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Blazers
beat Jazz;
want LA*
By Landon Hall
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Utah
Jazz can flail and fume, but they
just can’t push the Portland Trail
Blazers around anymore.
Arvydas Sabonis and Rasheed
Wallace each scored 17 points as
Portland withstood a tumultuous
fourth quarter to beat Utah 101
92 Sunday, the Blazers’ 11th
straight victory.
“You know what’s going to
happen with Utah: There’s going
to be a lot of pushing and shov
ing, a lot of flopping,” Portland’s
Detlef Schrempf said. “We let
them get back a little closer than
we wanted, but we got the W.”
Steve Smith added 16 points
and Damon Stoudamire had 15
for the Blazers, who have won 17
of 18 overall and 16 straight at
home.
As the final seconds ticked off,
the sellout crowd chanted “Beat
L.A.!” The Blazers play host to
the Los Angeles Lakers on Tues
day in a showdown between the
teams with the league’s best
records.
“This was the perfect way for
us to get focused on the Laker
game,” Stoudamire said. “This
should be a carryover to the Tues
day night game. We’re just going
to let it all ride on Tuesday.”
Counting last year’s playoff se
ries win, the Blazers have beaten
the Jazz nine out of the last 10
times at the Rose Garden. Port
land leads the season series 2-1,
and the play one more time —
April 10 at Utah, where the Blaz
ers have lost 12 of their last 13.
Karl Malone and Bryon Russell
scored 23 points each to lead
Utah. But it was Malone’s physi
cal play in the fourth quarter that
stirred up the Blazers and started
the Jazz unraveling.
Utah closed to 82-79 on a dunk
by Greg Ostertag with 7:58 to go,
but after a turnover Malone got
tangled up with Portland’s Bonzi
Wells and threw him to the floor.
Wells jumped up and bumped
Malone in the chest, and the two
were quickly separated.
“That was a tryout for the
WWF, that takedown,” Blazers
coach Mike Dunleavy said of
Malone’s move.
Both were assessed a technical
foul, and the Blazers got a jumper
from Greg Anthony and a put
back by Wallace to take an 86-79
lead with 5:31 left.
A short time later, Ostertag was
ejected after a tussle with Smith.
Ostertag thought he was fouled
by Smith, and the two glared at
each other.
They exchanged words, then
Ostertag grabbed onto Smith.
Teammates, coaches and officials
immediately jumped in, and the
two were separated after Smith
had his hands around Ostertag’s
face and neck.
“We just hooked up. He didn’t
want to let it go,” Smith said. “He
gave me a stare, so I started laugh
ing.”
Ostertag had gotten a technical
in the second quarter for angrily
bouncing the ball, and his second
earned him an automatic ejec
tion.
Smith’s jumper with four min
utes left made it a 10-point lead,
but he fell backwards over John
Stockton and was helped off the
court with a slightly sprained left
foot.
Portland, leading the NBA in
field goal shooting, shot nearly 49
percent.