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Tuesday, June 18, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5 PORTS BA draft truly begins after ‘Knick’ of time platform o\e: -'hat ma; lx [ i the center ax;, dev d gas at a rapt: 'ill be retrievd gain for differ iter flights, search group: est the abiliN item based te Associated Press NEW YORK — It will always be associated with the No. 1 pick, al though all the suspense of Tuesday’s NBA draft will come after the New York Knicks use the first choice to take Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing. Unless the Indiana Pacers make a late announcement of who they’ll take with the second choice, the un certainty will start clearing up imme diately after the Knicks make official what everyone has known since May 12. That was when they won the “Ewing Lottery” that determined the order of the first seven picks. “We haven’t come to a decision yet,” Pacers Coach George Irvine said. “It’s no surprise that we’re looking at either Benoit Benjamin or Wayman Tisdale, two good players with vast potential.” Benjamin, a 7-foot cefter from Creighton, and Oklahoma’s Tisdale, 6-9 and like Ewing a three-time All- America, are the prizes among the 12 non-seniors who declared them selves eligible for the draft. “A lot of people think it’s an easy decision because everyone’s heard of Tisdale and the average fan hasn’t heard of Benjamin,” Irvine said. “But if you talk to basketball people, they say Benjamin has the same po tential as Tisdale. He may not have the immediate impact of Tisdale in his first year, but he’s a 7-foot center, and a good 7-foot center is hard to come by. You can’t just pass on a guy like that without considering him.” The Los Angeles Clippers, pick ing third, have said they will take whoever is left between Tisdale and Benjamin. “Indiana has a tough decision,” Clippers spokesman Scott Carmi chael said. Marty Blake, the NBA’s director of scouting services, said Ewing is the only “sure starter in the entire draft,” but he believes this year’s available crop is filled with poten tially strong frontcourt players, an area where teams never feel they are overstocked. Besides Ewing and Benjamin, the Spurs need inside bulk; Rockets look for guards m is not pre- ild plan to 301 with a must pass 101 b; thf s a degree >; the £n- n hematics n in 152 lay es in Col ews Bap- this pro- Associated Press ■ The San Antonio Spurs will be gunning for a power forward or a ■nter in Tuesday’s 1985 NBA draft, while the Houston Rockets will take albackseat in the selection process f|r the first time in two years. ■ San Antonio General Manager Bob Bass said the Spurs are eyeing afoot-10 Keith I .ee of Memphis State, 6-9‘/2 Charles Oakley of Vir- rgima Union and 6-9 Terry Catledge of South Alabama to fill the need at power forward. ■ At center, the possibilities are 6- ll'/v Bill Wennington of St. John’s land 7-foot Blair Rassmussen of Ore- ■n. ■ “I think we can get one of the five,” Bass said. ■ To do it, they’ll have to wait until The No. 14 comes up in the first | round of the draft. The Spurs, who finished last season with a lackluster 41 41 record, need a much higher draft position to come up with a star. ■ Bass said he doubts the Spurs will be able to work out a trade to ma neuver into a higher spot. The No. 14 slot is a far cry from the Spurs’ first-round draft pick of No. 7 last year, their best ever. ■ The Spurs will pick No. 1 1 in the [second round, moving up in a deal 5AIM AIMTOIMIO worked out when John Lucas was traded to Houston. San Antonio will be out in the third round after trad ing away that draft opportunity to Detroit for Edgar Jones. Jones since has been traded to Cleveland. In the fourth and subsequent rounds, the team will pick at No. 14. On everyone’s mind come ylraft time will be the availability of Der rick Gervin, the 6-8 star from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the brother of Spurs’ George Gervin. The Spurs have shied away from picking a hometown player in the past and most agree it is unlikely they will bend the rules in this case. The Rockets, on the other hand, will pick 19th in the first round after getting the No. 1 selection the past two years. But General Manager Ray Patter son, whose team picked twin towers Ralph Sampson and Akeem Olaju- won in the last two drafts, still will be trying to fill a need at point guard. Patterson and Coach Bill Fitch will be trying to bolster the Rockets’ guard position that was unsettled throughout last season. John Lucas started the season at the point guard position but was sus pended part of the season and never regained his full effectiveness. The Rockets showed interest last week in Phoenix Suns’ guard Kyle Macy, but his reported asking price of $400,000 may be too great for the Rockets’ salary structure to bear. The salary cap for the 1985-86 season is expected to be about $4 million per club and the Rockets al ready have a payroll of more than $3.7 million per season. “I like Macy,” Fitch said. “He’s a good player but that doesn’t mean we’re going to go out and get him.” Macy, 28, played in only 65 games last season because of injuries, aver aging 11.0 points per game. -jtTTUzdt BEEFY TOSDADA WITH PURCHASE OF ONE AT REGULAR PRICE. THRU SUNDAY, JUNE 23,-1985 Limit one coupon per person per visit: 11 a m. to 11 p.m. Not sood with any other offer. Valid only at Bryan/College Station Taco Bell®restaurants. TKOBEbb Our bar serves food. Happy Hour at Padre Cafe means free food. Our food bar is more than the chips and dips you find at some other places. We serve finger size portions from our world famous menu. And all drinks are $1.00 off from 4 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close. Try the happy hour you can really sink your teeth into. Free food bar Weekdays 4-6 p.m. Dominik Drive College Station-BY-THE-SEA top center prospects are 7-0 Jon Koncak of Southern Methodist, 6-11 Joe Kleine of Arkansas, 7-0 Bill Wennington of St. John’s, 7-2 Uwe Blab of Indiana and 6-11 Yvon Jo seph of Georgia Tech. Koncak and Kleine, like Tisdale and Ewing, were 1984 U.S. Olympians, while Blab was on West Germany’s Olympic team. Also in the “big man” category are 6-10 Keith Lee of Memphis State; 6- 9 Karl Malone of Louisiana Tech, another underclassman; 6-8 Terry Catledge of South Alabama; 6-9 Ed Pinckney of national champion Vil- lanova, and 6-7 Lorenzo Charles of North Carolina State. A tough inside player who may be ticketed for either power forward or “small forward” is 6-8 All-America Xavier McDaniel of Wichita State, who led the NCAA in both scoring and rebounding last season. Another two-position player who is expected to go high on Tuesday is 6-9 Detlef Schrempf of Washington, described by Portland General Man- TANK MCNAMARA Tto REFORM VAtoULp N/164NJ I GANTT W£iTe OFP TMl6> luxury eox. %\£ SMAe+ieSS ARC CM TOP OF THAT. UH6NJ THE IRG> A&6MT IE 91GHT6P.. • Tprprtflff ager Harry Glickman as “a poor man’s Larry Bird.” A more appro priate term might be “a poor man’s Magic Johnson,” because his combi nation of size and ballhandling skills make him a potential star at guard. The Seattle SuperSonics are be lieved to be strongly considering Schrempf or McDaniel as their No. 4 pick in the first round. Other top-rated guards include All-America Chris Mullin of St. John’s, 6-3 Joe Dumars of McNeese State and 6-5 Alfredrick Hughes of Loyola. Point guard, considered to be the weakest position for this year’s eligibles, has 6-2 Sam Vincent of Michigan State, 6-5 Jerry Everett of Lamar, 6-3 Rolando Lamb of Vir ginia Commonwealth and 6-2 Kenny Patterson of DePaul. Besides Tisdale, Benjamin and Malone, the other eligible non-se niors are 6-3 guard George Almones of Southwest Louisiana, 6-7 forward Joe Atkinson of Oklahoma State, 7-6 center Manute Bol of Bridgeport, 6- 4 guard Kenny Brown of Texas A&M, 6-8 forward Derrick Gervin of Texas-San Antonio, 6-7 forward Kenny Green of Wake Forest, 6-8 forward Jerry Reynolds of LSU, 6-3 guard Reggie Roberts of Texas A&M and 6-5 guard Carl Wright of SMU. Bol, who is from the Sudan, weighs only 190 pounds but already is the shot-blocking star attraction of the minor-league United States Bas ketball League. Gervin is the brother of former NBA scoring champion George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs. The first-round draft order is New York, Indiana, Clippers, Seattle, Atlanta, Sacramento, Golden State, Dallas, Cleveland, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, Utah, San Antonio, Denver, Dallas with two consecutive picks, Detroit, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Mil waukee, the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland. Dallas’ two extra first-round picks came in trades with Cleveland and New Jersey. by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds Bulls lure Albeck away from Nets Associated Press CHICAGO — Stan Albeck was named head coach of the Chicago Bulls Monday. He said that, with some minor changes, they could move into the elite of the National Basketball Association. Albeck, who last season coached the New Jersey Nets to a 42-40 re cord, was signed to a multiyear con tract, said Jerry Krause, vice presi dent of basketball operations for the Bulls. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Albeck did what Krause described as a phenomenal job with the injury- plagued Nets last season. Krause said he hopes the former coach of the Nets and the San Antonio Spurs can do the same for the Bulls. Albeck, who coached the Nets for only two seasons, replaced Kevin Loughery, recently fired as Bulls head coach. “We look forward to a long asso ciation with Stan,” Krause said. “Stan indicated he wanted to come here. 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