European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 26. 19bb the stars and stripes Pago 23 Kareem a National treasure Rynio Barnard a i basketball Weller la s painful to watch a Arcco Abdul Jahbar pushing his body up and Down an Aba basketball court. Hut after 20 years countless sky Hooks More than 43,000 Points during the regular season All Star games Anil playoffs it will it even More painful for some to see him go. The Aba without Kareem is like a masterpiece without the paint lakers coach i at Riley says. A s going to be difficult for some of us. We be lived with him Tor a years. 1 keep idling our Guys the Only thing permanent is change but i might not he ready for such a change. He has. After All been around for  la s like halloween without Elvira the wheel of Fortune without  teammate Mychal Thomp son said. It s going to he strange. He s the greatest Ever to play the game la s like Niagara Falls you i Eccl in in be there forever. Then imagine Niagara Falls drying up. What a Luss to fac country that would be. Losing Kareem is like losing a National  Abdul Jahbar who will he 41 before the Aba play offs Start is celebrating his 20lli season in the league with a Farewell tour which sinned in his Hometown new Yurk on tuesday. But while scoring in double a lures in Only two of inc lakers first nine games the player who had a 787 game double figure Streak end last season was hinting that he is already wondering if he retired too late. Not regretting just wondering i m still a Good player but i m being phased out of the offence Abdul Jabbar said la s Tough on me. I d like the Ball Mure. But in our offence. I m being waved to the other Side of the court la s difficult but i m nol taking it personally. ,. I can subdue my desires for the Good of the team. 1 Don t always like it but it s no problem the idea of Kareem being waved away from the offence like just another Manule lol would have been unthinkable just two years ago. He averaged 23.-1 Points per game in 1985-86 and and 17.5 in 1986-87 and still regularly outplayed the likes fake pm Olajuwon. He shot in percent from the Field both seasons. In his first nine games this season tic took just 70shots and made Only 40 percent of them. After us scoring him 17-12 tuesday night Patrick Ewing said Abdul Jabbar is Sill Tough. He Rolls that sky Hook up there and it s still impossible to Block. He still docs what he needs to do for his club to  and Abdul Jabbar can t be accused of overstaying his Welcome with the lakers. General manager Jerry West actively encouraged him to stay for two More years after the 1986-87 sea son. Even though i knew two years ago i could t play it teem Abdul Jabbar s sky Hook in t As deadly us it once was but teammates and Aba fans will still miss it. To the standards of the top of my Carcer i believed and the team believed 1 was Good enough to help . Win a championship and that s what we did Abdul Jab bar said. They made me an offer s3 million this season 1 could t  despite his diminished role with the team. Abdul Jabbar is still a starter which makes him More susceptible to distractions. If i was just Riding the Bench it would he easy he said. It would be n party. But i m playing and the lakers expect me to  Abdul Jabbar s final season Arcady is being com pared to Julius Erving s Farewell tour in Iyru-87. The or. S Lour was really  said lakers backup Center Mark Mcnamara a member of the 76crs during Irving s Farewell season the ceremonies went on for 45 minutes they kept bringing out these people who were Julius friends and when the game started the fans wanted to Sec him score soil messed up the offence ,. Riley said the lakers set a goal of winning All of the 2i Farewell games and arc determined not to fall prey to the distractions. Bruins beat flyers snap Streak by the associated press Boston Philadelphia s reputation for physical play gave the Boston Bruins the inspiration they needed to snap their slide. We knew it was going to be a physical game. That s what we needed to gel Back into  said Bob Sweeney vrho scored both Boston goals including the game win Ner eight seconds into overtime thursday night that., gave Boston a 2-1 Victory Over Philadelphia. Boston snapped a seven game win less Streak five losses and two ties. Sweeney drove Bob Joyce s rebound past flyers. Goaltender Mark Laforrest after Ken Linseman won  overtime. Both of the Jefin Scien went to Bob Joyce so i just busted for the net and fortunately for me the goalie kicked it out right on my  Sweeney said. Ill  Cam Neely tie Bruins lending scorer twice fought with the flyers Jeff cd Chrun while Boston s Jay Milter and Lyndon Byers fought with Terry Carkner and Dave  had t won a b Ime in Over two weeks almost three weeks we were pressing tonight Sweeney said. Usually you go through a slump like that sometime during the year. Hopefully that s the end of  s 1 slump though continues. The flyers have win just once in their last nine games. What you had was a situation where both teams nil Roundup have been struggling lately not really generating a whole lot of offence. Flyers coach Paul Holmgren said. The Bottom line is we re Troi winning Many hockey games and that s the nature of the  Sweeney gave Boston a 1-0 Lead at 13 s9 of the first period when a strange Bounce off the boards behind the net caught la fairest out of position Tim Kerr lied it with his 20th goal. He scored on a 30-fool shot off a Cilc Eklund pass with the lir Uini a Man Short at h 0tf of the  Forrest making his fifth Start of the season faced 24 shots while Andy Moog had 11 sates for Boston in other games  nerd Isacs a canadians 3 Quebec Joe Sakic scored three goals and Marc Fortier had three assists leading Quebec Pam Montreal and snapping the canadians five game winning Skircak. Jeff Brown had a goal and two assists for the Nordt Quot and David Latta also scored for Quebec. Bobby Smith scored for Montreal. Inc 300th goal of his career and Mats Nasli ind. And Eric Desjardins also scored. Dejardins s goals at. Im6 of the third period was the first of his career. Sakic a Rookie has 16 goals this season and Al Points."-. Quebec the leading Power play team in the nil scored two Power play goals in the first period taking n3-01ead. -. Sakic scored at 3 05 on a High shot Over Lunan Hay Ward s left shoulder with Rick Green off for Cross checking.  made it 2-0 at 624 on a backhand shot that trickled into inc net after a scramble. Mike me Pace was off  at the time. Sakic then scored from the Slot off a pass i rom Fortier at 10 45. Quebec increased the Lead to 4-0 at -1 21 of the Sec Ond period when Brown pushed in the rebound of Michel Gollel s backhand. Bobby Smith set up Naslund in the Slot Midway through the period for a Power play goal. -. Green was hit hard by Gord Donnelly behind his own net late in the first period and left the Gimme with Day spells. Green did not play the rest of the  oilers4, blues2 St. Louis Jimmy Carson and Mark Messier scored two goals each and Edmonton beat is. Louis despite putting Only 13 shots on goal. Lisa Tiwanne " " Stanley cup i straight Lime Over the last four seasons. St. Louis out Shol Edmonton 26-13 but was was 0 for-6 on Power plays. Gino Cavallini scored both goals for the blues who lost their third straight and fell below .500 for the first time this season at s-9-3. Lulli Kannen had three assists helping the two no cup champions beat St. Louts for the seventh Lime. Edmonton is 12-1-1 against St. Louis