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Show ------~----- - -- · - - · IIl41 NATIONAL SPORTS THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 19?7 .. DIGEST DUNLEAVY NAMED TRAIL BLAZERS HEAD COACH: Mike Dunleavy, who has known great success and crushing failure in six seasons as an NBA coach, was hired yesterday to coach the young, talented and som etimes temperamental Portland Trail Blazers. " Of all the jobs that were possibilities this year, this is by far the greatest opportunity," Dunleavy said. Mike Dwileavy "The reason I'm here is I want to win a champio nship." Dw.tleavy has a 208-284 record as a coach, first in two winning years w ith the Los Angeles Lakcrs, then in four losing seasons with the Milwuakee Bucks, where he was coach and general manager. He led the Lakcrs to the NBA Finals in his first season as a head coach, but was 25-57 in 1995-96, his last as coach at Milwaukee. He served as general manager for the Bucks last season . Dunleavy, 43, said he accepts responsibility fo r his 107-221 record with Milwaukee, but believes he could have succeeded had he not been fo rced to relinquish his coaching role. He said he was contacted by four teams about coaching jobs in recent weeks. "Thro ughout the league, m y nam e has appeared in almost every job that came up," Dunleavy said. "There's a reason fo r that. People who know baskctbalJ, I think, respect m y ab ilities. They know how hard I work and they kno w me as a person." Dunleavy, who played in the NBA for 11 seasons, said Portla nd has the potential to be a title contender. " I think this is a team that within the next couple of years you have the abi lity to challenge anybody at any level," he said. "That's the thing that's very exciting about this opportunity." NO WORD YET FROM PITINO ON BOSTON GM JOB: Fonner Portland Trai l Blazers coach P.J. Carlcsimo said yesterday that coach Rick Pitino has not offered him the genera l manager's job with the Boston Celtics. " Rick hasn't talked to m e, but as usual in the NBA that doesn't stop the rumor mill," Carlesimo told TNT before an NBA playoff game between the Seattle Supersonics and the Houston Rockets. The New York Post reported yesterday that Pitino, hired to coach the Celtics on May 6, made the offer shortl y after Carlcsimo was fired by the Trail Blazers May 8. T he two are friends and fo rmer Big East rivals - Pitino coached Providence while Carlesimo was at Seton Hall. Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss said yesterday that the team had no comment on the ·repo.rt. "YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK" With tuition costs and living expenses constantly rising, the price of a college education may seem out of sight. The Utah Army National Guard has programs that can bring the cost of a college education into focus. • ?art-time job with great pay and full time benefits • Paid skill training • Montgomery GI Bill entitlement of over $7,000 • At least $6 - $8/HR starting Joining the Army National Guard does not mean putting off college. You con serve in your own commwlity while attending classes. Let your recruiter show you that your education is closer than you think! UTAH ~-· DD ..586-9402 I I Bulls end Hawks playoff hopes fo ur rebounds in the fi rst four gam es of the CHICAGO (AP) - Dennis Rodman swished 3seri es, the flamboyant six-time NBA pointers, made a n o-look pass, blocked rebo unding leader had 12 points and n in e Dikembe Mutombo's shot and rebounded like a rebounds in 33 demon. By the time his min utes yesterday. inevitab le ejection Jordan scored 24 came, Rodman had points for the Bulls, already energized the who next play either Chicago Bu lls into th e N ew York or Miami . Eastern Conferen ce New Yo rk leads that finals. series 3-1. Rodman, who had Whe n he entered become a non-factor in midwa y thro ugh the the playoffs because of first quarter, Rodman his overly aggressive - usually cheered play and the apparent loudl y at the United overzealousness of Center - received referees, upstaged even th e silent treatment Michael Jordan as the from fans who defending NBA apparently had grown champions won l 07-92 tired of a playoff act last night to eliminate that has fea tured 33 the Atlanta Hawks in fouls in eigh t games. five gam es. But he quickly got Of course, D ennis his 36th birthday the Menace cou ldn' t celebration rocking stay comp.letely out of and bro ught the trouble, drawi ng two .,, 24,544 fa ns to their technical fo uls with ~ fe~t by making a 32:44 to play afte r a c.. pointer. scrap with Mutombo. ~ Soon, th e Bulls were He was ejected fo r the :S ro lling toward the third time in the ~ conference finals for playoffs and picked up ~ the seventh time in his I 0th and 11th ~ the last nine years. technicals, but by the Ch icago went on to time it happened the Chicago Bulls' Scottie Pippen slams one home w in titles in 1991, ou tcome h ad already over the Atlanta Hawk s during the fi rst quarter 1992, 1993and 1996 been decided. of their playoff game yesterday, in Chicago. The - Jordan's last fou r After averaging 17 Bulls elimina te the Hawks in five games. minutes, one point and - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - full seasons. Seattle beats Houston, Jazz get rest the games we lost . I told Geo rge (Karl ) I was in a HOUSTON (AP) - The Seattle Supersoni cs kind of a rhyt hm and he ran som e plays to me. " figured o ut a way to h alt Houston 's 3-point " I' m embarrassed the way we played," profi ciency an d gai ned another chance to stay Rockets forward C harles Barkley said. a live in their seri es. " Everybody is going to m a ke excuses and tell us Seattle made a key defensive switch, pu tting what we did, but we were just terrible Gary Payto n on Matt Malo ney, and the Son ics offensively and we had held the Rockets to a 5no effort defensively. for-27 effort from 3-point They ca m e out and range in a 100-94 victory kic;kcd our butts. " in Ga m e 5 last night. Seattle o utshot It cut the Sonics' deficit Ho uston 48 percent to 39 to 3 -2 in th e best-of-7 percent an d withstood a series, with Gam e 6 set 3 1-point, l6-rcbound fo r to mo rrow. perform ance by Hakecin " We didn't get close to Olaj uwon and a 26-point the looks tha t we effort from Cl yde needed," Rockets coach Drex ler. Rudy To mjanovich said. " You can' t be more " It's a hu man game, guys proud of t he effort," Karl have great gam es and said. " We went to a very guys have games where aggressive m ode. We' re the ba ll doesn' t go in." reach ing that point in the Hersey Hawkins scored seri es where energy is 23 points, including four sometimes hard to fin d. 3 -pointers, Payton scored ~ We reached .in and fo un d 2 1 points and Shawn ~ it." Kemp added 20 for the o H ousto n's best outside Sonics, who are seeking shooters, Mario Elie and to becom e the sixth team in NBA history to 0 M aloney, were a ~ combined l -fo r-15 from successfully com e back ~ the field, O-for- 11 3 point from a 3-1 deficit. attem ps. "Gary played good " We gave him som e gam e and I played a good Shawn Kemp shoots over Charles Barkley respect and put Gary on ga m e," Hawkins said. " I during the second quarter of their Western Conference semifinals game yesterday. The h im , 11 Karl said of made a lot of shots Sonics win gives Hous ton only a 3-2 lead. Maloney. to night that I missed in § |