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Houston’s stuck on ‘Band Aid’
HOUSTON (AP) — The
Houston Rockets selected Mis
souri’s Derrick Chievous in the
first round of the NBA draft and
quickly learned the 6-7 forward
didn’t need a boost in confidence.
"To be honest, I don’t feel I am
coming in as a rookie, I feel I am
coming in as a player,” Chievous
said. "1 don’t feel conceited but I
feel I can score anytime, any
where on anybody.”
Chievous, Missouri’s all-time
leading scorer with 2,580 points,
led the Tigers into the NCAA
playoffs last season with a 23.4 av
erage.
Chievous thinks he’ll be able to
help out Rockets center Akeem
Olajuwon.
"With my driving and outside
shot, he won’t have to go home
every night and get in the whirl
pool,” Chievous said.
Houston Coach Don Chaney
said he liked Chievous’ aggres
siveness and team attitude.
“When he walks on the court,
he’s there to take care of business.
He’s a winner,” Chaney said.
“He’s an aggressive rebounder
for his size and he has good court
savvy.”
Chaney, hired June 13 to re
store the Rockets to
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Guard 2nd Olympic hopeful
drafted in Spurs’ ‘new era’
SAN AN TONIO (AP) — Wil
lie Anderson, a 6-7 guard from
Georgia, was selectee! as the San
Antonio Spurs No. 1 NBA draft
pick Tuesday as the team begins a
new era under coach Larry
Brown.
Anderson led Georgia in scor
ing the past two seasons to gain
All-Southeastern Conference
honors.
“We need somebody who can
play a lot of positions,” Brown
said. “He came from a great pro
gram. I like kids who can defend
and I also like kids who can han
dle the ball and he can do that.”
Anderson, who also is compet
ing for a spot on the ITS. Olym
pic team, said he was excited
about playing for Brown.
'Tin still pinching mvself hc-
championship contenders, also
liked Chievous’ team attitude.
“He’s the type that will lit into a
team oriented setup but he also
cause l don't think it’s real,” An
derson said. “Wherever Coach
Brown wants me to play, i’ll play.
I just want to get the chance to
compete,”
Anderson could be the Spurs’
second Olympian. . :
Former Navy center David
Robinson, the Spurs’ No. I pick
last year, is almost assured a spot
on the Olympic team.
Robinson will join the team al
ter next season when he finishes
his two-year commitment with
the Navy,./ - v ..
Anderson said he has learned
from and looks forward to play
ing with Robinson, 7
"It’s been a childhood dream
of mine to be on the Olympic
team,” Anderson said. “David’s a
great player to play with Hell
make me a better player.”
maintains his stats,” Chaney said.
Chievous had 979 career re
bounds, five less than the school
record set by former center Steve
Stipanovich.
After choosing Chievous,
Chaney said “I hate to make pre
dictions but I think he’ll be help
ing us by mid-season.”
Chaney said he would use
Chievous at small forward and
guard.
Chievous said he didn’t care
where he played or if he started
immediately.
“I was always taught it’s not
who starts, but who finishes,” he
said. “I just hope for the opportu
nity to play and if I don’t start, I’ll
work even harder.”
Chievous, nicknamed “Band-
Aid” because he wears one in
each game, was a clutch player
for the Tigers. He shot 85 per
cent from the free throw line in
the final three minutes.
Chievous said he started wear
ing a Band-Aid in junior high af
ter receiving a cut over his eye.
“I put on a Band-Aid and went
on a 45-point outburst,” he said.
Chievous was the 16th player
picked in the first round.
The Rockets could be encour
aged by New York Knicks 1988
rookie Mark Jackson, who was
the 18th pick in the first round
but earni’d • ’ r vear
Draft day highlight
in Clippers’ history
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los An
geles Clippers, the NBA’s biggest
losers for 12 years, put their youth
movement in high gear Tuesday by
capturing Danny Manning, Charles
Smith and Gary Grant, three first-
round draft picks.
The Clippers, after making Man
ning, Kansas’ All America forward,
the obvious first choice, were in
volved in a blockbuster trade that
gave them rights to Smith and
Grant. Grant was an All-America
point guard at Michigan, and Smith
a forward at Pittsburgh.
“Christmas is definitely here,”
Clippers coach Gene Shue said.
“We got three bona fide All-
Americans,” General Manager Elgin
Baylor said. “They have the type of
talent we want. We want to play up
tempo. You really can’t predict how
it’s going to be next season.
“I can’t think of any team in the
history of basketball that had a bet
ter draft than we had today.”
The triumph did not come
cheaply. In the dealing, the Clippers
lost their best veteran player, re
bounding champion Michael Cage.
The Clippers, winners of a total of
29 (Tames tlm Gst two years, were the
only franchise not to make the play
offs for the past 12 seasons.
“I need to work on my rebound
ing,” said the 6-foot-10 Manning,
who could start on a front line with
Smith and center Benoit Benjamin.
“I like to play small forward. It will
be nice to get away from zone de
fenses. I think our future is bright.”
“If we can motivate Benoit and
get him going . . .” Smith said, not
finishing the thought. “Danny and
Gary are good players. It will be a
tough adjustment because there will
be three rookies instead of two. The
whole scenario looks pretty good.”
The Clippers acquired rights to
Smith and Grant in a three-team
deal with Seattle and Philadelphia.
The 76ers swapped Smith, their
No. 3 pick in the first round, and got
the shooting guard they needed,
Hersey Hawkins of Bradley, plus
one of Seattle’s three first-round
picks in 1989.
Seattle lost that pick and the rights
to Grant and got Cage in return.
The Sonics have high-scoring for
wards Tom Chambers and Xavier
McDaniel, but could lose Chambers
to free agency.
yson-Spinks ‘Fight of Century’was anything but that
If you saw the latest “Fight of the
Century,” maybe you can explain it
ko me. Maybe you can find a single
element of the match-up that makes
£ense.
Indeed, as
Michael
Spinks hit
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Ihought going through my mind
|vas, “I don’t understand.”
I didn’t understand any of it. But
[hen, I don’t understand the “sport”
bfboxing, anyway. But we’ll save my
>oxing column for later in the year.
Spinks had convinced everyone,
or almost everyone, that he was a le
gitimate threat to Tyson’s reign of
terror over the heavyweight division.
And without any of the traditional
big talk and predictions of doom and
despair raining on his opponent.
“I ain’t ever run from anybody,”
he insisted. “I ain’t gonna run now.”
Well, he ran. He ran as fast as his
spindly little legs could carry him.
Tyson was in perpetual motion —
forward, that is. It looked like
Tweety running from Sylvester in
one of those stupid cartoons we used
to watch as kids. Spinks may have
gotten on his bicycle earlier than ex
pected, but Iron Mike brought a
Harley.
And then Spinks’ tire went flat,
and Tyson caught him on the ropes
and finally hit him with a decent shot
to the head. Not great, just decent.
Spinks doubled up. Tyson delivered
another decent shot, this time to the
ribs. And Spinks went down.
He honestly didn’t look hurt. It
looked more like a playground
scuf fle where one guy gets swamped
early and goes to his knee and says,
“Waitaminutewaitaminute. Do-over,
do-over.”
He just stayed there on his knee
for three or four seconds, not even
shaking his head as most knockdown
victims do, and got up to renew the
attack.
Some attack. What follows is not
— I repeat, not — an exaggeration.
Spinks lunged forward three or
four steps and threw a wild right,
winding up with his feel about a
yard apart and his head well off to
his left side. And he held that pose
about half a second.
All that was missing was an arrow
up his chest, a circle around his jaw,
and a sign saying, “Hit me here.”
One second and one punch later
Spinks was sliding back to the ropes,
this time on his back. This time he
didn’t get up.
The time was 1:31 of the first
round. The fans with me in The
Summit who paid $35 to see this, the
latest in an endless string of classic
confrontations, wound up shelling
out about 38 cents per second.
Can you point to anything in the
past 10 or 1 1 paragraphs that makes
any sense at all?
But it gets stranger. Robin Givens,
who the entire world now recognizes
as Tyson’s wife, chooses the day of
the fight to file a lawsuit against her
husband’s management. Like she
hasn’t created enough chaos in her
husband’s life already in the past few
weeks.
Who in his right mind would get
married during preparations for the
biggest fight of his career, anyway?
What fighter would allow' his wife
and mother-in-law to push around
his management? Tyson and Tyson,
that’s who.
The rumors were spread all over
the newsstands, in publications from
Sports Illustrated to People. The
fight gets more and more hype, con
siderably more than it obviously de
served.
The controversies resulted in a
late surge of bets on Spinks, drop
ping the odds on the fight from 5-to-
1 to 3 Vk-to-1.
Does the word “fix” come to
mind?
But if you had gone to one of the
fans at The Summit with that theory,
you would have been rudely refuted.
There is no doubt that the common
man has found a champion in Mi
chael Tyson, and they will hear no
evil about him.
Spinks got a rousing round of ap
plause when he entered the ring, but
nothing to compare with the erup
tion of cheers, whistles and screams
when Tyson appeared. Iron Mike
was the man.
Generally the American public
wants to cheer for the underdog.
There is no bigger thrill in sport
than seeing a lightly regarded con
tender give the BMOC a run for his
money, and maybe even knock him
off. Witness Sugar Ray Leonard vs.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
But there was none of that, or at
least very little.
Perhaps the boxing fans of Amer
ica have tired of the multitude of
also-rans that have plagued the
heavyweight division this decade.
Perhaps they’ve had enough of par
ity and are ready for a true cham
pion, one everyone can look to and
call “The Best” without fear of re
buttal.
I suppose it was appropriate that
the biggest reaction I heard from the
crowd before the fight was when
Muhammad AH was announced.
That’s who the fans want, even now.
They remember Ali. They re
member how he fought on a regular
basis instead of once every couple of
years. He took on the contenders
and the pretenders, the unknown
and the untalented, anyone who
wanted a shot at the title.
They saw Larry Holmes in his
later years, how he dodged Greg
Page for years and tippy-toed his
way through patsies to bolster his
string of successful title defenses.
They saw Spinks avoid No. 1 con
tender Tony Tucker, costing him his
title. They saw Spinks wait over a
year before finally taking on Tyson.
The public obviously wants a
dominating champion, and that’s
what they have.
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