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Show ; Page G8 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, February Wall Street helping NBA r - SEATTLE (AP) Life as a Harlem Globetrotter gave Joyce treat"Juice" Walker ment in the finest hotels, luxury tours of some of the world's exotic cities and a salary in six figures. It also may have helped bring her drug problem to the crisis cue drug users who are near eviction. "It's trench work," said her boss, Geri Roubidoux, who urged the former Seattle prep star to help others with addictions. "The conditions some of these people are living in, you wouldn't stage. believe," Roubidoux said. "It "Every chance I got, I was takes a special kind of person to using," Walker said. "It was 10 work in this environment. If you times more available than it would haven't been there, you have more be if I wasn't in the limelight. sympathy than empathy." "If I didn't walk away, I would 'walker has been there. She behave lost it anyway. I knew people gan abusing her body while using it looked up to me, but I didn't feel to break records and take the good inside. I couldn't stay on the women's basketball road anymore." game to a higher level at Seattle's Garfield High School. She started Walker, 29, left the Globetrotters in 1989. Today she wears a with marijuana and moved on to button that reads "High Equals cocaine while in college. "I was breaking records'," defyHigh Risk" while she makes her rounds as a speing gravity, so it seemed OK," cialist for the Central Seattle ReWalker said. "No one ever told me , ' You have a problem Center. covery She played guard at Louisiana Walker works in apartment buildings maintained by the Seattle State University from 1980 to honors 1984, earning Housing Authority, trying to res red-carp- NEW YORK (AP)-N- BA players are asking Wall Street to help make sure they don't dribble away their money. In the first such deal in pro sports, Merrill Lynch & Co. has formed a plan that will provide monthly annuity payments to retired "pre-pensio- players until their pensions kick in at age 50. The program is designed to guarantee players an income after their playing days end. It was motivated partly by horror stories about players who squandered millions or had players and agents, who called it a forced savings plan that lowers the pool of money for potential contract increases. "They're saying you must save money because it's in your best interests to. do so," Leonard Armato, a Los An- - ' v.. '& ti I EST ? three times. She is still the scoring leader in the Southeastern " Ufcoifc Conference with 2,906 career v. .fi im f points. She was an alternate on the 1984 t S j Olympic basketball team and won' ' J in a tryout with the Globetrotters 1985. She lost out to Lynette Woo-dar- d that time, and spent two seasons playing in a women's profesI! sional league in Italy and West i t Germany. She tried out again with the Globetrotters, won the job and r v f . v, rhade her first appearance with the J club in Seattle in January 1988. I 1 Despite her drug problems, . 1 , , V Y the with Walker described her time Globetrotters as "the best time of my life." She was part of a team that could draw 25,000 spectators together in the middle of North Dakota. And her shooting and skills captivated the chil- dren who watched. .AP Laserphoto She played her last game a year later, and eventually returned to Joyce Walker is framed by screen door at Seattle's Central Recovery Center where she works helping other drug dependent people. Seattle. all-ti- et . f , -.-- . j - . Pjn tfrZ ng their earnings ripped off. But the plan by the National Basketball Players Association met strong opposition some H H players avoid the turnovers from 16, 1992 .. J ball-handli- ca 8wwBtfiwwiMaKassg3sa iiilnll ISiMilirgrBTTViriffilillMlIMiimilllll TffllMlwr geles sports attorney, said Friday. "Representatives are saying let us be the judge of that." But Armato, who represents Houston Rockets star Hakeem Alajuwon, also said: "Maybe historically the players association is right. There have been a lot of athletes who have ended up with no money between the ages of 30 and 50." The NBA's 325 players make $1 million a year on average, more than triple the level of a decade ago. But most NBA careers last only 4'2 years and many players are unprepared for life after pro ball. "It's a short life span," said Charles Grantham, executive director of the players association. "The intent is to educate our players and to make them aware of how they can most effectively manage the resources they're going to have over a limited number of years of playing." Up to 8 percent of the league's growth revenue money from television, radio and gate receipts is set aside under the plan. Players receive regular deposits into personal trust accounts based on their percentage of the league's salary total. Under the NBA's collective bargaining agreement, 53 percent of league revenue is allocated to players in salary and benefits. Money for the plan comes from there. The NBA's unique salary structure made the deal contentious. Teams are required to operate under a salary cap, which increases as league revenues increase. Monday, Feb. 17 'Tuesday, Feb. 18 Sunday, Feb. 16 Save $5 on Mini Blinds After $5 mfg. "ADVANTAGE" MINI BLINDS We can custom fit window lengths up to 1 1 4" and widths up to 122" in your choice of 40 mini designer colors. 217-ad- v " WIDTH I I 26-1- 8" 29-1- TO 21" TO 28" TO 29" TO 32" 13-1- 2" 21-1- 8" H 2i" $4 $7 $10 z 42" $7 $9 $11 $13 $14 $17 $13 $15 pre-pensi- Since the money is taken from funds earmarked to increase the salary cap. players will be negotiating new contracts from a potentially smaller pool. 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