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Denver-SA series now 3-1
j Celtics bow out; Spurs lose
United Press International
The Boston Celtics, like most
champions in the history of the
NBA, kept telling themselves it
couldn’t riappen to them. But it
did.
Before a raucous crowd of
11,052 in Milwaukee Monday
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night, the Celtics’ season came to
a crashing end when the Bucks
completed a four-game sweep
with a 107-93 rout. While the
Bucks go on to meet Philadel
phia in the Eastern Conference
finals beginning Sunday, the
stunned Celtics — whose gloried
past includes 14 titles — will be
doing some soul-searching.
It was the first time Boston
had been swept in a series since
1951.
“It’s sickening,” said Larry
Bird. “It’s something I won’t
forget for a long time. It was
embarrassing and I won’t forget
it.”
Celtics’ guard Danny Ainge,
who was booed loudly through
out the game because fans were
upset over his alleged rough
play in the series, gav.^more cre
dit to the Bucks.
“I just think the Milwaukee
players outplayed us,” Ainge
said. “Milwaukee got good play
from everyone on the team.
That’s what it takes to win. And
we just didn’t have it on all five
cylinders in any game.”
Bird led the Celtics with 18
points, 11 rebounds and eight
assists, but it wasn’t enough to
overcome the Bucks, who were
paced by Marques Johnson with
33 points and Sidney Moncrief
with 25.
The triumph was particularly
sweet for Milwaukee Coach Don
Nelson, who spent most of his
playing career with Boston.
“This is my biggest win as a
coach,” Nelson said. “I’m just so
tickled. I usually come in
second.”
In the Western Conference,
Denver staved off elimination
with a 124-114 victory over San
Antonio.
At Denver, Kiki Vandeweghe
scored 37 points and reserve
Mike Evans got the Nuggets off
to a quick start with 17 in the
first half as Denver moved with
in 3-1 of the Spux s. Game 5 will
be played Wednesday night in
San Antonio.
Evans finished with a career-
high 23 points and the Nuggets
survived rare off-night per
formances by Dan Issel and Alex
English, who, playing with
minor injuries, totaled 35
points. Johnny Moore, who has
led the Spurs throughout the
series, scored 22 of his 26 points
in the second half and Gene
Banks added 24.
The Nuggets opened up a 26-
14 lead after seven minutes as
Evans hit his first three baskets
after replacing Rob Williams.
Denver led 40-29 after one
quarter and increased its lead
steadily, going up 72-50 at the
half.
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“I guess we’re still buried
alive,” Denver coach Doug Moe
said. “But we’re coming back to
life. We’ve actually had three
pretty good performances in a
row, and our players are getting
healthier.”
And Spurs coach Stan Albeck
said: “How many points did
Vandeweghe get? Seemed like
he had a thousand. The hole we
dug for ourselves in the first half
was almost insurmountable. It
surprised me that we came out
so fiat.”
The winner of the series will
meet the survivor of the Los
Angeles-Portland semifinal,
which resumes tonight with
Game 5 in Inglewood, Calif.,
with the Lakers leading, 3-1.
With their victory Sunday in
Game 4, the Trail Blazers
showed they were not about to
lie down and surrender to the
powerful Lakers, but they also
angered Los Angeles’ Coach Pat
Riley. Riley suggested Portland
was intentionally roughing up
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — who
nonetheless has scored more
than 30 points in each game.
“I’m really annoyed at what’s
developing with Kareem,” Riley
said. “They’re teeing off on him
with four or five guys, and
they’re wasting fouls on him. It’s
gotten progressively worse.”
Elway opts for football
career with the Bronco]
United Press International
DENVER — John Elway of
Stanford, potential game-
breaker and “franchise maker”
— the most soughtafter athlete
in the 1983 collegiate crop —
now belongs to the Denver
Broncos.
It all happened very quickly
once the behind-the-scenes
negotiations were completed. At
approximately 3:30 p.m. Mon
day the 6-3, 210-pound quarter
back left California for Seattle,
where he wasjoined on an airlin
er by Denver Bronco owner
Edgar Kaiser.
Later in the evening Denver
reporters were notified a “ma
jor” news conference would take
place at the unusual time of
10:30 p.m., and soon after El
way was presented as the newest
member of the Denver Broncos.
About 30 minutes earlier, he
had signed a series of five one-
year contracts; money amounts
were not made public.
“This hasn’t been a one-day
negotiation,” Kaiser said. “It
started over a week ago, before
and during the draft. We’re glad
we were able to make it.”
Elway had been drafted by
the Baltimore Colts, but prior to
the draft he had not been shy
about telling the world of his de
termination not to play on the
East Coast.
If drafted by Baltimore,
which had the No. 1 pick, he
vowed to play baseball with the
New York Yankees, for whom
he had already played in their
farm system.’
In exchange for Elway, De
nver traded to Baltimore the
player the Broncos had selected
as their No. 1 draft choice just a
few days ago: of f ensive lineman
Chris Hinton of Northwestern.
Also in the deal were second-
year backup quarterback Mark
Herrmann, and Denver’s No. 1
draft choice in 1984.
“So far not one thing that I
expected to happen, hap
pened,” Elway said. “But I’ll go
out and give 100 percent.
“The Baltimore thing is a
dead issue and in the pa
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Gretzky, Edmonton loo
for series sweep tonigh
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It’s hard for a coach to admit
his team played its best and still
lost.
“If we played anybody else
but Edmonton, we would have
won,” Chicago Coach Orval Tes-
sier said Sunday night after
Edmonton downed the Black
Hawks, 3-2, to take a 3-0 lead in
the best-of-seven Campbell
Conference finals.
Edmonton Coach Glen
Sather was polite.
“Chicago won’t change its
style and neither will we. Tues
day’s game will be tougher,” he
said.
It’s hard to imagine any team
being a tough one for the Oilers,
who have used their speed, pas
sing and goal-tending to move to
within one victory of a berth in
the Stanley Cup finals.
Sunday night in Chicago, they
added outstanding work in the
nets by goalie Andy Moog, who
stopped 39 shots.
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