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Show I f 1 Donnie Freeman fined $1000.00 for "conduct detrimental to the Utah Stars". 1st. Stars slip past cage foes rife i. firmly announced they were holding to their contract with Freeman. Jeff Congdon was traded to the New York Nets Thursday after noon shortly after the Stars announced the trade of Tom Workman to the Denver Rockets. Both trades involved future, high draft choices in return. nut ": BY RICK SORENSEN : Sports Editor rtrr- Donnie Freeman's $1000.00 ne and the trading of Tom Work-lan Work-lan and Jeff Congdon augmented !r'j': le firey finish of the Utah Stars-i'it! Stars-i'it! exas Chaparrals game last night ' I i a rather dreary first half turned ito an unexpected barnburner, o I-, f ter tying the score at sixes the ' exas team mounted an offensive which the apparently tired Stars j; 3uld not counteract. Sauntering ong at a lackluster pace the Stars lr lowed the Chaparrals to take a i, si, 6-22 first quarter lead which ":3r: rew into a 56-43 point spread by alf-time. j vl Dick Nemelka's spirited play l 'as the only bright spot for the rf tars the first half as he came off le bench to score nine points. However, Coach Bill Sharman pk mst have done something note- 'orthy during intermission as the ; a': tars rallied to take the lead 72-71 km n a jump shot by Mike Butler. iJi: rom that point on the teams aded baskets and the lead until ICl'fcie Stars opened up a 101 to 95 ;d ftad with five minutes remaining. fnS -he Chaparrals came back to tie it 'fP at 107's after which with less n is lan two minutes potted four ' oints and the "scat back of the pack," Nemelka, swished a 27 foot hook shot at the buzzer to ice over the victory. Of interest, Vince Boryla, president-general manager of the Stars, fined Donnie Freeman for what he termed "conduct detrimental detri-mental to the Utah Stars." From what this writer could gather after the dust had settled there were more issues at hand than just Freeman's "misconduct." Mr. Boryla inferred that the dust' arose from an injury which has plagued Freeman for a good part of the season. Evidently the management man-agement of the Stars felt it better that their top guard not aggraviate his injury further, thus jeopardizing jeo-pardizing their player's health and their financial investment should Freeman's injury become mere serious. So, Freeman has spent a great deal of time sitting on the bench, to his dismay. Apparently Freeman wants to play regardless of the annoying knee ailment since that is what he is paid to do. Not being fact but rather a composite of this writers observations observa-tions Freeman countered by deciding to be too ill to play and then "asking to play according to contractual agreements or traded." The Stars management |