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Show Jackson, who won six championships with the Michael Jordan-led Bulls, has been brought in to be a younger players on their roster, but they are ready to give the nucleus chemistry professor, and get the of Reggie Miller, Rik Smits, Mark Jackson, Chris Mullin, Dale Davis and Derrick McKey one more try for a championship. Smits, whose talent to mix properly. Unless O'Neal and Bryant are each ready to sacrifice a few points per game foot problems have hampered him the past two years, hinted this sea- son mightbehislast, so the Pacers have somepressure to get a championship now, before the rest of top contenderstatus. Sacramento Kings: The Kings scared the dayli beforelosingin thefirst roundlast season, see in the playoffs. The talent of Jason Williams and Predrag Stoja- power forward Chris Webber is undeniable, and youngsters is the latest example of the old of the best centers in ti Kings adagethat it takes more than talent to win titles, Despite having Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and NBA, earning All-NBA First Team sti tusforthefirst timein 1999. If the Anderson in the backcourt could Heat can keep Tim Hardaway and Voshon Lenard healthy (neither was healthy for the playoffs last year), the Heat could get back to Unlike so many of the v laden NBA title contenders, the to lose. Milestones —— Utah's Karl Malone is primet: for anotherrunat the title. high 25 points twice (2/15/99 vs. Sacramento and 4/1/99 ys. Houston). + Malone recordsthethird tripledouble of his career when hetallies 29 points, 12 rebounds and 10 Energy assists (5/4/99 vs. L.A. 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Phil and movesinto fifth place on the NBA’s all-time field goals made list (4/30/89 at Houston). * Stockton records his 13,000th career assist (4/17/99 vs. the L.A, Lakers). * Malone reaches 20,000 field goal attempts (4/1/99), moving into eighth place all-time with 20,301 by season’s end, and becomes only the third player ever to attempt 10,000 free throws (3/11/99 vs. young the rebuilding job is undertaken in fuli force. Glen Rice on board, the Lakers were swept in the Western Confer- * Malone scores his 28,000th this Divac, is a team nobody wants to eliminatedin the first round ofthe playoffs each of the past two seasons after reaching the Eastern Conference Finals in 1997. Alonzo Los Angeles Lakers: This team Continued from Page G-4 and aided by veteran center Vlade offtheir scoring averages, the Lakers won't go any further than a round or twointhe playoffs. The only Spato receive 4 best buy awards. west 'YTON SALT LAKE il: solariums 1986 N.Hillfield Rd. 2392 S. 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