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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. He has
made game-winning shots in the
postseason an art form.
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