February 23, 2000
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inside.”
“It’s a great feeling to win nine in a row,” Pippen added. “It’s
tough right now in this stage because it’s tough to keep your
momentum but we have to battle through right now, playing
these below-.500 teams and try to continue to better ourselves.
Duke's Dunleavy out with mononucleosis
A ssociated P ress
Duke freshman guard Mike Dunleavy
Jr. will be sidelined for an indefinite
period because o f mononucleosis.
Dunleavy was averaging 9.5 points,
4.2 rebounds and 25.2 minutes a game.
“I feel badly for Mike,” Duke coach
Mike Krzyzewski said Monday. “He
was ha v ing a great year for us and has
been an integral part ofour team. We
know he’ll get better with proper
treatment. We look forward to having
him back before the end o f our
season.”
Dunleavy, the son o f Portland Trail
Blazers coach Mike Dunleavy, has
been the first player off the bench for
No. 3 Duke this season. No other Blue
Devil reserve had been averaging
more than 10 minutes a game.
Larry Bird says he prefers Pacers
A ssociated P ress
Larry Bird doesn’t know what he’ll be
doing next year. He just knows it
won’t be with the Boston Celtics, the
team he led to th re e NBA
championships as a player.
“I’ll tell you again, I’m not going back
there,” Bird said Monday of Boston.
“As far as being here, I really don’t
know yet.” Bird saidifhedid become
an NBA owner, he’d prefer the Indiana
Pacers over the Celtics.
“I’d rather buy this team, because of
this place,” he said in reference to the
new Conseco Fieldhouse, which has
had a capacity crowd for every game
this season.
Lonth
Black History Month
SHiRLSlltKEK
The most frightening aspect o f the Portland Trail Blazers’
potent attack might be their willingness to share.
Arvydas Sabonis led six players in double figures with 19
points as Portland used its overwhelming balance to cruise
past the Boston Celtics, 105-92, improving their season-high
win streak to nine games.
The Blazers, who posted their 15 straight triumph at the Rose
Garden, boast five players who average double figures in
scoring and eight who put up at least 6.8 per night.
“Portland’s talent level is very, very deep,” Boston coach Rick
Pitino said.
Tonight, Rasheed Wallace scored 16 points, Steve Smith 15,
JermaineO’Neal 14, Scottie Pippen 12 and Damoun Stoudamire
10 as Portland beat Boston here for the seventh straight time.
“We got good performances from a lot o f people,” Portland
coach Mike Dunleavy said. “(Sabonis) gave us good minutes
and he has been doing it lately. I thought Jermaine gave us a
lot o f good energy and good minutes. He was a presence
M
But the Indiana native, who returned
home to coach the Pacers, doesn’t
believe he’ll own either team.
“The Pacers are not for sale, the
Celtics are not for sale. 1 know that, I
knew that eight years ago that they
w eren’t for sale,” Bird said. “You
can’t buy something that’s not for
sale.”
C onsistently voted the m ost
valuable player in NBA history,
William Fenton Russell (born
1934) led his University o f San
Francisco basketball team to
two NCAA titles, while suffering
only one loss in his college
career. He was chosen Most
Outstanding Player o f the 1955
NCAA Tournament and was a
member o f the 1956 United
States Olympic basketball team.
So dominant was Russell as a
re b o u n d e r th a t the NCAA
adopted what was known as the
Russell Rule: at the end o f 1955,
the NCAA doubled the width o f
the fie ld goal lane, from six to
tw e lv e fe e t. S till, R u sse ll
dominated NCAA rebounding.
B ill R u sse ll has m ore
championship titles than any
other American athlete in major
sports. As a Celtic, Russell led
the team to eleven NBA titles,
beginning in ¡957. Russell was
named Most Valuable Player o f
the N a tio n a l B a sk e tb a ll
Association in 1958, but was
not named by sportswriters to
the all-NBA team. He also won
the M VP award in 1961, 1963,
and 1965 and the NBA All-Star
Game MVP award in 1963. For
the 1966-67season, Russell was
nam ed player-coach o f the
Celtics and later coached the
Seattle Supersonics and the
Sacram ento Kings. He was
inducted into the Basketball
Hall o f Fame in 1974 and chosen
to the NBA 25,h Anniversary All-
Time Team in 1970 and the 35'h
Anniversary Team in 1980.
JACKIE ROBINSON
“I
Bill Russell succeeds Arnold "R ed” Auerbach as coach o f the Boston
Celtics and becomes the first African American head coach o f a major-
league sport in the United States, 1966.
ROSA PARKS
HARRIET TUBMAN
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
TAKE PRIDE IN HONORING
MY ANCESTORS,
MY HERITAGE,
MY HEROES.
DAMON STOUDAMIRE
IT IS THROUGH
;
THEIR COURAGE AND SACRIFICE
THAT I AM ABLE
TO FULFILL MY DREAMS.”
DAMON STOUDAMIRE
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS GUARD ANO COMMUNITY ADVOCATE
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H elp celebrate ...
HONOR THE TRUE TRAIL BLAZERS IN BLACK HISTORY.
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