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’87 NBA draft doesn’t make the grade
By Ed Bodde
Assistant Sports Editor
The 1987 NBA draft definitely
won’t go down as the deepest or
strongest of recent years. Only Navy
center David Robinson could be la
beled as a “can’t miss” prospect, and
fans won’t see
him on the
hardwood for Analysis
at least two
years.
Therefore, it should come as no
surprise that of the three pro basket
ball franchises in Texas, the San An
tonio Spurs are the clear winner in
the draft. They’re probably the only
winner.
The Houston Rockets didn’t even
own a No. 1 pick, while the Maver
icks, needing a center, chose guards
in the first two rounds.
Here’s a report card of each
team’s draft:
San Antonio — The Spurs, in
desperate need of a center, couldn’t
resist taking the highly-touted Rob
inson. The best center prospect since
Patrick Ewing must serve two years
in the Navy before he’s eligible to
play. If the Spurs can’t sign the
seven-footer, they will undoubtedly
be asking a high price for his rights
— something like two established
players and a top draft choice would
be about right. Somehow, I think the
Spurs would rather have Robinson
to themselves.
The trade of veteran Artis Gil
more may open the way for second-
round pick Greg Anderson of Hous
ton. The 6’11” Anderson may see a
lot of playing time if the Spurs don’t
trade for another center. And al
though he’s got some potential, most
experts agree Anderson is probably
a few years away from making any
solid contributions.
The Spurs, already owning a tal
ented backcourt, may have found a
sleeper in Temple guard Nate
Blackwell. GRADE — A-.
Houston — The Rockets, who
seem destined to go throughout the
rest of recorded time without a point
guard, used their second-round pick
on Purdue’s Doug Lee. Doug Who?
Lee, a former Aggie, could fill the
Rockets’ need at the off-guard posi
tion if he can consistently bury his
jump shot. Still, one has to wonder
how the Rockets decided on the
obscure Lee, when Oklahoma’s Tim
McCalister and Alabama’s Terry
Goner were available.
McCalister averaged 20 points per
game for the Sooners while Goner
led the Southeastern Conference in
assists for three consecutive years.
Lee averaged just 10 points each
game at Purdue. The remaining
choices are less known than Lee, and
all of them will be hard-pressed to
make the team.
It seems the only way the Rockets
will come up with a quality point
guard in the forseeable future is
some kind of deal involving Ralph
Sampson. Unfortunately for the
Rockets, Sampson’s value may have
slipped over the last two years. And
the idea of a top-flight point guard
dishing off assists to Akeem Olaju-
won may just make some teams
think twice. GRADE — D.
Dallas — The Mavericks’ loss tc
the Seattle Supersonics in the first
round of the playoffs exposed twc
weaknesses — a lack of speed, and
the lack of a credible big man who
can score. So what does Dallas do?
The organization picked two incred
ibly slow guards, Jim Farmer of Ala
bama and Steve Alford from In
diana. Both are dead-eye shooters,
but the Mavericks already have
Mark Aguirre, Derek Harper and
Brad Davis. Could it be the Maver
icks are ready to part with the tal
ented, but volatile Aguirre? If so, the
Mavericks will probably look to get
an inside scorer.
Both Farmer and Alford should
make the team backing up Harper
and Davis. Either one could even
tually push Davis for the starting
spot. The key for both players will be
their ability to handle quicker and
faster guards one-on-one. Alford
will also have to prove he can get off
his shot without the use of a screen.
GRADE —C.
Adams threatens to move Oilers
unless Astrodome gets improved
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Oil
ers owner Bud Adams is serious
about moving his NFL team if im
provements aren’t made on the As
trodome, a judge and Astrodome of
ficials said Thursday.
Adams, who has owned the team
since I960, confirmed he will inspect
facilities at Jacksonville, Fla., includ
ing the seldom-used 81,000-seat Ga
tor Bowl, this weekend.
The Oilers have played home
games in the 50,000-seat Astrodome
since 1968, but in recent years Ad
ams has campaigned for more seat
ing capacity and new artificial sur
face.
Harris County Judge John Lind
say said officials hope to ask voters to
decide in November if $40 million
can be spent on adding 10,000 to
15,000 seats and another $6 million
to concrete the Dome floor and re
place the artificial turf.
“If we don’t put the seats in, I
think they are going to be gone at
some point in time,” Lindsay said.
The Astrodome is owned by Har
ris County and operated by the
Houston Sports Association. HSA
President Robert Harter said he
agrees with Adams’ contention that
improvements are needed.
“They (Oilers) are in a disadvanta
geous situation in that they are play
ing in the smallest stadium in the
NFL,” Harter said. “I think the Oil
ers are serious.
“There are other cities with op-
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Carl Le
wis began his quest for a “triple” in
the USA-Mobil Outdoor Track and
Field Championships by breezing to
victory in a heat of the men’s 200-
meter dash and qualifying for the
longjump final Thursday.
Lewis, who won it in 1983, is try
ing to win the event again this year.
The sprinters expected to give Le
wis his toughest competition in the.
200, Kirk Baptiste, the Olympic sil
ver medalist, and Floyd Heard, the
NCAA champion from Texas A&M,
finished 1-2, respectively, in their
heat. Each was clocked in 20.18.
Heats in the 100 were to be held
later Thursday. The semifinals and
final of the 200 will be contested Fri
day, as will the longjump final. The
semifinals and final of the 100 are
portunities for them to take a look
at, Jacksonville being one, and I per
sonally don’t blame them for seeing
what their options are,” he said.
The original Astro Turf was re
placed in 1978 and has worn thin in
recent seasons.
“Some say it’s too soft and some
say it’s too hard, but everybody
agrees it’s the worst in the NFL and
“It’s no secret that the city
of Jacksonville has been
pursuing an NFL fran
chise for some time. They
made a very impressive
presentation at the own
er’s meeting in Maui this
spring. ”
— Bud Adams
really needs to be replaced,” Harter
said.
The Oilers will be the fourth Na
tional Football League team to visit
Jacksonville this year. City officials
have been actively seeking an NFL
team, the Florida Times-Union re
ported.
Officials from St. Louis, Buffalo
and Atlanta have visited recently.
Falcon officials were the only ones to
make a formal visit.
Confirming a report in the Times-
scheduled for Saturday.
Four years ago, after completing
the triple, Lewis won gold medals in
the 100, longjump and 400-meter
relay in the inaugural World Cham
pionships at Helsinki, Finland. This
year, provided he makes the U.S.
team in all three events in which he
is entered in this meet, he plans to
compete in four events — including
the relay — in the World Champion
ships at Rome.
That would be similar to the 1984
Los Angeles Olympics, in which he
won four gold medals.
In the longjump trials, Lewis, un
beaten in 49 meets since 1981, took
only one jump, leaping 26 feet, 11'A
inches, an automatic qualifier for the
final.
Union, Adams said he would pay a
courtesy visit to the city because he
would be in the state on other busi
ness.
“It’s no secret that the city of Jack
sonville has been pursuing an NFL
franchise for some time,” Adams
said. “They made a very impressive
presentation at the owner’s meeting
in Maui this spring.
“Many of the NFL owners have
had a standing invitation to visit
Jacksonville for quite awhile. I have
politely declined their past invita
tions because my travels have not
taken me to the Florida area.”
Adams said he would be in Flor
ida this weekend as chairman of the
board of the National Sigma Chi
Fraternity Foundation and planned
to visit with city officials at that time.
“Since I will be in the area, (Gen
eral Manager) Ladd Herzeg and I
will stop in Jacksonville to see their
stadium and generally just give them
the courtesy of saying what they
have to say,” Adams said.
The Oilers are in their last year of
their lease agreement with the As
trodome, operated by the HSA,
which also operates the Houston As
tros.
Under their current agreement,
the Oilers pay 11.2 percent of their
gross ticket sales for each game as
rent.
They receive no revenue from 55
private suites at the stadium and no
parking or concession revenue.
In the 200 heat, Lewis stayed with
the field until about 70 meters re
mained, then burst in front and
raced easily to the finish line, clock
ing 20.22 seconds.
Calvin Smith, the world record-
holder in the 100 and the 1983
world champion in the 200, finished
second to Lewis in 20.33, one-hun
dredth of a second ahead of 1976
Olympian Dwayne Evans.
In the women’s 200 heats, Flor
ence Griffith, the 1984 Olympic sil
ver medalist, recorded the fastest
time, 22.35.
Evelyn Ashford, the Olympic gold
medalist, took her heat in 22.55, and
Gwen Torrence, the NCAA cham
pion from Georgia, captured the
other heat in 22.79.
Padres get
4-1 victory
over Astros
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A bloop
single by Carmelo Martinez that
Houston second baseman Bill Do
ran lost in the sun led to two runs
in a four-run sixth inning Thurs
day as San Diego beat the Astros
4-1.
Martinez’s popup would have
been the third out in the inning,
and would have sent the game
into the seventh with the score 1-
1.
All four runs were scored after
Houston starter Mike Scott, 9-4,
retired the first two batters.
San Diego left-hander Dave
Dravecky, 3-6, who pitched 6Vs
innings, allowed one run on four
hits. Dravecky was relieved with
runners on first and second in the
seventh by Lance McCullers, who
itched the final 2% innings for
is ninth save.
Dravecky allowed only a
fourth-inning, two-out homer by
rookie Chuck Jackson, the first of
his major-league career, which
glanced off the right-field foul
pole.
Scott carried that lead and a
two-hitter into the sixth when he
walked Stanley Jefferson with two
out. Jefferson stole second and
scored on a single to center by
Tim Flannery.
Tony Gwynn reached first on
an infield single that bounced
high off home plate, putting run
ners on first and second, setting
the stage for Martinez’s game
winning hit.
Martinez hit what appeared to
be a routine pop fly just beyond
second base, but Doran lost the
ball in the sun as Flannery scored.
Gwynn continued around and
was safe when catcher Ronn Rey
nolds juggled the throw from
rightfielder Kevin Bass.
Scott walked John Kruk inten
tionally and then Kevin Mitchell
singled to left, scoring pinch-run
ner Shane Mack with the final
run.
The victory was just the Padres’
fifth in 14 decisions against Scott
in his career. He was 4-1 against
San Diego in 1986.
The Padres, who have the
worst record in the major leagues
at 24-49, have won nine of 12
games.
Lewis, A&M’s Heard easily qualify for 200
at USA-Mobil outdoor track and field meet
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Wimbledon rains
dampen action
Vol. 82
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Defending champion Martina Nav
ratilova beat the rain and Japan’s Et-
suko Inoue to become the first
player to reach the third round and
the only player to finish a match
Thursday at Wimbledon.
With a backlog of almost two days’
worth of singles matches, 44 players
had yet to complete the first round.
Even Navratilova, who has spent less
than 1 Vs hours of playing time in the
tournament, said tne weather was af
fecting her style.
“I don’t think I rushed to get the
match over with, but I did rush in
between the points,” she said after
eliminating Inoue 6-1,6-2.
The two actually played 41 min
utes, but there was a 3 Vs-hour delay
after the fifth game of the first set as
rain continued to disrupt the grass-
court championships.
Only one other match was started
under the cloudy skies. On Centre
Court, Italy’s Paolo Cane led second-
seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslova
kia, the world’s top-ranked player, 6-
3, 5-5.
Alan Mills, the tournament ref
eree, said that if the inclement
weather continues, there was the
possibility some events could be
:hanged or canceled. But he em
phasized that the tournament, which
>aw all of Monday’s play rained out
and a curtailed schedule on Tues
day, is “not that desperate ... at this
point in time.”
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finish my match," said Navratilova,
who is seeking a record-equaling
eighth Wimbledon singles crown
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dwight
Gooden, speaking publicly about his
use of cocaine for the first time, said
he was grateful when he tested posi
tively for drugs during spring train
ing.
“In a way, I’m glad I got caught,”
the New York Met pitcher said. “I
might have ended up like Len Bias."
Bias, the Maryland basketball All
American, died a year ago after us
ing cocaine at a party to celebrate his
selection by the Boston Celtics in the
NBA draft.
In interviews with the New York
Post and New York Newsday, which
appeared Thursday, Gooden said he
began using cocaine in 1984 but that
he had never used it during the
baseball season.
“I was never hooked,” he said. “I
was never a junkie. I always used it
in the off-season . . . never during
the season.” He admitted, however,
that his use of the drug had in
creased from once a month to once a
week last winter.
“I know some people think I was a
junkie, but I never had a problem
with it. I did coke the way someone
might have a drink with dinner. Go
to a party or a club and it’d be there.
But once it was gone, I never craved
more. I let it go.”
Gooden was National League
rookie of the year in 1984 when he
won 17 games, and won the Gy
Young award when he went 24-4 in
1985. His production fell to 17-6 last
year as the Mets won the world
championship.
During last season, rumors of
drug use reached the club from
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth’s of
fice and Mets Manager Davey John
son confronted the pitcher with
them. Gooden denied the allegations
and agreed to testing this year after
signing a 51.5 million contract
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training, too,” he said. “1
thought I would get caught.
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days before the Mets tested
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came back positive. As a tel
test, Gooden was ordered to^
drug rehabilition program,
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and alcohol treatment center
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