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Show The Suit Lake Tribune Sunda, March 4, 1934 D9 Cavs Free Likes To Shoot, Talk - EE I DfcNVER What the Jazz were doing this weekend is supposed to be one of the more difficult doubles in the league playing nights in Denver and Salt Lake City, no matter which comes first Of course, it's not so bad on the Jazz and Nuggets because they're mortised to the altitude Five other teams have played the Utah Denver backto-backe- r this season and really h'Jven t done badly New York swept, Boston and Indiana split, and San Antonio and Cleveland got swept in dose games Bui after the Cavaliers lost the seqppd half of its pair at the Salt Palace Friday night. World Free commented, Running up the floor the first couple of times, I hit my first( two jumpers But then I was looking up for some air 101 PJ E rc i back-to-bac- k taken, but we're talking about a Utah team, not a Nevada one Besides, there's a big difference between amateurs and professionals making $600,000 a year What are you going to offer them to make it worth their while to throw a game1 We think the (Gaming) Commissioners understand our views and will side with us " lie found enough oxygen, though, to go on and burn the Jazz for 30 points in a fine outside shooting performance World is not only one of the league's more delightful players to wptch, he is also a delight to interview He's certainly not afraid to talk', win or lose Some of his other comments after the,zz-Cav- s game .I'fext year, we're going to be dynamite. We've reached a plateau this year We're just letting the NBA know that Cleveland will be a team to reckon with " kfiickey Green is an improved bafl3yer I told that to all the guvs on team I said, 'He can shoot tharjsketball" Hes the difference on team Moses Speaks: The often-sileMoses Malone granted an interview to Playboy because, he reasoned, " rep, and it Playboys got a good " gives you good pub Included in the Sir me Oil Vegas: Well, the Jazz hatfCtfiade their commitment to Las Vew They announced last week tha&hey will play some games there' next year (maybe not 11), provided they arent forced out by a possible March 15 Nevada Gaming Commission decision to allow gambling on Jazz games in Vegas The Jazz made their pitch, pointing out the positive things they have brought to the Las Vegas community, including the fact that the average attendance at the seven Vegas games (8,242) would rank 16th m the NBA. But, believe it, there is another side to the gambling issue that will be decided March 15 After the Jazz held their press conference last Monday, the Las Vegas Review-Journcontacted Vic Salerno, the president of the Nevada Race and Sports Book Association and the leader of the bookies' fight to legalize gambling on Jazz games He sounds serious in his opposition We are sick of being made out to be the bad guys in this thing," Salerno was quoted as saying. "Why should we change our rules for another industry1 Why can't they coexist with us1 We dont want somebody coming in from another state telling us how to run our business al Gaming built this town There's more illegal gambling going on in Madison Square Garden every night the Kmcks play there than there is legal gambling in the whole state of Nevada And when somebody in Las Vegas bets a Jazz game with an illegal bookie, hes going to bet more than just the one game, and that's taking money from our pockets All the Jazz are doing is taking revenue out and maligning us When it comes to us making money off them, it's a whole different deal We re the victims m this "Their Mr Stern (the NBA commissioner) said he didn't like the idea of point spreads, so we went so far as to suggest there just be betting on the Jazz to win or lose, but he wouldn't go for that either They don't want to cooperate with us It's traditional and bv Nevada statute that bets on UNLv aren t interview were some observations on Salt Lake City, where he came to live when he was 19. as he jumped from high school to the Utah Stars "My first year was tough Basically, I was homesick I don't have nothing bad to say about Salt Lake City, but I didn't have too much to do there The whole city's surrounded by mountains and lots of people go skiing, but I never got into that . . Most of the players on the Stars especially the older ones like Ron Boone and Gerald Govan treated me like I was their kid and they were my daddy They'd tell me, Moses, you can't do this and dont do that, and I listened to them They always told me the right thing to do. " they never told me the wrong thing CBA Convention: The Continental Basketball Association, which has given us the seven-poin- t system (by which teams get points In the standings for quarters won) and the sudden-deatovertime (first team to three wins), is thinking of another innovative rule a copy of hockeys penalty shot In hockey, the penalty shot is a delightful rarity, called only when a player breaks m alone on a goalie and is tripped up from behind by an opponent, he then gets to go with the goalie The CBA idea is that, when a player breaks away for an uncontested layup or dunk and is intentionally fouled from behind, then the often-siv- e player would get to go with the player who deliberately fouled Just clear the court and let with 24 seconds to get him go a shot off Any basket he makes would count three points h Final Shots: A recent survey of plov- er gomes missed due to lnury or illness showed that the fortunate Jazz are third from the bottom In the league The teoms with the most player games missed were Los Angeles and Atlanta . . . The Warriors may be moving back across the bay from Ookland to Son Francisco. The San Francisco Examiner reported lost week that the Warriors hove been unhappy with their negotiations for a new lease with the Ookland Coliseum; the current one expires after next season The Warriors don't get a cut of parking and concessions at the Col'seum shades of the Jazz at the Salt Palace . . . Phllly Coach Billy Cunningham said It after the Sixers' win over the Jazz Wednesday night I've seen enough of them (the Jazz) to know this team Is not a fluke and Is going to be a team that will give people fits when the playoffs come . . ." The Jozz's Adrian Dantley may miss Wednesday's game In Boston, as he will attend the funeral of his great grandmother, who has died at the age of 103 . RfllMHIDn ONE WEEK ONLY WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE YOUR TRANSMISSION SERVICE CENTER IN THE FUTURE. 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