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■NEW YORK (AP) — Claude
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a commanding 3-0 lead in
their Mil. Stanlev (iup semifinal
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■The winner of this series will
■ on to the NHL championship
round against the winner of the
[Campbell Conference final be-
uleen Calgary and St. Louis.
■The Rangers, who outshot the
■nadiens 12-4 in the third pe
riod, had several excellent oppor-
ior tode- tunities to score early in overtime,
they were blunted by the ac-
rohatic saves of Montreal rookie
iltender Patrick Roy.
[Most of the overtime period, in
which Roy stopped 13 shots, was
^ played in the Montreal zone. But
th< opportunistic Canadiens, who
■d only three shots in the extra
5 Hriod, made one of theirs count.
V t L fv k HMike McPhee set up the win-
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1 •'‘TMd led Lemieux in the slot.
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espn.K \Jng beat goalie John Vanbies-
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a ^ c ,' hU eighth goal of the playoffs,
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d “V Montreal’s last 18 overtime ap-
IS -T '. as /^prances, dating back to last
Richterscak. y| ar ’ s pla y 0 ff s .
■The Canadiens tied it 3-3 on
Bobby Smith’s power-play goal
11 with 2:04 remaining in regula-
■n. New York’s Brian MacLel-
lan was in the penalty box for
‘ral proposed holding when Smith put a back-
juston, Texai hander from the slot over Van-
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Bucks out-muscle 76ers, deadlock series
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ricky
Pierce scored 21 points and Paul
Pressey 15, and they combined for
17 in the final period, leading the
Milwaukee Bucks to a 109-104 vic
tory over the Philadelphia 76ers
Monday night and deadlocking their
NBA playoff series at two games
apiece.
The Bucks, Central Division
champions, regained the homecourt
edge in the best-of-seven Eastern
Conference semifinal series and will
meet the 76ers in Milwaukee for
Game 5 Wednesday night. The sixth
game is in Philadelphia Friday night.
Milwaukee won despite 37 points
by the 76ers’ Charles Barkley, who
received an award earlier Monday as
the top player in the NBA based on a
computerized evaluation of all statis
tical categories.
The teams battled through an
even first half in which they were
tied at 27 after a period and at 60 at
halftime.
In the third quarter, the score was
tied six times, the last at 76-76, be
fore Milwaukee scored eight straight
to lead 84-76 with 1:42 left. But Bar
kley andjulius Erving hit jumpers to
reduce the deficit to 84-80 at the end
of the period.
Milwaukee built its lead to 93-86
with 8:29 remaining, but the 76ers
again pecked away at the margin un
til they gained the lead at 101-99 on
PLAYOFF
PICTURE
Conference Semifinals (Best-of-Seven Series)
Monday, May 5
Milwaukee 109, Philadelphia 104
Series tied at 2-2, Game 5 in Milwaukee Wednesday
Tuesday, May 6
Denver at Houston
Series tied at 2-2
Dallas at Los Angeles Lakers
Series tied at 2-2
Atlanta at Boston
Boston leads series, 3-1
a three-point play by Barkley with
3:23 left.
Pierce responded with a three-
point play of his own to give Milwau
kee the lead again, but Maurice
Cheeks tied it with a technical free
throw on a Bucks’ illegal defense.
Then, Pressey converted two free
throws after being fouled by Bark
ley, putting the Bucks ahead for
good at 104-102 with 1:46 on the
clock.
Pressey, who scored nine points in
the fourth period and all of his 15 in
the second half, hit a jumper for a
four-point lead before Barkley came
back with two free throws to make it
106-104 with 46 seconds left.
Pressey iced the victory at the 25-
second mark with two more free
throws.
Playoff Outlook
The momentum, if there is any, is
with Atlanta — but the odds, it
would seem, are against the Hawks.
The Hawks avoided being swept
out of the NBA playoffs Sunday,
beating Boston 106-94 at Atlanta in
the fourth game of their best-of-
seven second-round series. That,
however, only forced the Hawks
back into a Tuesday night return to
Boston Garden, a most unfriendly
postseason place for them.
Also Tuesday night, it will be
Denver at Houston and Dallas at the
Los Angeles Lakers, with each of
those series tied 2-2.
The Hawks are 0-2 in Boston Gar
den in this year’s playoffs. The last
time the Hawks visited Boston in the
playoffs, they were 0-2.
The Celtics also have a 44-1 re
cord in Boston Garden this season,
including a current 35-game win
ning streak. Although Atlanta man
aged to finally win at home Sunday
after dropping the first three games,
they’re bucking history. No NBA
team has overcome a 3-0 deficit in a
best-of-seven playoff series.
“We’re going to go in and play our
hearts out again,” the Hawks’ Do
minique Wilkins said.
Kevin McHale of Boston said he
thought the Celtics might have sub
consciously let up against the Hawks,
having won the first three games of
the series. “Maybe we felt in the back
of our minds that it was over with,”
he said.
Denver Coach Doug _Moe, savor
ing a 114-111 overtime victory
against the visiting Rockets on Sun
day, said the Nuggets are “in a pretty
good spot right now -— but let’s not
get carried away. There are two
games left in Houston, so they’re still
in the driver’s seat.”
The Nuggets, down five points
with 43 seconds to go in the fourth
quarter, rallied to force overtime,
then won with some key free throws,
holding on when Houston’s Allen
Leavell missed a three-point shot
just before the final buzzer.
The Lakers, the NBA’s defending
champions, suddenly find them
selves in a dogfight against the Mav
ericks, despite having been 18 games
better than Dallas during the season.
They were beaten 120118 Sunday
as Mark Aguirre scored 39 points
for Dallas.
“We’re OK,” Lakers Coach Pat Ri
ley said. “We’ve been here before.”
Dallas never has won a playoff
game at the Lakers’ home, the Fo-
Player of the Year bolts college for NBA draft
NEW YORK (AP) — Walter
Berry, the College Basketball Player
of the Year, who insisted two weeks
ago that he would return to St.
John’s University for his senior year,
said Monday that he had decided to
turn professional.
The 6-foot-8 Berry, who played
center in college but will be a for
ward in the NBA, submitted his
name by mail Saturday to become el
igible for the league’s June 17 draft.
“You hate to lose a player like
Walter,” St. John’s Coach Lou Car-
nesecca said, “but this is progress,
this is life. Every player wants to go
into the big leagues.”
When Berry was named The As
sociated Press Player of the Year in
March, he said he intended to return
to St. John’s. “Being the No. 1 pick
in the draft is the only thing that
could change my mind,” he said.
And on April 21, he said the
deadline to declare for eligibility “is
gonna come and go and I’ll still be at
St.John’s.” But by the time the dead
line had passed at midnight Satur
day, Berry’s letter of intent was on its
way to the league. The NBA said it
required only a letter with a post
mark beating the deadline to ensure
eligibility, rather than a public an
nouncement.
Asked why he changed his mind,
Berry said, “All I know in my heart is
that I want to play” in the NBA. “No
matter where I get picked, I’ve got to
live with it. Right now, all I want to
do is get on a team.”
“This year was a great one for me,
and still I was criticized that I was
not top-notch material,” added
Berry, who averaged 23 points and
11.1 rebounds per game and set a
school record with 76 blocked shots.
“If my stock would go down a great
deal next year, if I had a poor sea
son, they would forget about every
thing and then where would I be? So
this is why I feel I have to go now.”
After Berry received the AP
Player of the Year Award before the
NCAA Final Four at Dallas and said
he would not turn pro unless he was
assured of going No. 1 in the draft,
NBA superscout Marty Blake said
Berry didn’t measure up to that
level.
“He’s not ready to play at our level
yet,” Blake said then. “He’d better
stay in school, work on his outside
shot, handling the ball, shooting the
jumper. Walter is an inside player
right now. He can’t do that in pro
ball.”
On Monday, Blake, interviewed
by telephone from his Atlanta office,
declined to discuss Berry specifically
or any of the other undergraduates
until the NBA formally announces
their eligibility later this week.
But when asked to rank the best
forwards, Blake mentioned Len Bias
of Maryland, Chuck Person of Au
burn, Kenny Walker of Kentucky
and Brad Sellers of Ohio State. And
he said he wouldn’t include Berry,
regardless of whether he was for
mally eligible.
“When you speak of undergrad
uates,” Blake added, “I don’t per
ceive guys making too big an impact.
An impact, yes, but not a big one.”
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