Show Nrirww" Monday May 20 1996 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sonics don’t expect another blowout Sports snapshot SEATTLE (AP) — Another blowout? Who said that? Certainly not the Seattle SuperSooics a team that doesn't want to put a foot in its mouth because of past playoff stumbles “I think all die guys know that Utah is a great team and Game 1 was a fluke” coach George Karl said Sunday opening-gam- e Coming off a the Sonics try to make victory Saturday it 0 over the Jazz in the Western Conference finals tonight Seattle will be going after its eighth consecutive playoff victoiy Gaines 3 and 4 will be played in Salt Lake City on Friday and Sunday ’‘Utah's going to play a great game” Karl said “They have a lot of pride Tm almost certain it's going to be a fourth-quart- game” Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton out- 2-- AP photo Corey Pavin raises his arms after his birdie putt on the 18th green won the Colonial PGA Tournament in Fort WOrth Texas Sunday afternoon Rookies dominate the field at Indianapolis 500 — The INDIANAPOLIS rookie-fille- d (AP) Indianapolis 500 lineup was completed Sunday with three more qualifiers and a veteran who hasn’t raced an Indy car in nine years Starting at the rear of the fastest lineup in Indy history next Sunday is Danny Ongais who will take over the Team Menard car in which Scott Brayton qualified Brayton who won the pole position for the second straight year was killed in a crash during practice Friday With the qualification Sunday of veteran Hideshi Matsuda and rookies Scott Harrington and Joe Gosek the lineup w ill include 17 drivers who have never competed at Indianapolis the largest rookie crop since 1919 and 1930 Richard Krajicek hits 300th home run ATLANTA (AP) — Fred McGriff b in The Zone So b John Smoltz McGriff hit the 300lh homer of hb career and Smoltz became the first nine-gawinner in the majors Sunday leading the Atlanta Braves to a 9--5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds “Have you ever heard the term ’living in a tree?” asked Chipper Jones who was with two RBls for the Braves! “That means your playing so far above your head it’s not even funny That phrase certainly applies to McGriff and Smoltz and probably the entire team Marme -5 62-2- cut Muster successfully defended his Italian Open title Sunday beating Dutchman 6-- 12-fo- ot ear-splitti-ng Austria's Thomas 3-- 6 10-seco- who-shoots-it-l- Muster owns Italian Open — ROME 6-- 4 er McGriff CHICAGO (AP) — The hyped matchup of Chicago and Michael and Scott ie against Orlando and Shaq and Penny wasn't supposed to start like this Certainly it would be dose maybe even a type ending But in Game 1 the Bulb had the Worm factor they had a better bench they dominated the rebounding like no could have predicted and they had an crowd to spur them on “The game turned lopsided which we never anticipated" Michael Jordan admitted after the Bulb’ resounding 121-8- 3 victory Sunday The numbers were staggering The Bulb behind the play of Dennis Rodman dominated with a 8 rebounding edge with 20 offensive boards to only six for Orlando Forget that the Magic missed 16 of 24 free throws once afford in the again displaying the weakness that teams couldn’t the the boards Bulb off postseason They just keep “That's the best I've seen a team play in some time If we can not bring the rebounding edge doner we wont have a chance Tuesday either" said Magic conch Brian HUL “We had no idea it would be so Rebounding b effort and concentration We’ve got to figure out how to get Nick Anderson and Dennis Scott involved” The Magic might also have to find a way to rebound and win without Horace Grant who twisted his elbow in the third quarter after a collision with Shaquille O'Neal were negative but Grant was in pain after the game and could miss Thnday night's Game 2 Grant struggled even before the injury as did Anderson and Scott The trio combined for just two pouitvjxusaing all 11 field goal attempts and had only eight rebounds — 13 fewer combined thu the tattooed Rodman 38 scored and 27 O'Neal but the Bulb’ Penny Hardaway defensive strategy worked on Orlando's other three starters Chicago didn't double team every time and therefore was able to keep Grant Anderson and Scott from getting wide-ope- n shots that hurt the Bulb badly in the playoffs a year ago when Orlando ousted them in die second round “Those two guya (Hardaway and O'Neal) scored basically all their points We didn’t hive to leave Nick Anderson Dennis Scott or Horace" said Jordan “We approach it to a point where we try to keep the bench and those three individuals from hurting us" i 2 played Karl Malone and John Stockton As a prize fight it would have been a counted out loud to remind MaJooe not rale to break the NBA’s Stockton showing his 34 years nagging injuries and a short turnaround from the San Antonio aeries had four points and seven assists in an unStockton-lih- c performance Meanwhile Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton each scored 21 points with Kemp getting 19 in the first half Kemp missed only one of 11 shots a turnaround jumper in the third quarter and had 11 rebounds second-quartknockout After Seattle outscored Utah 30-1- 0 in the final 932 of the first half for a 54-3-9 halftime lend the Jazz never got closer than 15 in the second half It was the worst loss in Utah’s playoff history Malone scored 21 points but missed nine shots from the floor as Ervin Johnson Sam Perkins and Frank Brickowski forced him to shoot too many fadeaway from the jumpers He also was free throw line as the Key Arena fans Bulls blow Orlando by Sports briefs 6-- er The Sonics holding the Jazz to only two rebounds in the prvotal second quarter won the playoff opener 102-7- 2 as 30-poi- nt (AP) Pag 6 one-sid- 3 Muster who also won the tournament in titles this year I99(i has five and 38 in bis career He earned $309000 day-cou- rt quis Grissom led off with a home ran and the Braves beat the Reds for the 11th straight e time including a in last NL playsweep year’s four-gam- ed offs McGriff on pace for hb best season went with two doubles and four RBIs capping off the day with a seventh-innin- g -4 X-ra- ys Senators draw top pick — The Ottawa NEW YORK (AP) Senators won the drawing Sunday for the first pick in the NHL draft June 22 at St Louis Ottawa was assigned a 30 percent chance of winning through a numbering system ng Sunday's scores NBA Playoffs Chicago 121 Orlando 83 NHL Playoffs Colorado 3 Detroit 2 AL Cleveland 8 Texas 5 Boston 12 Oakland 2 Milwaukee 4 Minnesota 2 California 10 New York 1 Baltimore 8 Seattle 7 Toronto 3 Kansas City 2 Chicago 14 Detroit 3 CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Jordan Jordan said he would wait at least until August to make a decision “If they mess around with me here 5:30 pm CSPN — NHL Playcf's Florida at Pitta-bug- pm said after winning her pm PRIME — Boung champion Ameth Arwv vs Hector Ouroz ) tor NABO junior welterweight championship Altameano ) wpfterweghts (20-1-0- (39-6-3- frey Nyakana (27-1-1- ) ): el junior vs GodInglewood Caff (31-0-0- ts ) Today's quote "We had the guys up there thst we thwcht could get the job done but we didn't do it That guy's pretty tough lie's got a lot of ability he’s a great pi came arm and he's battler He st ai aggressively and impressed me a to" — fog Aecres reuhrr JLfIr Pu::e on I'hiLiJi lpkn irlnrr Fh tr Bma!tro 4o Xfrih 1 out Wrrr ifugrrr r AVrni end Feel Mundsu ik no on tn iKr Sifcn (’f the stsA f BERLIN (AP) — StefiT Gref is ready for the Treoch Open Well st least more confident fotknrirg a victory in the German Open “To win on day was very iir porta?:" TNT — NBA Piayofs Utah at Seattle KJ 22 — NBA Playoffs Utah at Seattle Jaw German Open h WGN — Major League Basebal Chicago Cubs at Atlanta 5:35 p m TBS — Major League Basebal Cheago Cubs at Atlanta (12-1-- homer that n else- 10-ye- ar career hitting at least 20 homers every season and 30 or more seven times Hus season though he b starting off like ha wants to truly gain recognition as one of the game's best players hitting J53 with 11 homers and 40 RBIs in the first 43 games “I’ve still got 400 or more to catch Hank Aaron" said McGriff whose locker U next thing now because we haven’t gotten to that point Obviously we want to keep Michael in Chicago But I haven't even thought about numbers enioy this while I can” of consistency during his yet I just want to to the sealed cubicle where Aaron dressed during his Atlanta career “But there's a lot of satisfaction a lot of bard work over the yean extra batting practice I've put a lot of work into trying to hit home runs" Like McGriff Smoltz (9-also b on pace for a career year 1) Jordan’s slated minimum probably would make his salary the third highest in the NBA next season Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicka b the league's highest- with a salary of $187 million Sid player s Shaquille O'Neal who b being paid $57 million this season b expected to get $20 million next season The right-hand- who never er has won more than 15 games allowed just two hits in seven innings and retired the last 11 batters he faced on jat 39 pitches He has won nine decisions in a row since losing hb first start Graf wins ninth Roy beats Wings On television (18-3-0- NBA-recor- play on another team for $10 million less if I hive to just on principle They've made lot erf money here and it’s time to give a little back” Jordan becomes a free agent after the pbyoffs He said he would prefer an annual salary matching hb jersey number $23 million But he said he would stay in Chicago for $18 million a year Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said: “No figure yon give me would mean any Sunday night “1 want to stay here and I feci like it's 70-3- 0 that I will maybe 80-2- 0 But I'm prepared to go and so is my family if it doesn't happen” Vancouver 16 Albuquerque 4 Tacoma 12 Phoenix 9 (11) Fc monton 5 Salt Lake City 4 (10) Las Vegas 6 Calgary 2 first game Las Vegas 8 Calgary 3 second game Colorado Springs 3 Tucson 2 vs Ricky Htsia Jose Flores The Bulls meanwhile did little wrong as they showed why they d won an 72 games this season They shot 55 percent from the floor and displayed balance with 21 points from Jordan 18 from Scottie Pippcn and 13 from Rodman to go with his 21 rebounds Toni Kukoc who'd missed the last three games of the previous series after hurting hb back returned for 12 points and 10 assists and Luc Longlcy kept O’Neal busy on the defensive end by scoring 14 where for whatever” Jordan said “I’ll with the Chicago Bulls for two more yean the Chicago Tribune reported today “That’s it and that's the absolute bottom figure" Jordan told the newspaper PCL da Chicago's Dannb Rodman grabs ana of hb the first gams of tha NBA Eastern ContorencaFinab Sunday which I don’t think they will I’ll go wants a minimum of $36 million to stay NL 9 AP photo Qamwbigh 21 rebounds in tfw Jordan eyeing $36 million deal Atlanta 9 Cincinnati 5 Houston 4 Pittsburgh 3 Colorado 10 St Louis 3 Florida 8 Chicago 7 1 1 wrings San Francisco 1 New York 0 1st game San Francisco 6 New York 2 2nd game Philadelphia 5 Los Angeles 4 San Dieoo 4 Montreal 3 7 two-ru- brought him the personal mile- stone He became the 71st player to reach 300 home runs McGriff 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