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BOSTON — Michael Young, the
/’ Boston Celtics’ top pick, said Tues-
day he wasn’t surprised that he was
/I drafted late, despite being highly
y rated.
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£| draft anything can happen,” said
/; Young, who played at the University
y of Houston. “I really wasn’t disap
pointed at all.”
He said that after the first 18 se
lections had been made, he hoped
no team would choose him before
the Celtics, who had the 24th pick.
Young said Houston played a
running game similar to Boston’s
fastTbreaking style, and that should
help him.
“I think I’ll fit in with this ballclub
well,” he said.
Young arrived in Boston from
New York for a brief news confer
ence Tuesday evening.
Young said the Philadelphia 76ers
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He taught him the secret to Karate
lies in the mind and heart.
Not in the hands.
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NORIYUKI “PAT’ MORITA
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Rockets grab Akeem
to no one’s surprise
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Michael Young
and San Diego-Los Angeles Clippers
had expressed interest in him, and
told him they hoped to draft him.
Sixers coach Billy Cunningham
had flown to Houston to talk with
the 6-foot-7, 200-pound Young, who
played forward and some guard in
college.
Young’s agent, Bob Woolf, said he
expected Philadelphia to take Young
with either its 10th or 22nd picks in
the first round.
Asked why he thought Young did
not go earlier in the draft, Woolf
said, “I don’t know. He just slipped
through. He’s not a head case or
anything like that. It was just Celtic
luck.”
“There was no indication that Mi
chael would last until 24. He is the
steal of that whole draft, there’s no
doubt,” said Woolf. “I think if you
had asked 500 basketball writers be
fore the draft, none would have said
Michael would be picked that low.”
The agent promised, “He'll make
this Boston club. He can shoot like
hell.”
Young said he would rather be
chosen by the world champion Cel
tics, a team he may not be able to
make, than another weaker team.
“I look on it more as a challenge,”
he said. “I’ll come in and do every
thing to try and keep the great tradi
tion going here.”
Young was the Cougars’ leading
scorer last season, averaging 19.8
points per game. He was a third-
team All-American choice by UPI.
A four-year starter for Houston,
Young is only the fourth player in
the history of the Southwest Confer
ence to score more than 2,000
points, finishing with 2,043.
HOUSTON — The Houston
Rockets didn’t surprise anyone
Tuesday by using their second con
secutive top pick in the annual NBA
draft to claim Akeem Olajuwon
fromthe University of Houston.
The Rockets won a coin flip for
the second year in a row to gain the
rights to the NBA’s first round selec
tion. In 1983, the Rockets chose the
NBA rookie of the year, Ralph
Sampson.
Olajuwon accepted a Rockets’jer
sey with No. 34 on it from Tracy
Thomas, daughter of team owner
Charlie Thomas.
The 7-foot center, who helped the
Houston Cougars to three straight
appearances in the NCAA Final
Four, said he was very happy to be
staying in Houston.
Thomas and General Manager
Ray Patterson have said negotiations
would begin immediately with Ola
juwon, whose agents are rumored to
be asking for a four-year contract
worth $1.5 million a year.
Sampson’s base salary is about
$800,000 a year.
Coach Bill Fitch said he did not
believe there would be any problems
signing Olajuwon.
“I’m not worried about signing
Akeem. If Akeem didn’t want to
play here and money was the only
question, there might be a problem.
I don’t think there will be,” Fitch
said.
But Fitch said there were limits to
the Rockets’ pocketbook when nego
tiating with Olajuwon.
“The toughest job for a general
manager is signing something that is
meaningful for the player and the
team,” he said.
Fitch said his concerns now were
blending the talents of Olajuwon,
projected to play center for the
Rockets, and Sampson, who will
probably move to power forward.
“Now we’re talking about some
thing that is my problem,” he said at
a news conference at The Summit.
“I believe both can be in the
lineup at the same time. I don’t think
either can have the impact in the
NBA individually that theycantai
playing together,” he said.
“If Ralph had had Akeemlopt
with in his rookie year, I thinkli
would have had an even greatersti
son.”
The Rockets did not select agi
in the draft until the second picii
the third round, having tradedtki
second-round pick to Newjerseyti
forward James Bailey.
Apparently, Houston felt
Olajuwon was all the center it woii
need, taking four forwards
three guards with its remain
picks. The Rockets did not have
lections in the second or sit
rounds.
The Rockets look forwards jn
Peterson, of Minnesota, and WI
Jackson, of Centenary, in the tin
and fourth rounds, respective
They then turned to the guards,gc
ting New Hampshire’s A1 McClain
the fifth round and Long Bes
State’s Joedy Gardner in these
enth.
Mavs hope Perkins and
Stansbury will fill holes
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DALLAS — Heading into the
NBA draft, the Dallas Mavericks felt
they had three big holes to fill. With
their first-round picks it appears
they went directly to those needs.
Dallas, coming off its best season
and an NBA playoff berth, tabbed
North Carolina’s Sam Perkins as the
fourth overall selection in the draft
and then made Temple guard Ter
ence Stansbury the No. 15 pick.
“As you may know, we tried very
hard to get the No. 5 or No. 6 picks,
too,” Maverick General Manager
Norm Sonju said after announcing
that his team had taken Perkins.
“We felt we needed a shooting
guard, power forward or center.”
You can read that last “or” as an
“and.” The most obvious weakness
Dallas had last year was the lack of a
dominant rebounder. Perkins is ex
pected to take up some of that slack
but not all.
“We felt very strongly that he was
the finest player we could chose,”
Sonju said. “He can play both for
ward and center but I think proba
bly he’d be considered a forward
with us, although he is better than
the centers we have now.”
Dallas Coach Dick Motta later
hinted that Perkins, who turned 23
last week and currently is in Bloo
mington, Ind., working out as the
U.S. Olympic team center, would be
in the middle for the Mavericks.
“I don’t know about being the
missing link down there,” Perkins
said of his selection by Dallas. “But I
think I can play either center or for
ward. I just have to go down there
and do whatever Coach Motta tells
“There had been a lot of specu
lation that Dallas would pick me, but
I kept an open mind about it,” Per
kins told the Dallas media via tele
phone hookup. “I’ve heard that
(Olympic) Coach Bobby Knight and
Coach Motta are similar in some re
spects, so I’m looking forward to
playing in Dallas.
“He has the wingspan of a kid 7-7
tall,” said Motta. “I think he’ll start
next year. He’ll be our best shot
blocker, and I’d hate to have to com
pete against him for a starting job.”
Perkins, an All-America each of
the past two seasons, averaged 15.9
points a game while at North Caro
lina. But the Mavericks will need
more rebounds than points out of
Perkins.
“Obviously, he’s a great player,”
said Maverick guard Rolando Blao
man. “We need a player who
come in right away and help us.”
Dallas forward Mark Aguirre
Perkins will be an improvement,
the Mavericks won’t be a power
the frontline.
“We’ll still hurt in the midi
Aguirre said. "We still won't be
great rebounding team, but this
help.”
With the cream of the centercn
going even before Dallas' four
pick, the Mavericks went theolh
way when their second first-rom
choice came up. In Stansbury, tl
got a career 48 percent field f
shooter who is slated right awayn
backup for Blackman, the teai
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Olympic hopeful selected by Spurs
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SAN ANTONIO — Former Uni
versity of Arkansas guard Alvin
Robertson hopes he can approach
the success two other ex-Razorback
backcourt stars have achieved in the
National Basketball Association.
Robertson, a 6-3 product of Bar
berton, Ohio, was chosen in the first
round of Tuesday’s NBA draft by
the San Antonio Spurs. He will join a
third ex-Razorback guard, Ron
Brewer, on the San Antonio roster.
Robertson spent Tuesday\at the
Olympic basketball trials at Bloo
mington, Ind., where he is one of 16
finalists for the 12-man United
States roster in the Los Angeles
Olympics. He mentioned former Ar
kansas stars Darrell Walker, an All-
Rookie selection in 1984 for the New
York Knicks, and all-NBA guard
Sidney Moncrief of the Milwaukee
Bucks when asked for his reaction to
the selection.
“I’m very happy to have played
with Darrell Walker and to have
been in the same program as Sidney
Moncrief,” Robertson said. “I hope I
can have success like they’ve had in
the NBA. When I was a kid, every
shot I took I thought about the
NBA. I was always emulating NBA
players.
“Playing against really good col
lege players in the all-star games and
in the Olympic Trials has given me
the feeling I can play with great
players,” he said. “Hopefully I can
improve.”
Robertson struggled with incon
sistency for most of his three years as
a Razorback. He began to attract na
tional attention last season when his
10 assists, including one for the win
ning basket with three seconds left,
helped the Razorbacks knock off un
beaten North Carolina, 65-64, at
Pine Bluff, Ark., in a nationally tele
vised game.
Robertson, noted as a defensive
specialist and good passer, set Ar
kansas school records for single sea
son assists (191) and career assists
(341). He became the 10th leading
scorer in Arkansas history with
1,097 points in three seasons after
transferring from Crowder College
(Mo.)
A surplus of guards in the Spur
camp may prevent Robertson from
stepping into an immediately promi
nent role, he said.
“San Antonio has lots of guards. I
hope they trade a couple,” he said,
chuckling. “The bottom line is mak
ing the team and playing for them.
“I’m very happy to be a member
of the San Antonio Spurs. Hopefully
I can go down there and contribute.”
The second team United Press In
ternational All-America selection
said his strength as a player is his
“aggressive man-to-man defense”
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