De Young: Crowd, music,
Portland failed hockevtest
■ Continued from Page 21A
was cueing the commercials was
way off and they continued to
run it when play on the ice began
again.
Then there was the music per
son. Whoever this was had never
been to a hockey game before,
that was obvious. There was very
little organ music and the rest of
the tunes seemed to come from
“It Came From the ‘80’s Week
end” on MTV.
So the music sucked and the
crowd sucked, but a good game
could have remedied this. Unfor
tunately, it wasn’t even a good
game.
Pittsburgh stars Mario
Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr didn’t
play, and the game went into
overtime despite the Ducks’ two
man advantage for the last few
minutes of the third period. The
game ended in a tie, something
that no sports fan wants to see.
Even though I wasn’t really root
ing for either team, I spent the
last few minutes screaming at
anybody who had the puck to
shoot. This was the only good
part of the night.
So if the NHL was watching,
Portland was probably crossed
off the list for an expansion team.
But the game last week may have
not been the main reason. The
Winterhawks are a Western
Hockey League team that does
very well. They draw fans and
have a loyal following. There is
no way an NHL and a WHL team
could survive in the same city.
They would be battling each oth
er for dollars in a market that
hasn’t quite caught hockey fever
yet.
But it doesn’t look like the
Winterhawks need to worry any
time soon. If the Anaheim-Pitts
burgh game was a foreshadow of
how Portland would handle a
professional hockey team, the
Rose City needs to stick to bas
ketball. Go Blazers!
Andrea DeYoung is the assistant
sports editor at the Oregon Daily
Emerald.
NBA: Kemp unhappy with
salary and contract
■ Continued from Page 21A
before the Sonics can give him
more money.
“When my contract can be re
worked in October of 1997,1 will
take steps at that time to assure
that my compensation is elevated
to a level commensurate with my
standing on the Sonics and in the
NBA,” Kemp said in a statement
issued through ProServ, the com
pany that represents him.
Kemp will be fined for missing
training camp workouts. Along
with Sam Perkins, he missed a
mandatory media session Mon
day night. Perkins practiced Tues
day.
Kemp said the Sonics will see
him when he shows up, and they
won’t be hearing from him until
then.
“There will be no further com
ments to the media on this issue,”
he said.
After the Sonics’ practice, team
president Wally Walker, coach
George Karl and Kemp’s team
mates said they were puzzled by
his absence.
“I’m not sure I understand,”
Walker said. “It’s an emotional sit
uation.”
“I don’t know if I understand it,
but I don’t understand a lot of
things in the NBA,” Karl added.
“All Shawn needs to do is tell us
what he wants and we’ll do it.”
“Sometimes, an athlete needs to
go off by himself and maybe this
is his time,” guard Hersey
Hawkins said. ‘‘We don’t know
why Shawn isn’t here, but you
have to respect his reasons.”
Kemp’s agent, Tony Dutt, was
in Seattle with Kemp on Tuesday,
according to ProServ spokesman
Dewey Blanton. Dutt did not re
turn telephone calls to The Asso
ciated Press.
Walker said he talked to Dutt on
the phone Tuesday and Dutt
didn’t say when Kemp would be
back.
“I don’t have a feel for the tim
ing of it,” Walker said. “We’re op
timistic, but that’s Shawn’s call.”
Kemp, 26, is entering the sec
ond year of a seven-year extension
he signed in 1993. Two years ago,
he signed a contract extension for
a $14.6 million balloon payment
in 2002.
Kemp is believed to be particu
larly unhappy with the $33 mil
lion, seven-year contract given by
the Sonics to free agent Jim Mcll
vaine, who will be the club’s start
ing center, during the offseason.
Mcllvaine was a backup center for
the Washington Bullets last sea
son.
Gary Payton, Seattle’s All-Star
point guard, signed a seven-year,
$87.5 million contract in July.
Payton said he talked with
Kemp by phone on Tuesday.
“He needs a little break,” Pay
ton said. “Give him a couple of
days to relax and he'll be fine.”
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