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Show DAI LY Friday, March 5, 2004 MElAYJ HE RAID Star of the day MSMEBALL Sacramento's Chris Webber scored 24 points and had 1 0 assists as the Kings beat PWladefohia, 1 14-- 1 05. NBA STANDINGS Webber; leads Kings past 76ers Eastern Conference ATLANTIC DIVISION Mike Garafolo THE ASSOCIATED W PRESS Two games into his Chris Webber is playing like he's in midseason form. Webber had 24 points and 10 assists and 27 points, Peja Stojakovic had a team-hig5 leading the Kings to a victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Webber was playing his second game of the season for Sacramento, which has won three straight and nine of its last 10 on the road. He had 26 points and 12 rebounds Tuesday in his debut after missing nine months to rehabilitate his knee and serve , an eight-gam- e suspenPHILADELPHIA return from knee surgery, 27 ' m&W "L Washington 114-10- to make my ex- - New York Str L10 75 35 .435 11 .419 12 26 36 .419 12 H' 38 .387. 14 20 39 .339 1612 .270 2112 H'Ml Orlando - GB , '36 SaaonTiS h sion. "I try JlzH Miami Pet L tewtesc? Home 1--1 "2-- 1 7 W-- 1 5 W-- 3 W8 W-- 1 2 l 14-1- 6 7 l-- 6 16-1- 4 27-1- 0 0 20-1-6 8 4 ; i W-- 3-- com Away 21? . 4 17-2-2 10-2-2 , 2 6 ' '9-2- 4 2 13-2-9 CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pet 45 ,16 .738 Detroit 39 25 .609 Milwaukee 33 28 541 Indiana . pectations high," Webber said. "I've been working hard. I've been waiting to get back to this point. It's hard for me to take it KINGS 114 like everybody wants 76ERS 105 me to take it and ease back into it." Allen Iverson rebounded from Wednesday's shooting performance to 32 for the Sixers, who score a team-hig- h have lost six of sevea Kenny Thomas recorded his sixth straight double-doubl- e with 15 points and 13 rebounds. With Webber on the bench for the last half of the third quarter, the Sixers ran off a 13-- run that cut the lead to one. Philadel7 advantage with phia had a short-live- d 1:09 left in the quarter, but Sacramento regained the lead on a jumper by Stojakovic and a layup from Mike Bibby. After a free throw from Iverson, Brad Miller hit a 3 at the buzzer to stretch the lead to four. , Webber had seven points and three assists during a 14-- 3 run that opened the fourth quarter and put the Kings ahead by 15 with 8:24 to play. The Sixers pulled within six in the final minute, but Bibby made five free throws to seal the game. Bibby had 2 1 points and Miller added 19 for Sacramento. Webber and Stojakovic combined to go 16-- f or-1- 7 from the line. "Time will tell if (the Kings) are the best (team)," Sixers interim coach Chris Ford said. "Certainly the way they play the game, it's fun to watch them. I know that even if I'm over there taking a drubbing, you have to be impressed." Webber said after the game that, although his knee is not 100 percent, there was very little pain or stiffness. He noted' his lateral movement on the defensive end is not yet where it should be. But on the opposite end of the floor, it was typical Webber.' The offense ran through him and, when he was not in the game, the Kings struggled. With Webber on the bench, the Sixers outscored Sacramento 4940. "I'm just amazed at him," Sacramento coach Kick Adelman said. "The two games he's played, he's played at a very high level. He's shot the ball well. Tonight, he had 10 assists. And I thought he had a couple of L10 712 12 64 64 6--4 ' 33 28 .541 12 26 35 426 19 9 Cleveland 25 36 .410 20 64 20 41 328 25 3--7 18 43 795 27 , . v ' Heme 29-1- 0 W-- 1 26-1- 5 l .23--8 l-- Conf Away 24 W-- 3 New Orleans Chicago Str 8--2 Toronto Atlanta , - GB . W-- 1 1 10-2- 0 20-1- 7 14-1-5 0 W-- 1 26-1- 4 24-1- 2 3 VI 13-1-7 5 4 1 3 Western Conference MIDWEST DIVISION Minnesota 44 . 17 .721 - San Antonio 40 21 .656 4 Dalas 50 W Pet L Memphis 37 24 .607 Houston ,34 26 J567 Denver 33 29 .532 31 30 308 13 CB , . , ... Utah 0 , , 8-- 412 39 21 ' Str L10 GB Home 24-- 7 W-- 21-- 3 3 284 7 24-1- 4 6 6 13-1-6 0 3 1 7 8-- 912 5--5 W-- 20-1- 0 23-- 8 0 2 12 11 Conf Away W-- 1 2 9 ' W-- 4 6-- 10-2-0 0 18-1-9 PACIFIC DIVISION 79-7- W L Pet 45 15 .750 39 21 29 32 Seattle 27 Golden State 25 Sacramento LA. Lakers ' Portland - .650 ' .' Str L10 6 1612 34 .443 1812 34 .424 1912 5 46 LA. Clippers 25 35 .417 20 7 Phoenix 21 41 339 25 7 Press huge plays around the basket when he got the offensive boards." The Kings held a 5 lead 7:57 into the game before Webber was taken out. Iveratson, who missed his last 18 field-gotempts in the previous night's loss in New York, hit his first four shots and scored 12 points in the opening quarter, including six during a 134 run that closed the period and cut the lead to three. k Anthony Peeler and Bibby hit 3s to spark a 12-- Sacramento spurt early in the second that helped the Kings relead. Stojakovic had nine gain their of Sacramento's last 1 1 first-hapoints to help make it 6147 at halftime. The Kings had 22 assists on 22 first-hafield goals, while shooting 55 percent and going f or-- 9 from beyond the arc. 27-1- back-to-bac- 0 lf lf 6-- Sacramento swept the season series and has won seven straight against the Sixers. I Notes: Philadelphia F Glenn Robinson was booed when he exited the game late in the first half. Robinson, who missed two games over the weekend with elbow synovitis, did not return after experiencing more pain in were negative and he will the joint. be evaluated today. G Aaron McKie played a three minutes. ... Sixers general season-lo' manager Billy King addressed the fines levied against Allen Iverson for missing a practice and a game in the last three weeks. King, who had been silent on the issue, said Thursday that he fully supports the fines and interim coach Chris Ford's decision to bench Iverson for the start of a Feb. 17 loss in Denver. "If I didn't, you would have heard by now," King said. 0 22-- 6 6 18-1- 0 4 2 6 3 18-1- 1 25-1- 1 16-2- 3 2 3 14-1-6 W-- 1 5 5 TODAY'S GAMES WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS GEORGE WIDMANAssociated Conf Away 27-- 5 W-- 1 .475 Atlanta at Orlando, 5 p.m. New York at Toronto, 5 p.m. Washington at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Dallas at San Antonio, 6 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Cleveland .at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Cleveland 112, Atlanta 80 Washington 84, Toronto 70 Milwaukee 105, Orlando 97 New York 88, Philadelphia 77 Minnesota 121, Dallas 97 New Orleans 100, Chicago 97, 0T San Antonio 88, Seattle 84 Phoenix 87, New Jersey 74 LA Lakers 96, Houston 93 Memphis 97, Portland 88 Indiana 101, LA Clippers 94, 0T Sacramento's Chris Webber, left, attempts to block the shot of Philadelphia's Samuel Dalembert (1) while the Kings' Vlade Divac comes over to help defensively Thursday. Home W-- 3 8--2 Indiana at Utah, 7 p.m. Seattle at LA Lakers, 8:30 p.m. New Jersey at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. SATURDAY'S GAMES at Miami, 1:30 p.m. Memphis at LA Clippers, 1:30 p.m. Chicago at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Denver, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Utah at Portland, 8 p.m. Sacramento THURSDAY'S RESULTS Miami 104, Milwaukee 98 Sacramento 114, Philadelphia 105 Detroit 83, Portland 68 NBA SCOREBOARD 30. PISTONS 83 TechnlcataD 68 TRAIL BLAZERS Mason 14.336 Alston. A (19.600). CONFERENCE GLANCE DETROIT (83) Pnnce 12. 2 14. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This time, the Miami Heat didn't collapse in the fourth quarter. Rafer Alston tied his season high with 23 points and Caron Butler added 21 to help the Miami Heat hold off the Milwaukee Bucks 104-9- 8 Thursday night and snap a e losing streak. first-haMiami wasted a lead, letting the Bucks rally to tie it 98-a- with 1:09 left in the game. Lamar Odom broke the tie with a free throw for the Heat, and his runner from the lead with left side gave Miami a three-poi24 seconds left. "This was a good education because we're going to have a lot of games like this," Odom said. "We will take this experience, watch the film to see what we did well and apply it to the next game." On Tuesday, the Heat blew a lead and scored a season-loeight points in the fourth quarter in a loss to Toronto. 20 Rasual Butler scored a season-hig- h points off the bench for Miami, which pulled into a tie with idle Boston for the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern ConferMIAMI four-gam- lf ll w ence. Odom finished with 16 points, seven re- bounds and nine assists. Alston, getting extended playing time with rookie Dwyane Wade out with an in3-jury, made eight of nine shots, including He also had eight assists of 4 for against just one turnover and five rebounds. "The good thing was that I wasn't just line waiting for standing around the someone to kick it out," Alston said. "I didn't want to pass up opportunities to get to the basket." Alston's performance impressed his coach Stan Van Gundy. "His game will rate out about as good as you can have," Van Gundy said. "He was incredible. He played a phenomenal game for 43 minutes." Keith Van Horn scored 22 points and Michael Redd added 21 for Milwaukee, which had its four-gam- e winning streak 4 last snapped. The Bucks beat Miami week. Milwaukee won the first of games, beating Orlando 105-9- on Wednesday. But the Bucks started sluggishly in the first two Thursday, falling behind minutes. "We started off completely flat, and we haven't done that in a long time," Desmond Mason said. "The Heat took advantage of it. We had opportunities to take the game over. When it got down to the stretch, they made a few more plays than we did." The Heat raced out to leads of 3 at 108-10- back-to-bac- 7 9-- 39-2- k James 2 0. Milicic 1 Eastern Conference 5, lndiana Jersey Patterson 4. Ratlitf 1 8. 0 2 3 4 1 Davis 10. 0 Woods 68. 0. 2 Totals Gill New Orleans New York 27 Toronto 26 26 26 25 24 20 20 8. 4 Miami 18 14 19 13 83 68 1 25 Philadelphia Washington Atlanta 62-5- Hunter 3. Billups Fowlkes 6. Milicic James R Wallace Portland Anderson (Woods Miles Dickau Patterson Stoudamire Fouled out None Rebounds-De- troit 57 B.Wallace 19). Portland 42 (Davis. Randolph. Ratlilf 6). Assists Detroit 22 (Prince 6). Portland 13 Detroit 17, Patterson 4). Total tout (Stoudamire, Portland 19. A 20.243 (19.980). Boats 82-7- Detroit (Prince 114, 76ERS 105 KINGS (114) 8 27. Webber 21. Christie Stojakovic 6. Bibby Peeler 24. 4. Miller 6 7, Buford Totals San Antonio Robinson 0. Green 0. Konrer Sacramento Philadelphia 31 30 28 1 23 33 1 (Green Dalembert. Philadelphia 32 (Webber Philadelphia Defensive Three Seattle State (20,444). MILWAUKEE (98) Van Horn 22. D.Mason 98 16. 9 00 2, Strickland 7. Totals 31 IS, 0 5. Haislip 69 5 2 96. being cleared Thursday to practice without restrictions. Malone sprained a ligament in. his right knee Dec. 21 and landed on the injured list for the first time in his career. He has said he'd like to play Monday, when the Lakers visit the Utah Jazz, his former team. Also Thursday, backup center Horace Grant was diagnosed with a strained hip flexor. He wont play today against Seattle or Sunday against New Jersey! and will be reevaluated next 10-d- (104) Sutler 8, Alston 20. Haslem SA 23 39 26 21 29 22 LAL Pieree. Bos. 45 62 60 55 52 Tor 61 Martury. Cassed, Mm Randolph. Port James. Cktv 60 60 58 56 LAC Maooette, 62 59 55 63 Den. ' kid. Po FG 0. contract for missing 10 games while on suspension for violating terms of his alcohol treatment program. Baker was due to make $35 million. The NBA has issued a memo to all 29 teams barring them from signing Baker until his arbitration case against the Celtics is settled. ' The New York Knicks, ' Toronto Raptors and Miami in Heat are interested Baker, according to his agent. The NBA explained that it issued the Baker memo because if he wins his arbitration case, his contract would be reinstated and he'd return to the Horn 1 Milwaukee 3. Strickland 7 (Alston Hasten Mtaoandi Kukoc Jones Redd E Jonas 1 4. FMrtait-V- an RButter 0o Milwaukee (0 98 104 O'Neal. LAL Blount Boa. Van Yao. Hou. Miami DampterGS Jamoon, Dal C Butler Horn. 45 (Van Horn 7). Miami 48 Milwaukee 17 (Strickland (Grant. Odom 7). AnUo) Miami 22 (Odom 9). Total tda 1BP Milwaukee 24 25 27 29 12 512 1 6 6 812 11 13 1412 1612 1812 1912 20 25 , 431 FT PTS AVS 342 314 314 257 1636 27 7 1161 27 1480 1507 24 7 281 1251 23 2 196 299 397 270 260 232 277 222 1264 1032 1421 230 22.9 22 9 1328 22.1 1171 21.3 1102 21 2 1273 20 9 1242, 23 1239 1196 207 207 206 204 20 4 236 394 298 260 146 322 1141 1262 1195 1060 1190 0 255 203 193 189 percentage Nana, Den. rHi 12 Butler OO 20 22 484 457 343 464 476 418 408 462 480 498 456 345 454 467 400 Bryant Anthony. R 3. Walker 54 55 16. Grant 7 621 NO. 104 Totals ' Celtics. 21. Odom 23. E Jones 61 43 Sac. GarnetLMina Rnley.Datl. 4 58 572 396 493 59 Stoiakovic. Carter, Santiago 21,0 Jones 4, Redd 20 21 Mtfdi 3 Scoring S' F8 McGrady.Ori. Iverson. Phil. N Y. Malone getting ready for return to action week. Forward Jamal Sampson will have surgery Tuesday on his right ankle to remove scar tissue, team spokesman John Black said. I Jaa sign Moore for remainder' of season: The Utah Jazz signed center Mikki Moore for the remainder of the season on Thursi day, conMoore had two tracts with the Jazz in January and February and averaged 3.6 points and 2.9 rebounds in eight games. On Wednesday, the Jazz 21 NowlQta.DaH C Karl EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Malone is close to returning to the Los Angeles Lakers after 25 Redd. Mil. MIAMI ASSOCIATED PRESS 25 Through Duncan. 8 HEAT 104, BUCKS 19 1912 1912 teader Davis. Tachnfcab 18.798 A Second. 21 29 27 114 105 10). Total 22 flveraon 10). Philadelphia 27. 22. Philadelphia 12 NBA LEADERS Sacramento 1 7 (Bibby Miller Peek Philadelphia Fouled out Salmons 2. Korver Rebounds Sacramento 39 (Miller 7). Sacramento 52 (Dalembert 15) AssM Sacramento fouls .656 .650 650 .607 567 .532 508 .475 .443 424 .417 339 31 SoUt Stojakovic 21 Portland 32. 30 25 721 Utah Golden 9 Pet 750 17 Denver 105. 0. Totals 9. 2 L 15 37 34 33 14. McKie 8. Hamilton Salmons 2. McCask 12 18 68 W 45 4 40 39 Laken) 15. Dalembert 10. Iverson 20. Snow 43 46 21 Clippers Phoenb: (105) 0 4. Thomas 41 Dallas LA PHILADELPHIA 12 .541. 435 426 .419 .419 .410 .387 339 328 .295 .270 36 36 39 17 Memphis Houston Divac 712 Western Conference LA SACRAMENTO 712 .541 18 Chicago Ortando O'Neal, THE 39 33 33 Cleveland 27 18 Detroit Portland Kukoc cleared a roster spot by placing Matt Harpring on the injured list with a knee injury. Harpring had surgery on his right knee Jan. 16 and is expected to miss the rest of the seasoa I Hearing scheduled for Baker: Vin Baker will get a hearing Monday to determine whether he is eligible to sign with another NBA team. Dan Wasserman, spokesman for the players' union, said Thursday that arbitrator Roger Kaplan will conduct the hearing in New York. The union filed a grievance on Baker's behalf last month after the Boston Celtics terminated the final 2 12 seasons of his 37 Milwaukee 5. 9. Cook Dickau the end of the first quarter and 6049 at halftime. Milwaukee chipped away to start the third quarter, closing to 8 in the first three minutes. The Heat built their lead back to 10 points, but the Bucks cut it to 8 at the end of the period. Redd and Damon Jones sparked the Bucks with 10 points each in the third. Pistons 83, Trail Blazers 68: At Portland, Ore., Rasheed Wallace was treated more teammates in his warmly than his former return to Portland. ' The volatile Wallace made his first trip to the Rose Garden since Portland traded him away and helped his new team, the Detroit Pistons, to an easy victory. Wallace heard a mixture of boos and cheers from the crowd when he was introduced, but it was nothing compared to the jeers showered on the Trail Blazers when they went into the half trailing 46-2The Blazers, who trailed by as many as 25 points, have lost four straight after a streak. Wallace's return came on the heels of former Blazer Bonzi Wells' first Portland appearance with his new team, the Grizzlies. Wells, who was roundly booed, had 28 points as Memphis beat the Blazers 97-8Wednesday. Wallace had 13 points and nine rebounds for the Pistons, who have won five of their last six. Chauncey Billups had 16 points. Gadzurtc NOTEBOOK 45 Detroit PORTLANO (68) 1 2 Miles 1 8 2, Randolph Anderson 0 8. Stoudamire 6 Pet .738 .617 .609 W 9, Ham 2. Totals 0 83. Heat stay strong in fourth, defeat Milwaukee ROUNDUP R Wallace 12. 16. Hunter 13. Billups Williamson 0. Fowlkes 5 Wallace B 5), 22, Miami eoonr.Om Brand. LAC Mitar.Sac Gamett Mam. ' F6 365 237 243 383 273 348 323 339 291 621 F&A PCT 623 427 452 717 523 672 628 660 570 1250 586 .555 538 534 .522 .518 .514 514 ' 511 497 Utah County Community News nwJtarktheherald.com |
