Saturday. "We played better today than we did against Mississippi, but we just had a couple of bad breaks at the
end."
The loss to Duke pitted Kansas against No. 9 South Alabama. Kansas played better and pulled off the upset with a 4-2 win, improving the team's
The Jayhawks have captured the doubles point in all 10 of their matches this year.
record to 7-3.
After capturing the doubles, Kansas used singles wins by seniors Victor Fimbres, Michael Isroff and freshman Fernando Sierra to earn the victory against South Alabama.
The biggest doubles win of the tournament for Kansas came when Abaroa and senior Michael Isroff defeated No. 5 Nic Chisholm and Jan Hermansson 8-4.
Isroff clinched the win for Kansas with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(9) win over Chisholm.
"This is a team that just keeps working," Abaroa said. "We are working very hard to improve."
Kukoc steps up as Bulls beat Magic
The Associated Press
Superstars relax on bench in 111-91 Chicago blowout
CHICAGO — Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Scottie Pippen were on the bench. Anfernee Hardaway and Dennis Rodman might as well have been.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the game belonged not to the biggest names on basketball's marquee teams, but to Toni Kukoc.
"There is no doubt in my mind he was the difference," Orlando coach Brian Hill said Sunday after Kukoc buried the Magic in an avalanche of 3-pointers in leading the Chicago Bulls to a 111-91 victory. "When Kukoc came in and started dropping threes on us, I felt maybe we got a little discouraged."
A starter last season who has become a role player this year, Kukoc scored a season-high 24 points on 8-of-11 shooting — including 6-of-8 from 3-point range — as the Bulls improved to 25-at home. Kukoc scored Chicago's first 11 points of the fourth quarter and broke the game onen.
"I thought in a game like this, Mom's watching back in Croatia and he's got a reputation at stake, he would be effective," Bulls coach Phil Jackson said. "Toni has a tendency to play very big in big games."
Once known as "Europe's Magic Johnson," Kukoc has had trouble adjusting to life in the NBA — especially since Jordan came out of retirement last March.
"I was playing 40 minutes (in Europe). I came here and my role changed," Kukoc said. "Here is MJ. Here is Pip. I've really got to wait for my chance. It was great to play like this. I wish I can every night. But sometimes it's hard coming off the bench."
The Bulls led only 74-70 before Kukoc opened the fourth quarter with three 3-pointers and a bank shot for an 85-76 lead.
After Orlando's Nick Anderson hit a 3-
pointer, the Bulls scored the next 11 points and made it a rout. Luc Longley began the run with two baskets and Kukoc capped it with a driving layup.
Kukoc also made three consecutive 3-pointers in the second quarter as the teams played to a 53-53 halftime tie.
"Kukoc really hurt us in the first half when he hit those threes," said Hardaway, who had 24 points but couldn't keep the
Magic's six-game winning streak going. "Then, he did it in the second and that's what killed us."
The Bulls are unbeaten in 32 regular season games at the United Center, last losing to Orlando on March 24 in Jordan's first home game since returning. Chicago (49-6), rebounding from Friday's loss at Miami, moved nine games ahead of Orlando in the Eastern Conference standings.
"It's a little jockeying for playoff momentum. And we defended our home court," Jordan said.
"The loss to Miami was one of those
Not only did Jordan's team come away with the decisive victory, but O'Neal also missed 10 of 17 free throws. And Shaq even lost the drawstring to his shorts late in the game and had to go to the bench for reinforcements.
"They played me one-on-one and their strategy worked," O'Neal said.
While O'Neal and Hardaway got the
"Kukoc really hurt us in the first half when he hit those threes. Then,he did it in the second and that's what killed us."
Anfernee Hardaway
Orlando point guard
games where you just stink up the place. We showed our character that we could bounce back and focus on a much better team. We knew what the game meant from a mental aspect. We were ready."
O'Neal scored 33 points to 23 for Jordan, who was weakened by a virus. But O'Neal failed to make a "statement" in the players' first meeting since Jordan was selected All-Star Game MVP over a perhaps more-deserving O'Neal.
and Hardaway got their points, they received little help from Anderson, Horace Grant and Dennis Scott — three players who hurt the Bulls when the Magic beat them in the playoffs last year.
Orlando, 12-15 on the road, had won its previous three road games. But that streak ended Sunday as the Bulls kept chasing the Magic's home-court supremacy standards. Orlando already has the record for most home wins to start a season (28) and has won 35 straight in the regular season dating back to last season, three off the NBA mark.
Notes: It was the first time the teams met at full strength this season. O'Neal missed the first two games with a broken thumb and Rodman
missed one of the games with a calf injury. Rodman had 17 rebounds Sunday, O'Neal 16. When he left the game with 1:08 left in the first quarter, Longley had as many field-goal attempts (seven) as Jordan and Scottie Pippen combined. ... The game began a stretch during which Bulls will play 12 of 16 at home. ... Orlando had won its first three games on NBC this season and was 10-2 in all nationally televised contests.
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