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MARCH 11,1998
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BLAZERS SIGN GRANT, WAIVE WINGFIELD
The Portland Trail B lazers
waived Dontonio Wingfield on
Thursday and signed Gary Grant
to a 10-day contract.
The team also placed Vincent
Askew on the injured list with a
Dunleavy. He appeared in just three
games this season, scoring one
point and grabbing four rebounds.
Wingfield came to the NBA af
ter just one collegiate season at
Cincinnati. He was drafted in the
We wish Dontonio the best in
his future endeavors, ”
sore back.
Wingfield had been with the
Blazers since signing as a free agent
in 1995. He played in all but three
games last season under coach P.J.
C'arlesimo, averaging 4.5 points per
game.
But he found himself at the end
o f the bench under new coach Mike
second round by Seattle when Bob
Whitsitt, the Blazers’ current presi
dent, was GM o f the Sonics.
“We wish Dontonio the best in
his future endeavors,” W hitsitt
said. “ He has an offer to play over
seas and this will allow him to take
advantage o f that opportunity.”
Grant, 32, played seven years
Dontonio Wingfield
with the Los Angeles Clippers, then
spent 1996 with the New York
Knicks and 1997 with Miami. He
was with the Yakima (W ash.) Sun
Kings o f the Continental Basket
ball Association when he signed
with Portland.
Grant was signed to shore up
the Blazers at point guard. Starter
Damon Stoudam ire sprained his
right ankle in Tuesday n ig h t’s
98-93 victory over Phoenix and
may miss S unday’s gam e against
San
A n to n io .
W ith o u t
Stoudam ire, Portland had ju s,
one point guard, ex-CBA player
Rick Brunson.
Gran, has averaged 8.1 points
and 5.6 points in his NBA career
with a .450 field goal percentage.
John Crotty, signed by Portland
as the No. 1 backup point guard
before the start o f the season, has
missed most o f the year with a knee
injury and is recovering from
arthroscopic surgery.
Casey Martin Survives 6-Day Ordeal
Spurs
82, Trail
Blazers
78
Tim Duncan had 25 points
and 13 rebounds and Chuck Per
son sank a 20-foot bank shot for
the go-ahead points Sunday as
the San Antonio Spurs held on to
beat the cold-shooting Portland
Trail Blazers 82-78.
David Robinson had just 11
points and eight rebounds be
fore fouling out with 3 :10 to play.
But the Blazers, playing with
out injured Damon Stoudamire,
c o u ld n ’t overcom e a horrid
shooting performance by start
ing forwards Rasheed Wallace
and Brian Grant. W allace was 3-
fo r-16 and Grant 1 -for-8, includ
ing an air ball from 4 feet with 30
seconds to play and the Blazers
trailing 79-76.
Portland, which trailed by as
many as 10 and never led after
the early second quarter, shot 34
percent from the field, compared
with 44 percent for San Antonio.
A rv y das S ab o n is had 23
points and 17 rebounds for Port
land. The B lazers’ Isaiah Rider
also scored 23 on 9-for-23 shoot
ing. Vinny Del Negro added 15
for San Antonio, nine in the third
quarter when the rest of the Spurs
were struggling.
Robinson drew his sixth foul
on a moving screen call with the
Spurs leading 76-74. Rider’s 14-
foot bank shot tied it at 76 with
2:54 to play. But Portland didn’t
get another field goal until just
18 seconds remained in the game.
The Blazers were cal led for trav
eling, three seconds in the key
and illegal defense down the
stretch.
Sabonis’ basket with 18 sec
onds left cut the lead to 80-78,
but ex-BlazerJaren Jackson sank
two free throws with 14.1 sec
onds to ice the victory and give
the Spurs a 4-4 split on their
West Coast road trip.
Duncan, who had 14 in the
first half, scored six in a 14-3 run
that put the Spurs up 39-31 with
1:56 left in the half.
San
A n t o n i o ’s A v e ry
Johnson played only 14 m in
utes in the first h alfbefore leav
ing with a right hip strain.
S to u d a m ire is o u t w ith a
sprained right ankle. His re
placem ent, Rick B runson, was
hit in the face by R o b in so n ’s
flailing right w rist in the first
quarter and was helped to the
Portland locker room , but re
turned later in the game.
Notes:@ Duncan had his 4 1 st
double-double, best in the NBA.
Hounded by fans and media dur
ing his first week of competition since
winning a lawsuit against the PGA
Tour for the right to ride a cart,
Martin was scheduled to play in a
fundraiser for,he Stanford golfteam
in California today. Then he’ll fly
across the country for a promotional
tour with his latest sponsor, Hartford
Life Insurance Co., in New York on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
“I won’t play again on the Nike
Tour until next week in Monterrey,
Mexico,” Martin said. “I guess you
could call this week a week of rest.”
Martin discovered Sunday that his
right to ride a golf cart had a down
side on a day when the weather was
cold.
He never got warm in his roofless
car, and struggled to a 6-over-par 78
in the Greater Austin Open, his first
competitive event since he won a
lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
“It was brutal out there,” Martin
said after contending with 40 mph
gusts and a wind chili o f 21 degrees.
“My hands were freezing and the
clubs felt like I was holding metal
rods. It was one of the hardest days
I’ve ever played.”
Martin isn’t allowed a windscreen
or a roof under PGA Tour rules and
he could have used one on the 42-
degree day more fit for football than
golf.
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Mr. Hayes was born in South Dakotu January 7, 1940, and died
at Legacy Meridian Hospital, Tualatin, Friday, February I J, 1998,
o f a brain aneurysm.
His early years were spent in the logging community o f Oak
Ridge, and he never lived in a house with indoor plumbing until a
9th grader. He worked as a logger until joining the U.S. Navy’, then
spent a couple o f years at Oregon Technical Institute to learn the
machining skills that later would provide him with a living, follow
ing which he graduated from Portland State University in 1968.
A lifelong activist, Hayes devoted his life to uncovering crimes
and cover-ups o f our government. He had lived and worked in
Nicaragua supporting the Sandinista-led independence movement
Best known in the Portland area fo r his monthly Secret Government
Seminars and his work as lead reporter and editor o f the Portland
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