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GAME 2
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Shaq, Kobe lead Los
Angeles in playoff opener
(AP) - The Portland Trail Blazers know they still
have a chance to steal homecourt advantage from
the Lakers.
Los Angeles won game one 95-87, and Game 2 is
Thursday night at Staples Center before the best-of-
five series moves to Portland a week from today.
The Blazers' goal is to win j ust one o f the first two
games.
“I think our guys are focused, 1 think they’re
ready,” said Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks after the
loss.
The coach said he was satisfied with the effort,
but dissatisfied with the quick shots the team took
in the second half.
Scottie Pippen said the game was a "lost oppor­
tunity,” but the Lakers worked all season to get
homecourt advantage.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his team had a
hard time in getting the ball to Shaquille O ’Neal early
in the game because the Blazers kept two or three
defenders on him.
Jackson said the team made up for it by shooting
from the outside in the second half.
Kobe Bryant had 34 points and O ’Neal had 25 as
the Lakers pulled away from the Blazers in the fourth
quarter in Sunday’s opening game.
Rasheed Wallace had 25 points to lead the Blaz­
ers.
Portland trailed by ten points in the third quarter
Scottie Pippen (left) defends the Lakers’ Kobe
Bryant during Sunday's playoff game. (AP photo)
Abdul-Jabbar’s first win will
have to wait. The Storm blew a 14-
poin t se c o n d -h a lf advantage
against the Dodge City Legend,
then rallied for a late lead before
losing 98-97 on Tim Pledger’s two
free throws with 7.5 seconds left.
“I didn’t like the outcome, but
my guys worked hard and tried to
pay a tte n tio n ” said A bdul-
Jabbar, the N BA ’s career scoring
leader. “W ejust made some men­
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“I don’t know if any o f you
ever saw Coach Wooden coach,
but he tried to do all ofhis coach­
ing before the gam e,” Abdul-
Jabbar said. “That’s my goal,
but I have a long way to go
before I reach those heights.”
“I love this game, he said.
"It’s been good to me, and I think
1 have some things I can give
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but rallied to get within 68-67 early in the fourth, after
a turnaround jum per by Wallace and a three-point play
by Derek Anderson.
But the Lakers slowly built their lead after that,
outscoring Portland 27-to-20 the rest o f the way.
After Bryant’s jum per gave LA a 12-point lead, the
Blazers fought back again, getting within 87-82 with
just under 4:30 to go. But Portland couldn’t get any
closer.
Bryant started getting hot in the second quarter,
when he was guarded by the supposed “Kobe Stop­
per,” Ruben Patterson.
Kareem Loses Head Coaching Debut
(AP) Thirteen years after his
retirement from the NBA, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar can still put bod­
ies in the seats, even when he’s
sitting down.
A standing-room-only crowd
packed the Dodge City Civic
Center on Sunday night to watch
the Hall o f Famer make his pro­
fessional head coaching debut
with the United States Basket­
ball League ’s Oklahoma Storm.
Momei Qu of
Wilson High
School returns
a serve during
a tennis match
with Cristin
Sammis of
Cleveland last
week. Portland
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Harrington said he will be dis­
appointed if he is not on the
field opening day.
Harrington also said he would
keep the name “Joey” even after
Lions president Matt Millen said
it d id n ’t seem like a good nam e
for an NFL quarterback in a blue-
collarcity.
China’s 7-foot-5 Star
To Enter NBA Draft
(AP) Yao Ming, a 7-
foot-5 center from China,
has been cleared to enter
the NBA draft.
His current club, the
Shanghai Sharks, made the
announcement after Yao
helped it win its first Chi­
nese Basketball Associa­
tion championship Friday.
"W e want him to go to
a team that has a chance to
play in the playoffs in the
NBA in two or three sea­
sons. I think that will be
China's tallest player Yao Ming
good for his d ev elo p ­
stands 7 feet 5 inches. (AP
m ent,” Sharks general
photo)
manager Li Yaomin told
China’s official Xinhua News Agency.
Yao has been projected as an NBA lottery pick, possibly No.
1 overall.
“It’s exciting,” NBA commissioner David Stem said Sunday
night before the Detroit-Toronto game. "As a league, to see
world-class players coming into our league from Latin America,
Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Asia is an exciting
thing for our league.
"And to think that there will be a generation that will grow up
watching their countrymen play in the NBA, I think speaks well
for our growth and development. I think it makes the competition
in our league extraordinary tough, and it raises the level greatly,”
Stem said.
Indian Mascots Boycott Urged
(AP) — A group has col­
lected signatures from about
half the law students at the
University o f Oregon, asking
the school’s athletics depart­
ment to boycott games against
teams with American Indian
mascots.
The Sport and Entertain­
ment Law Forum is also asking
UO student athletes to pledge
never to accept an offer from
professional teams that use
American Indian nicknames,
such as the W a sh in g to n
Redskins.
Frank Silva, a UO law stu­
dent and m em ber o f the fo­
rum, said he hopes a m ajority
o fh is class o f about 500 will
sign before the resolution is
subm itted to UO President
Dave Frohnm ayer for consid­
eration.
“ It’s a statement o f solidar­
ity from our school,” Silva said.
Ifsuccessful at the UO, Silva
hopes to begin circulating the
resolution nationally and to put
pressure on universities and
even professional teams to drop
the names.