fhursday, May 3,1990
The Battalion
Page 11
Spurs return to San Antonio;
greeted by 1,500 cheering fans
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San
Antonio Spurs savored their first-
ground playoff sweep as the team ar
rived home Wednesday to an airport
jam-packed with 1,500jubilant fans.
“Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep,”
i; were the shouts as the Spurs stepped
off a plane, fresh from beating the
Denver Nuggets Tuesday night in
I Game 3 of the first-round Western
| Conference series.
“It’s great. I wasn’t expecting any-
| thing of this magnitude,” said Terry
1 Cummings, who led the Spurs with
I 28 points to defeat Denver and take
| the best-of-5 series.
San Antonio faces the Portland
I TrailBlazers in Portland on Satur
day in their second-round, best-of-7
| series. Portland defeated San Anto-
i nio in three of four games during
| the regular season.
Portland swept its series with the
Dallas Mavericks, but Tuesday
| night’s final victory was costly, as
I starters Kevin Duckworth and Buck
Williams were injured.
1 Williams was cut above and below
f his right eye, suffering a corneal
: abrasion and a crack in his sinus
I area. A Portland team official said
| he “should be able to resume activ-
| ities in the next few days.”
Duckworth suffered a fractured
p fourth metacaipal in his right hand.
I The length of his absence hadn’t
( been determined, but the injury
; would make rebounding difficult.
Hundreds of fans Wednesday
; waited to see the victorious Spurs,
I shake their hands and pat their
backs. The cheering crowd lined
half a terminal at the San Antonio
International Airport, and Spurs
players at times were barely able to
make it through the throng of ad
mirers.
Balloons, banners proclaiming,
“Way to Sweep” and brooms deco
rated the terminal. San Antonio
Mayor Lila Cockrell was among the
first to greet the players.
“It puts goose bumps on me,”
Spurs owner Red McCombs, who
“A
year ago we were so
full of despair and hope at
the same time. Never did
we dream our hopes would
be so fulfilled as what they
have been this year.”
— Red McCombs,
Spurs owner
traveled with the team, said of the
near-raucous welcome. “I could live
with this.”
McCombs said there was no com
paring the reception to last year’s
Spurs fan response. The team fin
ished the regular season 56-26 this
year, making the best one-year im
provement in NBA history from
their 21-61 record a year ago.
“A year ago we were so full of de
spair and hope at the same time,”
McCombs said. “Never did we
dream our hopes would be so ful
filled as what they have been this
year.”
Spurs coach Larry Brown said
Wednesday he didn’t want to think
much yet about battling the TrailB
lazers.
“They’re a special team. If we can
rebound with them and be physical,
we have a good chance,” Brown said.
“They seem to be playing their best
right now.”
But several Spurs players seemed
to already be thinking about Port
land.
“I think we’ll have to work a little
harder in that series. I think that’ll
be a tougher series,” said Cum
mings. “We can’t let them out-re
bound us, and we can’t let them get
in the open court with their tran
sition game.”
David Robinson, who scored 26
points in Tuesday night’s victory,
also said good rebounding will be es
sential.
“We’re going to have to come out
and play real focused and just be
physical enough to get the boards
and control the game. I think that’s
where the real control of the game is
in playing against them,” Robinson
said.
Added Willie Anderson, who also
scored 26 points Tuesday: “If we re
bound we can win.”
Anderson said if Duckworth is un
able to play because of his injury
Portland could have a depth prob
lem.
Conference
asks approval
for resolution
DALLAS (AP) — The Lone Star
Conference wants to play like the big
boys. The league adopted a resolu
tion asking the NCAA to reinstate
contact drills in football spring train
ing for Division II members.
This is the first spring training in
football for NCAA Division II mem
bers without pads and contact. But
the LSC wants to operate under the
same spring training guidelines gov
erning Division I schools.
Division I schools are allowed 15
practice sessions, including 10 with
pads, within a 21-day period.
The SLC adopted the resolution
Tuesday at the close of its annual
spring meeting in Dallas. League of
ficials will ask for the change at the
NCAA national convention in Jan
uary.
Also, the conference voted to re
new its contract with the Southwest
Conference to perform the duties of
a commissioner’s office. Officials
also established a committee to pro
pose LSC policies for drug educa
tion and drug testing.
The drug-policy recommenda
tions come in tne wake of the recent
arrests of two Texas A&I football
players and another student on co
caine-dealing charges. On Monday,
a former A&I football player was ar
rested on drug charges.
The arrests Friday and Monday
came less than a month after the ar
rest of Texas A&I linebacker Sean
Banks at Wharton on a charge of
possession of cocaine.
Rocket center, guards more than shooting stars
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HOUSTON (AP) — Los Angeles, which has
concentrated its defense on Houston’s Akeem
Olajuwon, now has another Rockets menace to
contain — the guard tandem of Sleepy Floyd and
Vernon Maxwell.
The guards’ performances were major reasons
the Rockets beat the Lakers 114-108 Tuesday
night and forced the fourth game of their NBA
off series Thursday night in The Summit,
loyd scored 23 points and passed of a club
off record 18 assists and Maxwell, acquired
rom San Antonio Feb. 21, scored 26 points.
Floyd and Maxwell each hit three 3-point bas
kets in the game, setting a team playoff record
I with six 3-pointers.
“Over the last 15 games we’ve really come to-
: gether as a back court tandem,” said Floyd, who
struggled throughout the season as the Rockets’
point guard.
Floyd and Maxwell meshed just in time to keep
the Rockets from being eliminated. They still
trail 2-1 in the best-of-five series.
“We complement each other real well on the
floor,” Maxwell said. “I pretty much know now
: what he likes and when he likes it. He’s starting to
know me the same way.
“It’s the continuity thing that’s the most impor
tant thing for us right now.”
Both players can score and they both can oper
ate the Rockets’ offense.
“We’ve got good chemistry,” Floyd said. “It’s
like the (Detroit’s) Joe Dumars-Isiah Thomas
combination. Both can create and both can
score.”
Maxwell isn’t ready to be compared to the Pis
tons’ combination.
“They are great players but I don’t really pat
tern myself after
whoever, I just
play my game,”
Maxwell said.
Besides, Magic
Johnson is Max
well’s hero.
“I respect him,
he’s my idol,”
Maxwell said.
‘‘He’s a great
player and I’m
trying to get where he’s at.”
There’s no nervousness about going against
his hero, however.
“I’m never nervous, this is what you live for, to
play against the great players and the great
teams.”
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ctister, joined ABC Wednesday-as
a football '---wnd basketball an
nouncer.
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an eyelash of going to work for
them,” Musburger said* . *Tm
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nity.
, “I got fired on April £ and I
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Swanson said Ai Michaels would
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coach Dick Vermeil and
basketball games with a
analyst to he decided later.
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ABC’s NFL wildcard playoff
games, host the Super Bowl pre-
game show next winter and
broadcast the World League of'
American Football.
Musburger’$ first appearance
will be on a prime time special on
June 25. His first sporting event
will be the Hambletonian on Aug.
4, followed by the Little League
World Series three weeks later.
. : Musburger said he has no
problems working with Michaels.
‘T consider him a friend. And
I’m hopeful that he’ll be at ABC
for as long as 1 am,” Musburger
said, “it has not been discussed —
between Dennis and I —anything
about Monday night.”
The 50-year-old
had been host of “The NFL To
day” since 1975. He also broadr -
cast college football games and:
anchored CBS’ coverage Uf Jthe
Masters golf tournament, the
NBA finals, the Fan American
Games and U.S. Open . Tennis
highlights shows. He was let go by
CBS on the eve of the NCAA
championship game, his final ap
pearance on the network.
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air opposite him. The two also
broadcast against he other in Dos
Angeles before. Swanson got off
the air and joined management.
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Olajuwon in the first three games of the series.
Olajuwon had to leave the game with his
fourth foul 26 seconds into the third quarter
Tuesday night and didn’t return until 3:13 to go
in the period.
But the Rockets battled throughout the quar
ter and still had the lead when Olajuwon re
turned.
Los Angeles led briefly near the end of the
third period but the Rockets scored the first six
points of the fourth quarter and held off the
Lakers’ 8-0 charge in the final minutes.
“It’s going to give them confidence but I don’t
think itll be a major aspect on Thursday,” Lakers
forward James Worthy said. “They spread out
the scoring and were more of a team collectively
than just a one-man show.”
The Rockets have won four games in a row
from the Lakers in The Summit and nine of their
last 13 at home.
“When we’re at home, our confidence level is
real high,” Rockets coach Don Chaney said. “We
just feel like we can get this win tomorrow night.”
Chaney has already guaranteed that the series
will return to Los Angeles for the fifth game on
Sunday.
Olajuwon thinks the play of Maxwell and
Floyd will help fulfill Chaney’s guarantee.
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