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Celts’ Bird finds MVP nest—again
Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif — Larry
Bird of the Boston Celtics on
Monday became the fifth player
and first non-center to be named
the NBA’s Most Valuable Player
in consecutive years.
The (i-foot-9 Bird was second
in the league in scoring with a
28.7 average and was eighth in
rebounding with 10.5 per game.
He also averaged 0.6 assists, led
the Celtics in steals and shot 88.2
percent from the free-throw line.
Bird, who led the Celtics to the
best regular-season record in the
NBA (69-13) and into the best-of-
seven championship series
against the Los Angeles Lakers,
received 73 of the 78 first-place
votes from a nationwide media
panel.
Each member of the panel
picked five players, with the first
through fifth choices receiving
10-7-5-3-1 votes, respectively.
Bird totaled 763 points, while
Earvin “Magic” Johnson of the
Lakers was far behind in second
with 264, followed by Moses Ma
lone of the Philadelphia 76ers
with 218, the Lakers’ Kareem Ab-
dul-Jabbar with 206, Terry Cum
mings of the Milwaukee Bucks
with 138 and rookie Michael Jor
dan of the Chicago Bulls with
134.
Jordan and Cummings had
two first-place votes apiece, while
Johnson got one.
Bird joins the Celtics’ Bill Rus
sell (1961-63), the 76ers’ Wilt
Chamberlain (1966-68), Abdul-
Jabbar of the Bucks and Lakers
(1971-72 and 1976-77) and Ma
lone of the Houston Rockets and
76ers (1982-83) as the only play
ers to repeat as winner of the
MVP. The other four repeaters
were all centers.
“It’s a great honor to be consid
ered one of the best players in the
league,” Bird said at a news con
ference to announce the award.
“I’m pleased with my perfor
mance through the regular sea
son, although I’m not too pleased
with it now.”
Ironically, Bird has struggled
in the playoffs although the Cel
tics have reached the finals and
trail the Lakers, 2-1. After mak
ing 52.2 percent of his field-goal
attempts in the regular season, he
has hit only 46.3 percent in 17
postseason games.
“My shooting comes and goes,”
Bird said. “I’m a 50 percent
shooter over the long run and it
all averages out. I’ve had some
good shots and missed them.”
Bird was asked if he agreed
with the opinion of many that he
is the game’s best player.
“There are a lot of great play
ers in the league,” he said. “I’d
like to be considered one of the
best, but I don’t know about ber
ing called the best.”
TonZs-lfe Boston Garden waits quietly
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Associated Press
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ARLINGTON — Bobby Witt, the
Bniversity of Oklahoma’s right-
handed strikeout artist, was chosen
Monday by the Texas Rangers in the
first round of the regular phase of
nsehall’s free-agent draft.
■ Witt was the third player selected
in the draft. A 6-foot-2, 195-pound
Hiphomore from Canton, Mass., he
finished the season with a 7-3 record
and a 3.90 earned run average.
If During the recent season, which
ended when the Oklahoma Sooners
were eliminated in the NCAA re-
iionals in Austin, Witt had 118
strikeouts, including 17 during one
game against Texas, tying a school
record.
I A member of the 1984 Olympic
team, Witt had a 3-0 record and an
069 ERA. He recorded 36 strike
outs in 26 innings at the Olympics.
In two years at Oklahoma, Witt had
231 strikeouts, which placed him
fourth on the Sooners’ all-time list.
■ “Bobby is an outstanding player,”
Said Oklahoma assistant coach Stan
eek. “He’s got a great arm and
ows a lot of poise on the mound,
e's also a fierce competitor. ”
By WILLIAM R. BARNARD
A P Sports Writer
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Boston
Garden is waiting.
The 15 championship banners
and the retired uniform numbers
hanging from the rafters are wait
ing.
I he 14,890 who make up the rau
cous capacity crowds are waiting.
They’re waiting to work their
magic on the Los Angeles Lakers.
They’re waiting to continue te Cel
tics’ mystique of never losing the fi
nal game of a NBA championship
series at home.
But they may never get the
chance. Despite having the best re
cord in the NBA during he regular
season, the Celtics believe their
“homecourt advantage” in the finals
has been severely diluted by a travel
format that is being used for the first
time in 30 years.
To save travel costs and alleviate
travel fatigue, NBA owners voted to
have the team with the best record
play the first, second, sixth and sev
enth games at home, with the other
team hosting Games 3, 4 and 5. The
previously used format was to play
two games in one city, the next two
in the other and then hop from city
to city until the best-of-seven series
was settled.
Celts say new playoff format
shifts homecourt advantage
“I think it’s terrible,” said Red
Auerbach, president of the Celtics
and the coach of nine Boston
championship teams, of the new for
mat. “It’s just too long to be away.
The other team is just a fat cat, sit
ting and waiting. I think it’s an ad-
vahtage to the team playing three in
a row at home. They get to stay
around the hotel, doing nothing.
You play a game and sit around
three days. It’s not good.”
The Lakers, after winning the sec
ond game of the series at Boston
Garden and then Game 3 135-111
on Sunday at the Inglewood Forum,
have a chance to win the
championship without having to re
turn to the East Coast.
If they do go back, even if they
should have a 3-2 lead, history
would not be on their side. The Cel
tics are 15-1 in the championship se
ries, with the only final-game loss
coming in a sixth game at St. Louis
in 1958, and the Lakers are 0-8 in
die f inals against Boston.
But lest it sound like sour grapes,
the Celtics were unhappy with the 2-
3-2 format even after winning the
series opener 148-114. They knew if
they didn’t win Game 2, and they
didn’t, they could be in trouble.
“I never did like it from the start,”
said Celtics’ star forward Larry Bird.
“What you’ve got to do is win the
first two games at home, then you
don’t have to worry about it.”
“I wish it was the old format,” said
Boston’s Kevin McHale. “There’s no
use crying in your soup, but we’re at
a disadvantage.”
Not surprisingly, the Lakers are
happy about the prospect of two
more games in front of a friendly
crowd.
“I like it a lot,’ said Lakers’ guard
Byron Scott. “There’s less traveling.
I think it’s a lot more reasonable.”
Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss said he
has no strong feelings for or against
the new format. But he chuckled
when he heard the Celtics were un
happy with the format.
“I’m glad they’re looking for ex
cuses,” Buss said.
Mandlikova
shocked at
French Open
Czech tennis star
upset in straight sets
Associated Press
PARIS — Hana Mandlikova’s
dream of repeating her 1981 French
Open triumph evaporated in the Pa
risian sunshine Monday.
Mandlikova was rudely shocked
by Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in this
year’s $2.2 million tennis champion
ships at Roland Garros Stadium.
But Jimmy Connors was still in
the running for his first-ever French
Open final after he produced a typ
ical scrappy, battling performance to
reach the quarterfinals in men’s sin
gles.
Mandlikova, who was seeded No.
3 and to meet defending champion
Martina Navratilova in the semifi
nals, was stopped by the No. 7 seed
from West Germany 6-4, 6-4 in the
women’s quarterfinals.
“I thought I was in good shape,
but maybe I should get in better
shape,” the 23-year-old Czech said
after her loss.
Connors, the men’s No. 3 seed
whose best performances at Roland
Garros have been reaching the semi
finals in 1979, 1980 and last year,
dropped the first set to Francesco
Cancelotti of Italy before blasting
back to post a 3-6, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2 vic
tory.
“I would love to make the final he
re,” Connors said. “Being in the
quarterfinals doesn’t make my day.”
Defending champions Ivan Lendl
and Navratilova each dropped only
four games as they continued their
march toward repeating their tri
umphs of last year.
Lendl stopped lOth-seeded Aaron
Krickstein of Grosse Pointe, Mich.,
6-2, 6-2, 6-0, while Navratilova elimi
nated Italy’s Anna Maria Cecchini 6-
2, 6-2.
Lendl will face Argentina’s Martin
Jaite and Connors will take on Ste
fan Edberg in the men’s quarterfi
nals.
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