European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Celts certain fans will provide spark in Boston Garden sunday. June 8, 1986 the stars and St filpes Page 23 i win Iam r. Barnard Houston a the Bonmon Cal lies who discovered the he Uminn Roll ills still have some icel in Ihm. Returned Home Friday certain their own fans will provide an boost. The rockets were breaking easier after learning that Ralph Sampson will Noi be suspended for a fight Thill started a Bench Clearing Brawl in thursday night s fifth game of the Aba finals. The Battle Early in the second Jim tar. Which resulted in Sampson Bank ejected spurred the Houston crowd my the rockets to an emotional peal to been a close pome turned into a 111 rout Over the celtics who still Lead the bust of seven series 3-2. belter Wurr his Boston s Larry Bird said of sunday s fiame 6 at Boston Garden. There will be a lot of Contact Back in Boston. Our crowd will be louder than theirs and they Are going to be mean and the arc s going to be a lot of intensity Otil Here the floor when we go Home for Ward Kevin Mel Laic said. They re going to be against us regard less said Trie rockets Alceto Olajuwon who sparked Houston s fifth game Victory. We Don t expect them to treat us there had been talk that Sampson might be suspended since he had been ejected for fighting during a regular season game with Denver on March 6 after punching Bill nuggets. Rod Thorn the Aba s via president in charge of operations said Friday thai a suspension was discussed but rejected. Thorn said it would be inaccurate la con clude that Sampson was riven a breast be cause he is in a championship series. We Don t want to give a player carte its Che that he can gel away with anything during the finals he said. The incident still was being studied according to Thorn who said that tines arc a definite possibility ind probably will be announced the Brawl Siar cd Between the 7-Fooi-4 Sampins and the celtics 6-1 guard Jerry Sichting and quickly escalated. Boston s Bill Walton tackled Sampson to get him away from Sichting and Olajuwon fired some punches at Dennis Johnson who suffered a Cut Over his left Eye. Sampson however was he Only player ejected which enraged the Cassity crowd of i6.016.il the Summit. The rockets leading by one Point at the Lime of the ejection responded with a 20-8 spurt and went on in Lead 58-47 Al halftime. The crowd and the rockets never let up and the celtics never go close to the Victory they need to win their i nth Aba Lille. We lost our composure said Bird who finished who f7 p
