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Show Page D4— THE DAILY HERALD,Provo, Utah, Tueslay. May 1996 Turning pro has few By KEVIN B. BLACKISTONE ked out Dallas Morning News NBA seasons. it Kobe Bryant was reared upper middle-class home. He went io a high school tha ed him an excellent scholastic vith rN Playe' Juwan How t He is fluent in Italian fi The Bryant, c Washington's ho left Michigan Ke nd earnedhis le the NBA, show living abroad sible to eo back He passedthecollege ent basketball play- exam with an above score. He could have attende nost any college he wanted, esp- p. As Cowboys back Emmitt Saturday, when he 92M cially giventhat he als sideredthe best schoolboy bask k ball player in the country aduate back to for any pro son Several national put Hon namedthe 6-€ Lov Merion H Philadelphiaas their nat 1 of the year Bryant, instead, chos REA te i NBA sec school hockey : y ee 105 yers. who Capnan na Flonishouldn't ect for ear- Kids th when, citing his inability to que ty academically for an athletic scholarship, he made a simils announcement four d fte Bryant’s : N 1 cue Gy jj, L they. haven‘t classroom. But earn morein stieveryone he RA NBA rule vine ah \ k Ow a I C terribly | kids or leaping to surrender lescence classmen are at us to i e superstar. Even Bill Willoughb scence often cited as the failed exa Holyfield needs knockout performanceagainst Czyz NEW YORK. (AP) Fo {v heavyweight champion Evande lolyfield knows exactly wt expected of him whe e fights Bobby Czyz on Fr realizes will fights » ! ht nothing acceptable “This is one of that I've had. that 1 AP Photo Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, from left, Ljerka Cosic, the widow of BYU's Kres- ago, t c said by his “No sy, I By JEFF DONN Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, Mass NBA scoring masters George Gervin and David Thompson. who were both shadowed by drug abuseoff the court, took the final stepin their rehabilitation The basketball world was finally forgiving — if not completely forgetting — by enshrining themin the Hall of Fame on Vion. *ht This year’s other Wr ste ere Los Angeles guarc Goodr ch. early jump- shot cialis’ George “Bird U.S. Olympic medalis Lieberman-Cline and the late Yugoslav star Kresimir Cosic ardley. the first NBAplayer to score 2,000 points in a season with his 2.001 in 1957-58. said the drug recoveries of Gervin and Thompson show that “lifeis bigger than baskethall sometimes.” It must have been part of my destiny fo awaken meto . . a better andturn it aroundtoa positive. I think George and I have both done that,” he said as Gervinsat nearby. “You would hope that someday you would get past it.” Gervin and Thompson, a Baptist who credits his faith for much of his turnaround, both now work in community programs that give them the chance to steer young people toward goodchoices. life.” Gervin said Monday before his induction. Hecalls his recovery his personal Hall of Fame Gervin, the “Iceman” of San Antonio and Chicago,turnedhis cool finesse and i ger roll” shot into } tides in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982. They are surpassed only by Michael Jordan's eight titles and Wilt Chamberlain's seven. But Gervin’s road and style were rougher off the court Raised by a single mother in Detroit, he turned pro in 1972 tter punching an opponent and vsing his college scholarship. While at San Antonio, he went into drug treatment Thompson, who fought a cocaine habit as # pro and did a brief prison-camp stint at the timefor beating his wife, admitted to initial doubts about ever making the Hall of Fame ~The only way to deal with a problemis to contront it head-on You've got to take the negative On Monday, though, basket- ball lovers were remembering the 6-foot-4 Thompson mainly for his 44-inchvertical jump. for leading North Carolina State to the 1974 NCAA crown, andfora 73-point gamefor Denverto take the lead in the 1978 race for the NBA scoring title A few hours later, though, Gervin scored 63 for San Antonio andcapturedthe scoring title by a hair with a 27.2 per-game average. “He should havelet me have that one, because he has three others,” Thompson said Monday Like Thompson, Goodrich was a college champion: he helped UCLA win the NCAA tide in 1964 and 1965, Unlike Gervinor Thompson, Goodrich capped his career with an NBAchampionship in 1972. That Lakers team wona record 33 straight gamesand also set a standard with 69 wins until Chicago's 72this season. But Goodrich knows he got considerable help at Los Angeles from Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, among others. Lieberman-Cline. a powerful scorer and passer, rocketed a good share of assists to future Hall of Famer Anne Donovan at Old Dominion. Lieberman-Cline helped lift the team to national championships in 1979and 1980. Cosic, a Croatian who died of cancer a year ago at age 46, played for Bngham Young and became the first foreign All American. In 1980, he boosted the Yugoslav Olympic team to a gold medal Ex-Red Sox managerarrested on cocaine charge By JOANN LOVIGLIO Associated Press Writer PAWTUCKET, R11 Former Boston Red Sox manager Butch Hobson was arrested on a cocaine Possession charge. police said Monday Hobson, 44. was arrested Satur day at The Comfort Inn in Paw tucket where the minor league team he manages, the Red Barons of Wilkes Barre-Scranton. Pa., were staying during a two-game weekendseries against the Paw tucket Red Sox Authorities had a search war rant and seized cocaine at the hotel, police said, but they refused to answer questions about the time of the arrest or how muchcocaine was seized Hobsonwas arraignedat police headquarters andreleased on personal recognizance. He stayed in Pawtucket overnight and returned Sunday afternoon to man PhiladelphiaPhillies’ Triple Hobson managed the PawSox during the 1991 seasonandtook ov er the managing job for the Red Sox from 1992-94. He wasfired in 1994 His record was 207 -231 in three seasons, including thestrike-short ened 1994 campaign Hobson played in the majors from 1975 to 1982 A third base: man, his best season was withthe Red Sox in 1977 whenhehit .265 with 30 homeruns and 112 RBIs After he stopped managing the Red Sox, he held a brief tenure as coach of the Mobile, Ala. BaySharks, then announced he was moving fo manage the Wilkes Barre-Scranton team for this sea son. In October, he said he hoped to get back to the majors \ loss . look good because in pe I'm supposeto w Holyfield (31-3) is at least to-T favorite. Czyz (44-6 i he 1 5 I heavy < for cam World Boxing Bruce Seldon { 1996 ly 13 UMAN 5 f a Sunerio k that had to World é Holyfield also knows Wt have that luxury “My wholething and George Gervin pose prior to induction ceremonies in Springfield, Mass. the few guy out real well.” Holyt Monday. “If you don’t, vor OK at it th year-old fighter that he does f anytime you punching imir Cosic, George Gervin, Gail Goodrich, Nancy Lieberman-Cline, David Thompson Gervin, Thompson head Hall of Fame cast y kids like ke such se Instinct suggests to us ha something wrong when you Woae 5, decide inst ang eXxpens es’ paid college ion for chanceto grab the wealth g dom of pro basketball. Somet! we tell ourselves, must be done The uneasy truth, howeve that it all rings holiow Most of the few boys who ¢ ) from their prom t did so without Moses Malone the Hall of Fame. Da becameone of the s colorful players. Shawn Kemp is See seen zh ond high schoo! player in the two seasons to anne e he would skip collegealtogether for pro bas ketball Jermaine O'Neal, 6-11, of Eau Six-eleven Kevin Garnett. whomO'Neal echoed, was chosen last June out of Farragut Academy in Chicago by Minnesot fitth pickin thedraft. G ast ing spot by season's end Short memories tell us that what Garnett pulled off was < markable as it was foolish. and at what Bryant and O Ne decided to dois just plain after hig n for s who every directly to the he Claire, S.C... became the CORES weit s He is expected to be tirst 10 players chosen but seem to eck w attend the 1996 NBA Drat month, shortly af Bryant. son of former player Joe Bryant, became & is , RACE ht ike Mike | Fore said py dif 'm not at my best. | got Ay |]TH CCAUS be ready to fight good f Because Holyfield hi not a natural-born he and lacks the pune others in the divisi taught him that every oj potentially dangerous o} It’s only natural for n 8:90 am. guMAN RACEgi VES on aoe catosdays May 11, 1996, , ss ; 10 gather Pleg, Walk,—unt « favorite Charitiag Ses “ang ie oy embers the ant (0 raise money oe Roger Reid’s 1996 aus at 9:00 a. ™. at Nove: Basketball School sh + The* ForInformation and/or Application, Call Now, Limited Enrollment 372-0986 Spanish Fork High School DAY CAMP:June 24-27, 1996 Saturday om ding = w s Be ge Wilkinsoi. 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