European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 25,1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports celtics Trade Ainge Lohaus for two Kings Adrian Dantley. Missed three games Dantley will play for mavs Dallas a Adrian Dantley announced thursday night that he was ending his holdout with the Dallas Mav Ericks and would Likely play in Friday night s game against Golden state. The Mavericks said Dantley acquire from Detroit in a Trade last week for Mark Aguirre would arrive in Dallas Ona late night flight. Dantley will report with his contract unaltered said Kevin Sullivan Maver icks Public relations director. Dantley had sought to extend his con tract a year and had missed three games at a Cost of $45,000. The Mavericks had tried without Suc Cess All Day to find a team willing to give them a no. 1 draft pick for Dantley. Dallas threatened to put Dantley on the Aba s suspended list. Rick Sund vice president in charge of personnel began calling the other Aba teams wednesday but had no Success intruding Dantley. Sacramento Calif. A the Boston celtics traded Veteran guard Danny Ainge and Center Brad Lohaus tothe Sacramento Kings thursday in Exchange for forwarded Pinckney and Cen ter Joe Kleine. Ainge who turns 30 in three weeks played in 45 games for Boston this sea son. He averaged 16.1 Points and 4.8assists in 30 minutes per game. Ainge scored a career High 45 Points against the Philadelphia 76ers on dec. 9. The Brigham Young graduate one of the Best 3-Point shooters in the Aba has hit 58 of 155 3-Point attempts for a .374average. Danny has been a tremendous player for us a real asset to the team coach Jimmy Rodgers said. The Trade is favourable for the Kings and us it will help both teams. We Are trading two Quality people and Are getting two Quality people in return that should fulfil our we Are not crazy about giving up Danny Ainge and Brad Lohaus but we have other players that we feel can pickup what we lost in Danny celtics assistant coach Lanny Van Eman said. Inbred s Case he needed time and we could t give it to him. Both can help the Kings but we strengthened Lohaus 24, a second year Center fro Iowa is averaging 5.6 Points and three rebounds a game. Pinckney 25, has averaged 12 Points game for the Kings. A first round draft pick out of Villanova in 1985, the 6-8forward was acquired by Sacramento two years ago from the Phoenix suns. Kleine 27, was the Kings first round draft pick in 1985 when the team moved to Sacramento. The 7-foot Arkansas graduate is averaging 6.7 Points and 5.1 rebounds in 19.4 minutes per game. Kleine Learned of the Trade while his wife was giving birth to their first son according to of by radio. Boston television stations Nev a cab and Wiz reported that Ainge and Lohaus were expected to arrive i Sacramento on sunday missing the Kings games Over the weekend against the los Angeles lakers and Seattle supersonics. Danny Ainge. Averaging 16.1 Points up Kiki Vandeweghe. Happy with Trade kicks get Vandeweghe in Deal with Trail blazers new York a Forward Kik Vandeweghe was traded by Portland to the new York kicks on thursday for first round draft Choice in 1989. The Deal ended weeks of speculation and neg9tiations As the Trail blazers talked with several other teams before making the Deal Only hours before the Aba trading deadline. Trail blazers spokeswoman Jennife Glickman said the Trade was conditional on Vandeweghe 30, passing a physical with the kicks on Friday. Vandeweghe has been sidelined recently with Bac problems. I found out about it on the bus going to practice in Cleveland Vandeweghe said. I was excited. I wanted to go where i was wanted and to be part of what the kicks Are building in new Vandeweghe was averaging 13.9points per game for the Trail blazers. Portland is fourth in the Pacific division with a 25-25 record. Kicks win 20th in Row at Home Page 26 the first place kicks Hope Vandeweghe is the High scoring Forward they have been seeking since Bernard Kin was injured and later signed As a free agent with Washington. There s no better Center around than Patrick Ewing and Mark Jackson is a tremendous Point guard Vandeweg Esaid of his new teammates. Kicks general manager Al Bianc isaid he Felt the blazers made the Trade because they needed a first round expect they la move that pick for another Tyson on challengers just line them up a. _ to of of wet or in rec to . _ . A boxing writer Las vegas Mike Tyson already is being asked who s next after Frank Bruno. I have no idea. Just line them up said Tyson who will defend the heavyweight championship against Bruno saturday night. German first pro Gram will televise the fight starting at 3 20 . Sun Day names like Carl the truth Williams Jose Ribalta James Buster Douglas and Francisco dam Iani Are thrown about by promoter Don King who has an in if not a promotional contract with Tyson. There s nobody on the horizon who can beat Tyson right now said Veteran Trainer Eddie Futch who made a beef appearance in Michael Spinks Corner when the latter challenged Tyson june 27. Bruno is Given Little Chance to is a heavy favorite Over the 27-year-old challenger from Britain and most boxing observer feel he Al need very few of the 12 scheduled rounds to get the Job Champion insists he s not looking past Bruno. I always feel threatened the 22-year-old Tyson said. I be watched the Best fighters in the world fight and i be watched the Best fighters in the world lose. He s a number one contender. He did t get there by just lying on his Why is Bruno the no. 1 contender of both the world boxing Council and world boxing association Bruno has fought four times since he was knocked out by a grossly out of shape Tim Witherspooon in the 11th round of a bid for the world boxing association title july 19, 1986, at Wembley England. Bruno s last fight was an eighth round knockout Over aging Joe Bugner who unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the title in 1975. It s been 16 months since Bruno fought bugner.". I was waiting for Tyson Bruno said of the Long Layoff. The fight originally was scheduled for september and has been postponed five times for various reasons All of them to do with Are those however who believe the people who guide Bruno s career were afraid of risking meaningful tuneup fight. He is a formidable opponent Tyson said Buthe sounded More convincing when he also said dominate in the ring. That s what i do a lot of members of the Large Media mob on Han for the fight have been looking for reasons for Bruno to win. Actually reasons for Tyson to lose. They wonder what effect the absence of Kevin Rooney Tyson s longtime Trainer might have. Tyson dismissed Rooney for talking publicly about things the Champion Felt were not Rooney s concern. Kevin Rooney anybody for me said Tyson who is being trained by longtime Friend Jay Bright and Aaron Snowell. I feel they re competent enough to handle their jobs Tyson said. The main objective is for me to do my and they wonder if Tyson s recent divorce from actress Robin Givens his continuing Legal Battle with manager Bill Cayton and other problems will affect his concentration. Of course there was a Good Deal of turmoil i Tyson s life when he did his 91-second demolition Job on Spinks. People bringing up things of that nature about person s life they get him angrier by getting in his personal life Spinks just pumps him up. Ask me 1
