European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Strong Center key to Success in Aba suck Point guards Are Nice Mohave and so it the Aba always has been a centers league a league of will and Russell Kareem and Akeem. Strength underneath and the indomitable will off arty Bird Are Why beat up Boston is Itil play tog and Why Ensign David Robinson will be the no. 1 pick by san Antonio next month. The celtics limping along like the remnants of the revolutionary army won game 7 of their Eastern conference semifinals 119-113 Over Milwaukee sunday out rebounding the Bucks 69-36. Robert Parish who mined the sixth game of the series with a bad ankle had 19 rebound. Kevin Mchale play ing with hit banged up right ankle heavily taped had 15. Bird had 10, at Well Ai 13 fourth Quarter Points. So the backs were beaten on the boards a fact that could not escape the notice of the Aba s tired and poor who gathered for the halftime draft lottery in a surreal jelling. While the celtics battled for their survival on television Monitor positioned around the room the also rans Drew lots to deter mine the no. 1 pick in the 1987 draft Robinson is the prize of this draft i two year naval obligation notwithstanding. So when Bob Bass general manager of the san Antonio spurs wound up with the pick he made it Clear that Robin son s naval commitment would not interfere wit the spun choosing him. We have wailed for 14 years said an exultant Bass. What s two More he s the Besl Center in the draft and we need a Center. He s a terrific athlete and that s what wins in the Aba  and by the Way he s also 7 feel Tell. Robinson will be the fifth Slraight Tenter to be the no. 1 pick a the draft following Brad Daug Herty by Cleveland last year Patrick Ewing by the new York kicks two years ago and Kacem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson by Houston in 1984 and 1983. Over those four years the Only guards to go among the first six picks were Michael Jordan an exceptional Case in 1984 by Chicago and Byron Scon in 19s3 by the los Angeles lakers. Ironically though it was a guard Gerald Hender son who hovered Over Sunda a proceedings both at draft Central and on the parquet floor at Boston Gar Den. He was intimately involved in both events even though he was nowhere near either of them. Henderson was a member of Boston s championship teams in 19ft i and 1984 before being traded to Seattle for the supersonics no. 1 pick in the 1986 draft. Through the lottery that translated into the second player in the draft and the celtics cashed it in for in Bias who died of a cocaine overdose two Days after being picked. Imagine Bias in the celtic lineup. Would Boston have been pushed to a seventh game if in had him Henderson played two years for the sonics and then was traded to the new York kicks. Csolty Stirling then the knicks1 general manager surren dered a no. 2 pick next year and accepted a draft position Swap with Seattle this season unless new York was 1-2-3 in the lottery. In that Case the Posi Tion