European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes january 1981 lakers Eye Trade for Thompson los Angeles up the los Angeles lakers Are eyeing the possibility of obtaining Denver nug gets Forward David Thompson and former Laker coach Jerry West has been travelling with the nuggets on a scouting the los Angeles Herald examiner has the newspaper said wednesday the nuggets have offered to Trade Thompson to the lakers for guard Norm Nixon and the 1982 first round draft Choice the lakers acquired from Cleveland a year but lakers owner Jerry Buss reportedly turned Down that offer be cause Nixon is one of the Laker untouchables and offered instead Power Forward Jim Chones and the nuggets then countered by asking for the draft pick and the the defending Aba Champion lakers currently Trail the Phoenix suns by seven games in the Pacific division and have a 1211 record since guard Earvin magic Johnson sustained a severe knee injury a month although Buss has admitted the lakers Are interested in he tempered it by adding he was interested in several he re fused to name the but he denied any formal offers have been made by the lakers or the Herald examiner said that nuggets officials know Thompson is a legitimate they apparently want to unload him for two reasons the team is faltering badly and needs to and Thompsons salary is causing a serious cashflow problem for the 8 terrapins 7566 16thrated trips by the associated press the Maryland terrapins Are rated 8 in the but its Tough to pull rank in the Atlantic coast conference especially on the other teams in few other leagues does the Home court advantage mean As and North rated 16 in had it wednesday beating Mary land this game was extremely important for our Young said North Carolina coach Dean Treyve got everybody Back from the team that beat us last year and were missing five of our top Sev this has to help Maryland coach lefty As sex was not too Happy with his teams we had been Down in the first half then we went from eight up to two Down in 30 it seems he then we got in a lot of foul trouble and that really Hurt Driesell was not surprised that North Carolina went to its patented fou Corners its great Early in the second Hes Smiths done that a lot in the Driesell Al Woods second half shooting and some clutch free throws Down the stretch keyed the tar Heel Wood wound up with a Tea leading 22 while Albert King scored 21 for in other action involving the nations ranked 3 Virginia beat North Carolina state 6355 4 Kentucky stopped Auburn 7966 6 Wake Forest tripped appalachian state 6342 9 Louisiana state whipped Vanderbilt 77 61 13 Tennessee turned Back missis Sippi 7368 and 20 Clemson outscored Georgia tech Ralph Sampson scored 24 Points and Jeff lamp had 17 to Lead Virginia Over North Carolina the Victory was Virginias second in the acc this season without a loss and improved its Overall record to the Cavaliers have won 15 straight games going Back to last the nations longest winning Streak for a College basketball quite Ralph Sampson was the said North Carolina state coach Jim Hes just a great basketball if you wanted to Start a pro or College franchise Sampson is the starting he is the most valuable player in the world in that the balanced scoring of Sam Fred Cowan and Dirk Minniefield helped College basketball Roundup Al Wood Kentucky beat Kentucky led by five Points at 5853 with then pulled away from the tigers with solid defense and deadly free throw shoot Cowan scored 17 Bowie 15 and Minniefield 13 for the we almost lost it at one but building the Lead Back is a Good sign this team is growing said referring to the stage where Auburn had trimmed the wildcats Lead to five clutch second half shooting by Jim Johnstone and Danny Young led Wake Forest past appalachian the mountaineers remained close to Wake Forest throughout the first half by using a deliberate but then Johnstone took pour ing in nine of Wake forests first 16 Points in the second As appalachian started collapsing on Young began hit Young and Johnstone both wound up with 12 super sub Willie Simms tossed in 18 Points and Luss stingy defense forced repeated turnovers As the tigers scored their 10th straight Victory with their con quest of Howard Wood scored 29 including 17 free to Lead Tennessee Over Chris Dodds hit four straight 18footers at the Start of the second half As Clemson bolted to an 18point Lead and coasted past Georgia elsewhere in College Chuck Barnetts 24 Points led Oklahoma Over Stephen Austin 8855 Ronald Jackson scored 26 to Pace Southern Mississippi Over Marquette 8472 Randy Wright led a balanced Oklahoma state attack with 19 Points As the cowboys beat new Orleans 9470 Darrell Walker and Reed teamed for 44 Points to Lead Arkansas Ovet Alaska Anchorage 9258 and John Goode scored a game High 15 including a free throw with no time on the As Vii Defeated East Tennesee state Dan Callandrillo 22 Points pow ered Seton Hall Over Providence 6652 Furman Defeated the Citadel 7565 As Mel Daniel scored a career High 34 Points Greg Nance had 20 Points to help West Virginia deft at Youngstown state 8159 and John whipped Georgetown 6860 behind Waym Mckoyes 20 Dominique Wilkins had a career High 37 Points As Georgia beat Florida 9074 Harvey Knuckles 24 Points sparked Tole do Over Kent state 7664 Josephs trimmed Bucknell 6656 As Tony Costner and John Smith combined for 30 Points and Eddie Eddie Phillips and Ken Johnson combined for 37 second half Points to rally Alabama past missis Sippi state Dawkins had but spurs Felt sick continued from Page 21 maybe the spurs took me lightly tonight because they heard i was if they they made a Philadelphia coach Billy Cunningham pointed out that his teams 11 blocked including four apiece by Erving and Caldwell were a key to the Battle of Aba division we did an excellent Job As a Cunningham our shot blocking was a big we were intimidating them As they went to the the 76ers hit 65 percent of their shots in the first Quarter As they raced to a 35 22 Lead behind 10 Points by Dawkins and nine by Dawkins extended Phila Delphias advantage to 16 Points with a free throw and a Dunk to Start the second period and the spurs never got closer than nine Points the rest of the Steve mix led the 76ers with 23 Erving added Dawkins 17 and Lionel Hollins guards George Gervin and James Silas led san Antonio with 25 and 20 the leaders of the Atlantic Divi boosted their Aba Best record to 36 san Leader in the now is in other Aba action celtics suns 90 Larry Bird scored 24 Points and Robert Parish 21 to Lead Boston Over All 11 Boston players scored As the celtics boosted their record to 329 with their 16th Victory in 17 starts at Boston Garden this Boston led 3027 after one but began turning the game into a rout while outscoring Phoenix 3123 in the second Quarter for a 6150 halftime which leads the Pacific Divi Sion with a 3410 lost for the Sec Ond time in a week to the celtics despite 23 Points by Walter pacers nets 103 seven Indiana pacers scored in double led by Billy knights 21 As Indiana Defeated new the who led by As Many As 12 Points in the first half at and by seven at saw the nets Cut that halftime Lead to a 7575 tie with remaining in the third but starting at that the pacers outscored the nets led by Knight with eight and Mike Bantom with six to take a 9377 Lead at the end of the third Kings rockets 108 Phil Ford tossed in 31 including 10 in the final five to guide Kan Sas City Over the Kings also got 20 Points from Reggie King and Scott Wedman Enro Ute to beating Houston for the fifth straight time Over the past two jazz nuggets 117 Adrian Dantley scored a career High 51 Points to Lead Utah past whose previous Aba High was 50 scored 27 in the first half As the jazz took a 6357 advantage and led virtually throughout the but Alex English scored 10 straight Points for Denver to help put the nuggets ahead briefly on two occasions in the fourth after English paced Denver to a ill ill Dantley took scoring five Points As the jazz ran off nine straight and took a 120111 Lead with to Mavericks warriors 108 guard Geoff Huston led Dallas with 24 Points and Forward Bill Robinzine played an outstanding game under the Back boards As the Mavericks beat shorthanded Golden the warriors started the game with nine players because of injury and illness and finished with Only five but almost pulled out a supersonics pistons 94 Jack Sikma scored 19 Points in the Sec Ond half As Seattle wiped out a 19point deficit to defeat the Down by 13 after three held Detroit scoreless Over the first 6vi minutes of the fourth in that Seattle out scored Detroit 140 As the pistons missed All eight Field goal Seattle grabbed the Lead for Good on Bill Hanzlik free throw with to go in the Campbell threatens Stout in million pact dispute continued from Page 21 he Stewart said he and Campbell agreed to sign a six year Deal last year because that was the Best we could get at the time and we didst want to Start any negative we decided if things went Well for Earl this year wed go Campbell does not want to be traded or sit out next Stewart and Hopes that oilers fans will understand Why he is seeking More i cant think of anything positive about Earl sitting out the Stewart Earl feels he has to make a stand now to protect himself and his Stewart said Campbell also was making his contract demands in order to help other members of the Many of whom the agent said were underpaid and a lot of players went to Earl during the season and told him the Only Way he would get anything done was to go in on thursday and threaten not to play on Stew Art Earl  do it now he feels kind of like the Captain of the and if he can help he will be helping some of the rest of the after Campbells contract was renegotiated last there were grumblings among other oilers linebacker Robert Brazile walked out of training Camp when the oilers refused to renegotiate tight end Mike Barber missed part of training Camp before signing his offensive tackle Leon in the option year of his contract next reportedly wants to negotiate a Lon term