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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
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■ 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
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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.
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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-
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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. It took a while but we got it
done. I’m really pleased he got
here.”
Albeck, a native of Chenoa, Ill.,
said he was pleased to be returning
to the Midwest.
Albeck, who takes over a day be
fore the NBA draft, said he has had
“as much input as I’ve ever had with
the draft, including the No. 1 pick.”
He said he could not say who that
pick would be.
Albeck acknowledged the team
had a “weakness at point guard,” but
said it’s a situation he hopes to rem
edy quickly.
Albeck took the Nets’job June 8,
1983, leaving the head coaching po
sition with the Spurs to go to New
Jersey.
He had led the Spurs to the Mid
west Conference title in each of his
three seasons with the club and twice
saw the team reach the Western
Conference final, only to lose.
The 54-year-old Albeck grad
uated from Bradley University in
1955 and is in the school’s Hall of
Fame.
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