| Show Standard Exammer -- Sports NBA PLAYOFFS Centertnc (Best--7- smtaafe ) (Times MOT) Fnaay's mu 0 Hnana 97 Phuaoeevna 86 mtona toads tenet Saturday's tames Utah at Portland 1 pm San Antonio at LA Lakers IX pm Sunday's games tncfiana at Phnadetohm 1230 om Atlanta at New York 3 pm San Antonio at LA Lakers 5JQ pm Utah at Portiand 830 pm Menday's game Atlanta at New York 8pm Tuesday's game LA Lakers at San Antonio TBA If necessary Portland at Utah TBA Wednesday's game Philadelphia at tnoana TBA if necessary New York at Atlanta TBA if necessary Thursday's game San Antonio at L A Lakers TBA If necessary Utah at Poitiand TBA if necessary Friday's game Indiana at Philadelphia TBA If necessary Atlanta at New York TBA If necessary Saturday May 29 LA Lakers at San Antonio TBA If necessary Portiand at Utah TBA if necessary Sunday May X Philadelphia at Indiana TBA If necessary New York at Atlanta TBA If necessary PACERS 97 76ERS BS At Percentages: FG 375 FT 607 3 point peats: 200 (Iverson Snow Hughes 1 Blocked shots: 2 (Ratliff 2) Turnovers: Lynch 11 (Snow 3 Lynch 3 Iverson 2 Getger Hughes Ratliff) Steals: 14 (Lynch 4 Hughes 3 Ratliff 3 Iverson 2 Snow Hiii) Technical fouls: None Mtepal defense: None 28 21 26 22-- 97 Indiana 22 19 25 20-- 86 Philadelphia :14 A -- 20930 (20444) - 1 I I 1 j) NBA NEW YORK Voting for the 1998-9- 9 Coach of the Year as selected by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters from the United States and Canada 48 Mike Dunleavy Portland 23 Larry Brown Philadelphia 15 Jerry Sloan Utah 13 Chuck Daly Orlando 8 Pa! Riley Miami 4 Gregg Popovich San Antonio 4 Paul Silas Charlotte 1 Karl Milwaukee George 1 Butch Carter Toronto 1 Wilkens Atlanta Lenny NBA Coaches of the Year 1963 — Harry Gallatin St Louis Hawks 1964 — Alex Harmum San Francisco Warriors 1965 — Red Auerbach Boston Celtics 1966 — Doiph Schayes Philadelphia 76ers 1967 — Johnny Kerr Chicago Bulls 1968 — Richie Guerin St Louis Hawks 1969 — Gene Shue Baltimore Bullets 1970 — Red Holzman New York Knicks 1971 — Dick Motta Chicago Bulls — Bill Shamnan Los 1972 i Angeles Lakers 1973 — Tom Heinsohn Boston Celtics 1974 — Ray Scott Detroit Pistons 1975 — Phd Johnson Kansas Kras 1976 1977 — Bill Fitch Cleveland Cavaliers — Tom Nissalke Houston Rockets 1978 — ’ 1979 — I 1980 — 1981 — l2 1983 — — ' 1984 — : 1985 — 1986 — 1987 — 1988 — 1989 1990 — - 1991 — 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 — 1997 — 1998 1999 — — — — — Hollis of elimination The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Different building same result The Indiana Pacers are just as calm’ serious and devastatingly effective no matter where they play With 29 points from Reggie Miller and a meticulous attack befitting their playoff experience the Pacers moved one game away from sweeping the Philadelphia 76ers with a 97-8- 6 victory in the Eastern Conference semifinals Friday night Miller who thrived once again on taunts from the crowd and bounced right up from a couple of hard fouls buried the Sixers with a 7 that gave Indiana a lead with 3:11 left after Philadelphia got within four points The Pacers who survived late runs by the Sixers in Games 1 and 2 did the same for the final three quarters of Game 3 This time they never gave up the lead and can sweep Philadelphia with a victory in Game 4 on Sunday “It’s beautiful I love it” Miller said of the fans who spitefully chanted his name early in the game “I can’t play at home I play much better on the road” Allen Iverson led the Sixers with 32 points but needed 33 shots to do it After he cut Indiana's lead to 3 with a three-poiplay with 9:38 left the Pacers picked Philadelphia apart with a 16-- 4 run “I got caught up in the game and I tried to do too much” said Iverson who flipped the ball disgustedly after stepping out of bounds in the final minutes Iverson was from the field falling 15 shots short of the NBA playoff record for field goal attempts held by Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry Matt Geiger Philadelphia’s had 11 points but starting center at did not have a rebound in 27 minutes As a result Indiana is one win away from their fourth trip to the conference finals in five years The Sixers face the task of coming back from a 0 deficit which no team has ever done in a seven-gam- e NBA playoff series “We might as well be first” Sixers coach Larry Brown said with little conviction “I didn’t like them hanging their heads at the end We’ve done a lot of good things in this building I just hope we have a chance to bounce back and extend them” Miller decked by Geiger and then Tyrone Hill said “I’d be surprised if we come close to sweeping them I’m sure Coach will give them a Knute Rockne speech” Indiana lulled the Sixers to the brink of elimination with balanced scoring Chris Mullin 77-7- nt Hubie Brown Atlanta Hawks Fitzsimmons Kansas City Kings BiH Fitch Boston Celtics Jack McKinney Indiana Pacers Gene Shue Washington Bullets Don Nelson Milwaukee Bucks Frank Lavden Utah Jazz Don Nelson Milwaukee Bucks Mike Frateiio Atlanta Hawks Mike Schuler Portland Trail Blazers Doug Moe Denver Nuggets Cotton Fitzsimmons Phoenix Suns Pat Riley Los Angeles Lakers Don Chaney Houston Rockets Don Nelson Golden State Warriors Pat Riley New York Knicks Lenny Wilkens Atlanta Hawks Del Hams Los Angeles Lakers Phil jack son Chicago Bulls Pat Riiev Miami Heat Larry Bird Indiana Pacers Mike Dunleavy Portland Trail Blazers Cotton EARLY NBA DRAFT ENTRIES Harold Arceneaux juror f Weber State Ron Artest sophomore f St John's William Avery sophomore g Duke Jonathan Bender HS senior c Picayune H$ Jazz 3-- said “For rt 91-7- k? J MILES KENNEDY L0N& AND SHORT OF IT: dunks the ball Ratliff during Friday night back-to-bac- k games you think it might come out a split looking at it that way which would be fine with us “You play the first game and there will be adjustments that will have to be made again and either way win or lose you get to bounce back 24 hours later” Malone however said their approach in the first game has The Associated pess Indiana Pacers’ Rik Smits Philadelphia 76ers’ Theo action in Philadelphia on in front of first-quart- er had 15 points - 10 in the third quarter - and Mark Jackson had 11 points and 10 assists The Pacers snapped Philadelphia’s home winning streak dating to the regular season absolutely oblivious to what longtime courtside observers said was the Sixers’ loudest crowd in at least 30 years “This doesn’t bother us” Jackson said “It’s not like we haven’t been in these situations be10-ga- fore” Geiger and rookie Larry Hughes both had emphatic dunks and Philadelphia cut Indiana’s lead to 77-7- 3 on Iverson’s three-poiplay with 9:38 left The Pacers’ response? Much like their coach Larry Bird used to do Stay cool Jackson loosened up the defense with a and Jalen Rose hit a jumper after Indiana swung the ball beautifully twice Jackson backed in for an easy basket Dale Davis dunk- all this while ed and Miller hit a the Sixers went 5 minutes without a field goal - for three of Indiana’s uncharacteristic 19 fastbreak points The Sixers had three nt to be more than just looking for ried on after Thursday’s victory celebrating on the court and “We have to win a game up there but I hope we don’t go up there to say we just want to win one” Malone said “Our approach is to go up there and try to win both of them” And that is the focus the Jazz will try to bring into today’s game “Don’t worry about splits” taunting a split From 43 hind 1 in a series is tough to overcome “It’s hard to beat a team twice in two days” Jeff Homa-ce- k From 43 shove the Jazz into a 1 hole that even the most valiant of veteran postseason warriors would have a heck of a time climbing out of In fact it’s only happened six previous times in NBA playoff history ad“Obviously home-cou- rt vantage is in their favor now and now we have to go up there and win some” said Karl Malone “You can’t be intimidated now They came into our place They wanted to get a game and they did and now we have to go to their place “To win (the series) we have to win on their floor” Malone said “We realize that It’s going to be tough we realize that too” The Blazers were 22-- 3 at home this season - the same record as Utah - but one of Portland’s three home-coulosses came against the Jazz back on March 12 by a score of 7 So while they’re wary of what two losses would do to their hopes the Jazz can remain somewhat confident as well “They’re a good team and they’re going to be ready to go up there” said John Stockton “We can’t rely on the fact we have beaten them up there before (Today’s) another day” The Blazers are well aware of the golden opportunity But they also realize that team like against a playoff-teste-d the Jazz this series still has a long way to go “We’re real happy to get this one (Thursday) and go home” said Blazers’ guard Greg Anthony “Game 3 is the biggest one because you could lose all this momentum “We need to stay focused because we haven’t in the overall scheme of things in this series” Anthony said “We haven’t accomplished a whole lot yet We still have a lot of work to do as they do” They go back to work today and again on Sunday night It’s tough duty for any laborer Now the Jazz and those weary old legs of theirs must prove they’re up to the task - or their summer vacation could get started sooner than they had planned 3-- 3-- COACH OF YEAR I Pacers pound 76ers to brink 93-7- F Percentages: FG 500 FT 684 peals: 333 (Miller 6 Mullm 8 Jackson Rose 1 Perkins Blocked shots: 5 (A Davis 2 D Davis 2 Perkins) Turnovers: 20 (Best 5 Jackson 4 Mullin 3 Smits 3 Rose 2 McKev A Davis D Davis) Steals: 9 (Rose 4 Mullin 2 Miller A Davis Smits) Technical foots: None (legal defense: None PHILADELPHIA FG FT Reb j Saturday May 22 1999 5B Stockton said “don’t worry about anything except going in and try to win this game on Saturday Lay it all out there play as well as we can and let the chips fall where they may” You might not know it from the way the Trail Blazers car the Delta come up big on the boards and that kept giving them opportunities which made it hard “We’re not used to being beat off the boards They did a good job of it and we’ve got to start controlling it at some point if we want to win the series” The Jazz had their own problems in that game particularly Center crowd but they realize they have a lot more work to do “We know it’s far from over” Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said “All we did was shift the home-cou- rt advantage We’re going to have to play better than we played down the stretch to get the win” Dunleavy’s biggest concern 7 is Utah’s advantage in rebounding in the series Dunleavy was especially concerned with Utah’s 13 offensive rebounds in Game 2 “The offensive boards hurt us he said “They were able to their 18 turnovers Cutting down on that number is their biggest concern “One of the things that killed us was turnovers” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said “We turned the basketball over way too When you’re many times playing in a playoff game like this that’s too many” 95-7- DOUGLAS PIZACThe Associated Press Portiand Trail Blazers coach Mike Dunleavy shown here in Thursday’s game " against the Jazz was named coach of the year on Friday FOR WORK: HONORED Dunleavy honored for teamwork The Associated Press PORTLAND Ore - It was only natural that Mike Dunleavy accepted the NBA Coach of the Year award Friday with a little awkwardness All season long his job was to persuade the talented Portland Trail Blazers that they had to put aside their own goals and egos to ' win “It’s a little embarrassing to me” Dunleavy said as he accepted the Red Auerbach Trophy at the Rose Garden “I just hope our players understand that this is really a team award and that I’m really proud of them” Dunleavy said his voice wavering slightly and bis eyes getting misty “I look at it as an award for being the most improved team” Dunleavy received 48 of a possible 118 votes from a panel of NBA sports writers and broadcasters Philadelphia’s Larry Brown was second with 23 votes followed by Utah’s Jerry Sloan (15) In his second season with the Blazers Dunleavy faced a challenge that most coaches envied: how to integrate the deepest most athletic roster in the league Emerging stars like Damon Brian Grant and Rash-ee- d Wallace were coaxed into making room for role players like Stacey Augmon and Walt Williams The free agent signings of veterans Jim Jackson and Greg Anthony made the Blazers even stronger but opened the door for unrest over playing time With only a few incidents of grousing the team held together and won their first Pacific Division title since the 1991-9- 2 Stou-dami- Mississippi Carl Boyd junior f California Elton Brand sophomore f Duke Nikola Dacevic f Limoges France Edwin Daniels sophomore g UNLV Baron Davis sophomore g UCLA Giorgos Diamantopoulus g Papagou Greece Antonis Fotsis f Panathmatkos Greece Steve Francis motor g Maryland Shaw UniverDwayne Franklin sophomore Alpine Gardens is the place to shop sity Dion Glover redshirt freshman g Georgia Tech Richard Hamilton junior f Connecticut Rico Hams motor f Cal St Northridge Hrvote Hemak c Spht Croatia OeeAndre Hutett freshman f College of the Sequoias Gmiherme Joanoni f Pinheiros Brazil Kendnc Johnson freshman g West Hills College Jumaine Jones sophomore f Georgia Shawn Kenney sophomore f Cleveland St Andrei Kirilenko f CSKA Moscow Russia Lamont Long mrnor g New Mexico Corev Maggette freshman f Duke Jamaal Magiwre motor c Kentucky Shawn Marion motor f UNLV Michael Maxwell iumor g Western New Mexico Greg Minor Iumor g Cal St Northridge Lamar Odom sophomore f Rhode Island Olumtde Ovedew c Nigeria Josko Pokak c Spkt Croatia Aieksandar Radotevic sophomore c Barton County CC Igor Rakocevtc g Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia Gene Shipley freshman c San Jose City College Leon Smith HS senior f ML King HS Chicago Tvron Triplett sophomore o Tallahassee CC Kostas Tsartsaris f Near East Greece Albert White tumor f Missouri Trees Shrubs Bedding Plants We grow our own to ensure quality and provide you with a great selection of unusual varieties as well as your old favorites! and for: Flowers! 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