The Battalion inn n a i i l< i w in Sports Thursday Stars win first game with Sharks Jordan contemplates retire® inn o DALLAS (AP) — Dallas lost top reg ular-season scorer Joe Nieuwendyk to a first-period knee injury, but the Stars recovered to take the opener of their Western Confer ence playoff series 4-1 over the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night. Nieuwendyk got the Stars’ first goal only 2:22 into the game as Dallas scored twice in the opening three min utes. Nieuwendyk took a lead pass from Darryl Sydor, got behind the Sharks’ defense for a breakaway and beat Mike Vernon with a wrist shot. But with 4:02 left in the period, Nieuwendyk was knocked out of the game by San Jose defenseman Bryan Marchment’s check. Nieuwendyk’s condition will be further evaluated by Stars medical personnel on Thursday. No penalty was called on the play. Juha Lind made it 2-0 only 37 seconds after Nieuwendyk’s goal when he knocked in the rebound of Modano’s slap shot. Dallas scored on two of its first three shots. But the Sharks answered at 12:40 when Owen Nolan scored on a slap shot from the top of the left circle. Dallas pushed its lead to 3-1 at 3:30 of the second pe riod on Derian Hatcher’s power-play rebound. Modano’s empty-netter with 1.9 seconds left made it 4-1. Stars goalie Ed Belfour stopped 21 shots. Spurs will use size against Suns PHOENIX (AP) — San Antonio vs. Phoenix shapes up as the Improvement Series. The Suns were 16 games better this season than last — a good comeback, but one that pales alongside the Spurs’ NBA-record, 36-game turnaround. Both arrived at a final record of 56-26 and quali fied for a first-round playoff series that begins Thursday night. San Antonio may owe its postseason return to in juries that kept David Robinson out of all but six games in 1996-97. His absence made the Spurs a lottery team, and they were awarded the No. 1 pick. They used it on 7-foot Tim Duncan, who averaged 21.1 points and a team-high 11.9 rebounds a game. The Spurs set the previous improvement standard during Robinson’s rookie season, when they won 35 more games than in 1988-89. “David has become more like a step-off-the-block player, one who’s going to face you up and shoot the ball,” Suns forward Antonio McDyess said. “And Duncan, he’s more of a power player, trying to dribble you in, shoot the hook shot. He’s got so many moves down there he causes problems for a big guy.” While the Spurs capitalized on the return of Robin son and a lottery break, the Suns returned to the elite ranks with something close to a makeover. McDyess, Cliff Robinson and George McCloud, who will start in the frontcourt, are new to Phoenix this sea son. Guards Jason Kidd, Steve Nash and Rex Chapman have two seasons or less with the team. But they jelled quickly enough to make the Suns a formidable opponent from the start. The Suns won the first three of a four-game regular-season series with San Antonio, and have the homecourt edge on that basis. The Suns, who have as much quality depth as any team but have no dominant center, believe in a tried- and-true philosophy: a good offense helps the defense. Jordan CHICAGO (AP) — His body, ex quisitely sculpted but still 35 years old, has been pounded repeatedly during a season that started in Oc tober and could yet last until June. Planes and practices, jump shots and jostling. But it is one question that wearies Michael Jordan more than anything else. At every stop, before and after every game, it is always the same: What’s next? Jordan has said he will not play next year if Bulls coach Phil Jack- son is not back. General manager Jerry Krause has said it is time for Jackson to leave, and the ex-hip pie, Zen-practicing coach is ready to take a year off. So that ought to be it. Right? Who knows? Jordan has at times appeared to hedge. And he’s changed his mind before. And al most no one wants to believe bas ketball’s greatest player, a man whose salary alone has totaled $63 million the last two years, is going to hang up his flying shoes. So the question keeps coming, over and over and over again. “It’s a lot of the same old ques tions I had to detil with city-to-city," Jordan said. “It gets monotonous, although I may have the same an swers. It’s taken too much time to talk about something that really hasn’t been decided.” He’s been on top of the NBA as its best player for years, even after tak ing a nearly two-year respite from the game when he experimented with baseball. Comebacks from retirement of ten produce players who are just a shadow of what they once were. Jordan, who altered his game the second time around and has made great use of a fallaway jumper that is unblockable, has won two championships since coming back. This season, he captured his 10th scoring title. What’s it like to guard him? “Hell,” says Nick Anderson, the Or lando Magic guard. “You ever been to hell before? You don't want to go.” Now Jordans favorite time has ar rived — the playoffs. Knowing the Bulls need 15 more wins for their sixth title of the decade, he’ll be revitalized for the postseason, which begins Fri day against the New Jersey' Nets. The playoffs, Jordan says, start “with your own willingness to push yourself.” And no one lias done that better. His career playoff average of 33.6 is the best in NBA history. 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