European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 24,19bb the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary lakers Best of 88, but Nof history How a Doi everybody Welcome to Thefan radio sports Call in show. We Haven 1 done his in three months so let s go Wiesbaden you re on the air. Fly hob1 about those lakers arc they the great rat or what the Best of 19ss, no doubt. The greatest in no history noway. Give me a break. Who hit Iolj you go with four 70 kicks As usual the 70 kicks would beat these lakers yeahs would the 72 lakers. You saw Wilt chamber lain a half Lime sunday touting his 72 lakers Over the 88 lakers. He s right Wilt Jerry West. 33 straight wins 69-13 in inc regular season. I d Lake one other . Team Over these lakers the 82 learn. Those Guys had an effective Karsetn Abdul Jabbar and a healthier magic Johnson. They had Norm Nixon who was Superior Lobyron Scott. They also had Jamaal Wilkes who was More consistent than James worthy and Bob Mcadoo off the Bench. Give me the Doo any Day Over Mycha Thompson. So who s the Bent in history the 76ers of 1983 would whip them All. Moses along at his Peak. Or. A Maurice checks. They were so Tough they swept the lakers in the  those were the same lakers of Kareem magic Nixon and Mcadoo. Of. Thanks for calling. Mildenhall. England you re live on fan. Yeah hello. What a pleasure to pick up you show up Kerf. Why has t an thought ref this that s the Competition. So 1 Don t really  since you fixed an s excuses arc manpower shortage and inability to Sci up a seven second Dclay phone system. That s laughable because the far East network in Tokyo started a  recently. An air Force technical sergeant named Wayne Amann lakes Calls from throughout the main islands of Japan every Friday night. So an could do i. They just Don t want to. / have anole for question about a in. Yesterday on their sports update they gave the White sox score but not the cubs game. What gives i know what you re talking about. The Guy said in night games then gave four baseball  were four other night games but he ignored those. Plus Here were five Day games he skipped. I Don t know what an s thinking but i have guess some news director Well to a stateside sem Inar that preached latest scores on update shows. The problem with thai is we in Europe consider Allstate Side scores to be late. I can t Wail for inc foot Ball season. The an sports update Guy will re port sunday s night game bul forget the nil s 12 Day games. Baum older Germany what s on your mind Kay Freer. I say he s going to win the Gold i Seoul. Bucky Fox i m with you. The baddest Boxer out of Bauro Holder won the nationals because he s inc Best Amateur heavyweight. Now id s Hope the cubans make Good on i hair Promise to Boycott inc olympics Mercer can beat anyone else. Garl Studl Germany you picking us up clearly up there you a. Question who s going to win the Tyson spanks fight monday say Tyson in Jive. I say Spinks on a decision. If Bonc Crusher Smil Hcan go the distance against Tyson so can Spinks plus Spinks is Suvyier. Then again Tyson has in advantage of sparring with his wife. Sch Storberg. Good to hear from Holland. Good to Hrar your show the biggest Deal Here Isth dutch reaching the european soccer Champi Onset game. I m no soccer fanatic but that was one Quick Netherlands Bunch thai beat tire germans in tues Day s semifinal. Hope you rip the russians sat urday. Berlin Good to hear you on fan sports Call in. Your Detroit pick in the Aba almost came through. If Tiwiah Thomas played the pistons would pc Volt. You re right. Too bad the ankle kept him out much of game 7. At least Thomas produced the Best line of the season. You probably saw it after game 6. Brinl Musburger asked if his injuries would keep him put of tuesday s finale. Thomas replied i m playing then walked away Heilbronn Germany what s on your mind bitty Martin. I give him another month if that. Now that his Yankees Are fading All Bill needs is another Brawl and George will Boot him. I still say the Yankees will win american league but Boston gives me the Shivers  Germany you re live. Niimd. I m a softball player with a Gripe. The Continental sports conference is inviting just Jour teams to the positional in August and three will Advance to Safe. Thai s ridiculous. They should have Al least six teams in the positional. Sounds reasonable. I asked the Csc about it and the problem seems to be billeting space and Cost. Once upon a time the Csc invited eight teams to its positional with one advancing to Safe. That was a system with integrity. A Call from Iraklion. How s the heal in Greece Beautiful i la take it Over Germany and Day. I falling about the Houston Pitcher. By 6 Knepper. Should the be tossed out of baseball for calling the National organization for women a blowhard organization " and a Bunch of lesbians ? no. It s called Freedom of speech. I liked  retort on armed forces radio. He noted that Knepper apologized but did i Tak Eback his slam. Then Boncroft said Bob keep per 1 think you be said  Hohrn fils Germany you re live on fan. Too had about Kenny Adams. The . Olympic boxing each. Maybe he had it coming. The Usa Amateur boning federation fired Adams Afler he choked one of its members in an argument. Adams struck me As a Neal Sharp coach when i interviewed him on a flight after in 1985 Usa eur championships. Maybe in real life inc Man is violent. I wonder if hell stay on As inc army s coach. Munich Good to hear from you. Thanks. I m calling about girls basketball l hear Dani Conboy of Patch High school got a basketball scholarship from Duke. That would be the first Divi Sion i hoops scholarship from Here since oar own Kristin Wilson five years ago. Is that right it is. Conboy was the stars and stripes female basketball player of the year for 1988. Duke went 17-11 last season and projects the 5-foot-l i con boy As a email Forward. If that does t raise you Hopes for the future of High school athletes in Europe this might Dick Strockbine the women Shoops coach and men s soccer coach at i carnal word a College in san Anionic Drolc we re try ing to interest some of the belter Dodds players to coming to incarnate word we re an Nai scholarship program. We re interested in hear ing about any outstanding Allie cites looking for  Here s a Cail from Aviano. Italy. Go ahead. / saw where Jim Mcmahon the bears Quarter Baek is Louring Europe. I Fuhs he like kind of like he appears on to. He s a Cool , earthy a Beer Drinker. I joined his group for dinner and when inc Black tied waiter offered wine Mcmahon said i Don l drink wine. I la have another  you can also till he respects his wife Nancy who s on inc trip with him. And despite his supposed problems with the press he allowed a three hour interview even though he was groggy from his trip from Chicago . Does Mcmahon like Chicago s title chances eve though he might not play this year yes. He also Kikes Washington.  Orleans and Minnesota lie lauds the redskins defense now that in has Wilbur  also likes the redskins defensive end Charles Mann who manhandled Mcmahon in inc playoff last season. I asked if Mcmahan knows Mann personally. He answered i do now. He kicked the Bleep out of  that s All the Lime we have. Stay tuned to fan and Well talk again soon. Big names put their Marks on finals Ingle Wood Calif. A James worthy. Isiah Thomas. Magic Johnson. Adrian Dantley. Kareem Abdul Jabbar. In their own ways All guaranteed that the 1988 Aba championship scribe would be a memorable one. Worthy won postseason most valuable player honors by averaging 28.5 Points in the los Angeles lakers four victories Over the Detroit pistons. He had 36 Points 16 rebounds and 10 assists in the lakers 108-105 Victory in game 7 that gave them the Aba i first successive titles since Boston in 1968-69. The first triple double in worthy career gave him map honors for the first Lime. I guess this was my greatest game under the circumstances worthy Saidof tuesday night s performance. I gave it All i bad i knew 1 had All summer  Thomas the pistons guard whose courage in the face of a badly sprained ankle nearly won the series for Detroit said worthy s performance made the Dif Ference. I was t surprised Hal be would havea game like  Thomas said. He played extremely Well and he is always capable of scoring like  Thomas who said monday that i would take a Miracle for him to play was still on crutches when he arrived in the forum before the game. He played 19 minutes in the firs half and scored 10 Points four of them in the final seconds of the second Quarter Logie Detroit a 52-47 halftime Lead. But he managed Only nine minute Sand no Points in the second half. In the second half it lightened up one and 1 could t do much of anything Thomas said. If i did t play i would regret it. It s belter to be there than to say  Thomas Jaid he did i consider losing to the lakers a devastating defeat. We lost to one of the beat teams i history so it s not disappointing he said. If we were beaten by any other team than the lakers it would be  Johnson who had 19 Points and 14assists in the seventh game won the map award in 1980, 1982 and 1987, bul he was out polled 7-4 by worthy. Playing in this championship series was the hardest thing for me to do Johnson said. Trying Noi to be Friend with Isiah _ that was the most difficult thing i Ever had logo  Byron Scott taking advantage of Thomas worsening Imp saved the Lak ers with 12 Points in the first 6 2s of thei Hird Quarter helping lot Angeles turn the five Point Nalt Lime deficit into a 70-59 Lead. Detroit never caught up after that Al though the pistons got within two three times in the fourth Quarter. Worthy won a series Long scoring Bat the with Detroit s Dantley by outscoring him 36-16 in game 7. Dan Llcy s discrepancy Between Point scored in Piston s wins and losses we similar to worthy s for los Angeles Winsand losses. Dantley averaged 28.7 when Detroit won and 15.8 when it lost. Worthy aver aged 28.5 when the lakers won and 13.3 when they lost. Worthy and Dantley scored 11 Points apiece in the first Quarter As Detroit Tooka 23-21 Lead. Worthy then scored nine Points in the second period 11 More inthe third and five in inc fourth. Worthy was 15 for 22 from the Field and played 44 i nulls. Dantley was 5for ii in 31 i nulls. The lakers built a 94-79 Lead Midway through the fourth Quarter but Detroit closed the Gap to 98-96 with 2 so left. Tip in by worthy with 1 25 left gave los Angeles a 100-96 Edge and he added Afree throw with 14 seconds to go making it 106-102. When we were up 15, we kept saying to ourselves that we have to be Strong worthy said. The pistons Are known Asan aggressive team. They re nol quit ters.11