| Show v v r v’ ’V 'r ’' i H) The Salt lgko Tribune Sunday Mart h 27 19X8 Bullets Dump Piets Share Second Place t f Insecurity Drove Karl to Quit if E-- arriors Coach Developing Reputation as NBA’s Billy Martin W ' analogy may be a bit farfetched but for the past year George Karl must have felt like the fans of the old Kansas City Kings against the East heading into their oad trips this week The Jazz were the only Western team to go 0 2 against Philadelphia But the Jazz and the Warriors were strangely enough the only Western teams to go against the Cavaliers 10000 Or Bust: It seems the most popular thing to do in the NBA this season besides drawing a technical from Steve Javie is scoring your 10000th career point Two more NBA plavers Eddie Johnson of the Suns and Terry Cummings of the Bucks reached the 10000-poin- t plateau this week the 11th and 12th players to do so this year Those who preceded them include Kevin McIIale Calvin Natt Isiah Thomas Jim Paxson J B Car-roi- l Tom Chambers Cliff Robinson Rolando Blackman James Edwards and the Jazz's Darrell Griffith Note that all these players except Edwards and Johnson were draft picks Edwards was a third-rounpick and hung around until his 1 1th season to reach 10000 But Eddie Johnson who scored No 10000 on a technical free throw in the Suns-Jaz- z game at the Salt Palace Tuesday night reached his milestone in just "his seventh season That only underscores the fact that Johnson w as a terribly overlooked player in the 1981 draft when he was taken 29th bv the Kings Of the 28 players taken ahead of Johnson in that 1981 draft only four — Mark Aguirre Thomas Chambers The 1 ’ When a group of investors from Sacramento bought the Kings in 198 i nobodv believed the new owners pledges that they would keep the team in Kansas Ctiv Sure enough the franchise moved two years later And when Warriors Owner Jim ‘ t Fitzgerald brought Don Nelson into his organization as a vice president last summer most people sensed it was just a matter of time befoie Nel- I son betaine the teams coach And now that matter of time is about a week or so when it will almost cer- t ' tainly be announced that Nelson will roach the Warriors next year in the wake of Karls resignation Wednesday ’ Kail never the mod secure sort to begin with must have heard the footI steps Insecurity is about the onlv nio- five that could induce a coach with a to go to I contract through 1989-9management and request two more I vears as he apparently did Wednesday Although Karl told the San Fran-nsro Chronicle that ‘"I never asked for an extension” during the mara- thon meeting with management that led to his resignation the other par-- l lies involved disagree Whatever was said in that meeting Karl is gone and at the age of 38 is fast at work on a I reputation as the NBA s Billy Martin Thais who the Chronicle's Glenn Dickey compared Karl with when he wrote ' Like Billy he s great with the quick fix but has trouble sustaining success I Karl took Cleveland to In 1984-8the plavoffs for the first time in seven I years The next season he was hus- tbng a college job at Pittsburgh and was finally fired by 'he Cavs I Last season Karl took Golden State to the playoffs for the first time in 10 vears A year later he s looking for an extension to a contract that was atteadv extended last vear and was rebuffed Where s Karls next shot’ Well don t swallow the Charlotte rumors whole Even though he s a former Tar Z Heel Karl is also not on Hornet boss Carl Scheer s most admired list And if George couldn't handle the losing this year how will he handle it with an expansion team? 3 with Kail incidentally was the Warriors (including a playoff loss to the Lakers) since the moment he walked out of the Salt Palace last t Mav 3 with a startling playoff of the Jar Whal a difference a year makes' And if you re keeping score with V'C" - us the Warriors are now the fifth V’ NBA team to experience a coaching change since this season began and they are the 10th to change coat lies since the end of last season Stable business isn't it’ ' -- NBA Notes ’ ' ' ’ 5 ' ' - ' 17-5- 2 ' 4 3-- up-se- - t! A Muffler on Hot Rod: Jazz plav-bvannouncer Hoi Rod Hundley " play who has tried to juggle his broadcasl- ' ing and “coaching duties for some 3 time now may have gotten himself m a little trouble last week ’ Just after the final buzzer of the 1 Jazz's March 191h lossat San Antonio which was carried on the team's cable T station Hundley thought the mikes By had been cut when he was heard to is the worst ” At the time he said it the video portion of the broadcast was showing Jazz Coach utter “He Frank Lavden walking off the court Hundley who had questioned a late substitution by Lavden just moments before claims that he wasn't talking about Lavden when he made his comment ' I was talking about Mark Eaton) ‘ because we really " said Hundley w ere going to him at the end and a guy beside me said ‘Why didn't they go to Karl Malone and (Thurll Bailey9 said I don t know he s the worst' “ In any event Jazz President David Checketts who learned of the incident from Randy Rigby the team s vice president for broadcasting wasn t happy about it But he didn t want to reveal his course of action calling the matter “internal family business " ' I plan on talking to him” said Checketts Friday "1 plan on taking some action on it " Checketts says he s had meetings with Hundley in the past regarding what he perceives as Hundley's negative commentary Hundley whose tone voice takes on a nuclear-aler- t when opponents make their inevitable runs at the Jazz admits he finds it more difficult to control his emotions since the team has become respectable m the last several years In the old days he said "It was easy 1 ride with it I know we're going to get beat Pete Maraviehl gets 30 40 and we lose and I just ride on “ through it Not anymore Now Hundley says he just wants the Jazz to win ' so bad ” Sometimes it sounds like he thinks he s the only one 1 first-roun- d and Blackman special satisfaction 1 ‘ 1 it” Mack’s Back: Mack Calvin who was touch liltle guard for the Jaz in their first season in Salt Lake City was back this week doing some ad vance scouting for the Bucks Calvin is an assistant coach for the Burks under Del Harris and as such he has completed a rare hal trick He has coached on the high school college and pro levels in three successive seasons “I don't think anyone s ever done that’ said Calvin Mack coached Cherry Creek High record in Englewood Colo to a 24-two years ago was an assistant at the University of Virginia last year and is a Bucks assistant this vear This is where he wants to be B “I knew Del from my duvs and we maintained a relationship over the last five or six years ' said Calv in I saw him in Chicago and fold him how much I wanted to get back a e 7 6 last-plac- reaching “It w'as a goal that I really didn t think I could get after my first year m the league because I didn t play that didn t think I many minutes and " played as well as I could said John son Ever since then I ve been able to put points on the hoard and it s a great feeling to be able to sav you gol 10 000 points in seven vears in the league It feels good to know that I pretty much outplayed what others came thought I couldn t do when into the league and it s a great feeling to get that and to be recogmztd for Suns-Piston- s 7 in 10000 East S West: After Saturday and night s games there are only 12 more games left out of the 264 scheduled between Eastern and Western Conference opponents But there’s nothing left to decide in those final dozen The East rules decisively Through the first 250 East-Wegames the East holds a 134-11advantage And it might get worse since the remaining games are mostly encompassed in a trip out West by the Bulls and four-gamtrips back East by the Mavericks and the Rockets The East won by mercilessly picking on the four bottom Western teams The Clippers are against the East the Warriors and Kings are and the Spurs are the worst Eastern By contrast team the Nets managed to go against the West And Cleveland the team in the Central Division was against the West The best records against the East were posted by the Lakers 116-6- ) and the Nuggets (15-7- ) who were also the sweeps of the only two to register Celtics Dallas and Houston are 12-Jazz-Buck- s have reached — 10000 Many others — like Kevin Loder Ray Tolbert Brian Jackson and Howard Wood — have reached obscurity That's why Johnson took Krzv-zews- e 12-1- 2 2-- 0 6 control the clock and keep Temp'e from scoring easv baskets Danny Fern the son of Washington Bullets general manager Bob Fern won the regional s ''outstanding player” aw ard w ith 29 points hitting five free throws in the last 2z minutes to keep Duke in a cninfori able lead tournaKryzewski who has a ment record at the Meadow lands said he found Ibis victory was more grab fying than in 1985 when Duke ad vanced to the Final four after beating Navv in the Eastern Regional final Thai year we had a veteran team with players like Mark Marie Tom my Amaker and Johnnv Dawkins and everyone expi cted us to advance he said Bol tins year we did it with a team that continues to progress everv gan to find the range with his jump shot poise Kevin was as aggressive on of Tense as ve seen him all year” said “That one he took when I was we were leading by 10 ) yelling four' which is a signal to run a set plav and he fired this long jumper and then I m screaming Krzy-zews- 145-35- three three ' think that shot gave our whole team a shot of adrenalin " I also took the starch out of the who were hardly used to playing from behind ' ' You could sense it slipping aw a v said Evans the senior floor leader who played with a sore back in the last three games They were heating us to all the rebounds loose balls and guvs that usually don t score for them were making big shots Once (he Blue Devils gained con trol thev ri lied heavily on the leader ship of ujiperrlassmen Ferrv King and Strickland to maintain their II Owls — ADVERTISEMENT - Bullet--climbe- Unemployed George Karl Fast Starts Not Enough into the NBA as an assistant coach and I told hint what had been doing and finally things broke for me " Seaton Tickets: Jazz President David Checketts said he hasn t finalized the team's ticket prices for 1988 89 but he confirmed what the team s marketing veep Jay F’ranris told the Salt Palace Advisory Board last week — that ticket prices will go up “Without question there will be higher prices” said Checketts who will decide on a final ticket scale in about a week “We've held prices for two years in a row and yet we'v had a real increase m player costs " Checketts said the Jazz had about a $1 million increase in player salaries this year jumping the team payroll to ' roughlv $5 million He figures the of of those 12 444 each average price tickets to be about $10 which with a final season altendance of about 500 000 works out to about $5 mil lion in gate revenues That s what we depend on the gate said to do — cover player payroll Checketts 1 Quotable: The Suns Eddie Johnson who wants to make the plavoffs even though it would mean facing the Lakers in the first round “Everybody will probably say 'They'll blow 'em out in three straight games Well al least well get the opportunity to eel blow n out ' Pistons 108 Suns 103 At F’hoentx Isiah Thomas scored 12 of Ins 36 Depoints in the final six minutes and troit outscored Phoenix by 20 points from the foul line The score was tied eight times in the fourth quarter the last time at with 2 14 remaining Thomas -- hit a baseline jumper with 2 01 left to ahead to stay the Pistons put and Bill Laimhecr added two free throws Snnics 131 Clippers 98 At Seattle Dale Ellis scored 27 points and rookie Derrick McKey added a season-hig19 as the SuperSomcs posted their biggest margin of victory this season a rout of the undermanned Los Ange Celtics 118 Knicks 106 At New ' les Clippers Ken Norman scored 22 points for York Larry Bird scored 20 of his 31 the built Boston as half Clippers and Claude Gregory addthe first in points 21 ed a career-higa lead and coasted to a vic92- At Sacramentory over the Knteks Lakers 114 Kings to Calif rookie Kenny Smith scored Hawks 109 Cataliers 102 At Atlan30 points as the Kings a career-higta Dominique Wilkins playing with upset the Los Angeles Lakers the flu symptoms scored 13 of his 37 s they have beal first time in five points in the fourth quarter and led en the Lakers yeai a over1 to Hawks the victory Los Angeles was undermanned Cleveland Magic Johnson and Michael Cooper lead into the Atlanta took an 84-8with a strained groin final period but Cleveland tied the missed the game and muscle sprained ankle score five times before Dell Curry's 96-9respectively a Cavaliers the jumper gave edge with 6 36 remaining Wilkins Nuggets 131 Warriors 108: At Oakshot that followed with a three-poin- t land calif Alex English scored 29 put the Hawks ahead to stay and trigpoints to lead five teammates with at run least 21 pacing Denver to a rout of gered a Siate Golden Mavericks 131 Spurs 112 At 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