European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday May 3,1989 cares to Furns Down Kentucky South Orange . A scion Hall s . Carlisimo saying there s no place like Home ended talks  Kentucky on monday and will remain As Basket Ball coach of the school he took i Hin one Point of the inca championship. I really like it Here. I be be entreated Well Carlesimo said As he left Campus. Kentucky is kind Ofa situation you have to look at but it never got As far As people speculated it  though he called the Kentucky Job a tremendous situation the 39-year-old coach said i be got great situation  Carlisimo ended a week of soul searching when he announced his decision in a locker room meeting with six players. I am extremely comfortable living in the metropolitan area competing in the big East and Iam certain no other environment would be As attractive to me Carlisimo said. He said the Kentucky Job was never offered to him. He said salary was never a fac Tor nor were the possible Mcaa sanctions Kentucky faces because of alleged recruiting violations. Kentucky is trying to replace Eddie Simon who resigned under pressure in the Wake of an inca investigation. Kentucky athletic director  said Virginia coach Terry Holland had been granted Permis Sion to talk to Kentucky officials but Newton refused to name another coaches being considered. Richmond top Aba Rookie Oakland Calif. A Don Nel son did t figure Mitch Richmond would earn a lot of playing time in his first year in the Aba. It s about As wrong As the Golden slate coach has been during the warriors surprising season. Richmond capitalizing on a preseason Start he got partly by default on a team coming off a 20-62 year starred Early and never left the lineup in Roulo to averaging 22 Points 16th Best in the league 5.9 rebounds and 4.2 assists. On monday Richmond was a near unanimous Choice As Aba Rookie of the year. Nelson maintained at a news Confer ence at the Oakland coliseum Arena that he still hates rookies. But in Rich mond s Case he decided to make an exception. I warned him that i bring rookies along very slowly normally Nelson said. Fortunately i did t have to abide by the old  he called the warriors first round draft Choice from Kansas state As Good As anybody i be Ever coached High Praise from a Man who had ail Star play ers Marques Johnson and Sidney Mon Crick during 11 years As coach of the Mil Waukee Bucks. Golden state s guard received 80 of 85 votes from a nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters in balloting for the Eddie Gottlieb trophy. Willie Anderson of the san Antonio spurs received four votes and Chr Smorris of the new Jersey nets Drew one from the Media panel composed of three people from each league City and 10 representatives of the National Media. I m surprised that things happened so Early for me Richmond said. This award is something very special to me something i la  the 6-foot-5, 225-Pound Richmond a member of the 1988 . Olympic team started All 79 games he played As the warriors improved their record by 23games. He helped the warriors Bounce Mitch Richmond. A landslide Winner Back from a 20-62 record a year ago to 43-39 and their second playoff berth in 12 years. He s got no  said the warriors Chris Mullin. Mullin who teamed with Richmond to form the league s highest scoring Hack court duo this season at 48.6 Pomis a game Call Richmond Rock As in Rock solid. He plays both ends of the court 1think that says a lot about him. He s not just an offensive player not just a Guy who goes for the glory. He does All the dirty  last summer after the warriors made him the fifth player taken in the draft Richmond had an off night when the olympians were playing an Aba All Sta team coached by Nelson in Las vegas. Worried about that and about Nelson s reputation As being hard nosed with rookies he approached him afterwards and asked if he was still Happy having picked him. He was questioning his own ability Nelson recalled. I tried to give him some Confidence by saying absolutely. If you have a bad game or two where you re not playing consistently Don t Vorry about it. You re still going to be terrific " Richmond started the season in a bit of a shooting slump but finished As the league s 19th Best 3-Point shooter 37 percent while earning a reputation As a Strong All a found player. An outstanding defensive player in College he made a big Impact on nov. 29 when he guarded Chicago s Michael Jor Dan and outs prod the Aba s two time scoring Champion 27-26. He held Jordan to no Field goals in the fourth Quarter of a 109-99 Golden state Victory. I Felt pretty Good after that game he recalled. "1 think my Confidence level Rose a Little bit after  he had some of his Best games in March. In one week he had 38 Points and nine rebounds in a 120-114 Victory Ove Cleveland and a season High 47 Points in a 155-143 win Over Sacramento. On March 17 against Atlanta he Over came a fourth Quarter Back injury to score 16 of his team High 36 in the final period and the first three in overtime of a 127-118 Victory. Two weeks later in Golden state s most impressive Road showing of the sea son he scored 37 Points in a stunning 134-114 win Over the kicks in new York. An sports radio baseball California at Baltimore 1 30 . Thursday. Price is right for Cavaliers in playoffs by Chuck Melvinay sports writer Richfield Ohio if there was any lingering doubt about the identity of the Cleveland Cavaliers most valuable player it has been erased. Mark Price gives this team emotion just by suiting up. Because he s out there you know the Middle will open up some Forward John Williams said. Price missed the Cavaliers playoff opener against the Chicago bulls on Friday night because of a Groin pull suffered 10 Days earlier. Without him Cleveland lost 95-88, after beating Chicago six straight times Dur ing the regular season. On sunday Price returned to the lineup and the Cavaliers won 96-88. Even though he did t shoot real Well they had to respect him Williams said. Everybody in the Aba respects  Price earned that respect this year by becoming Only the third player along with Larry Bird and magic Johnson to shoot above 50 percent from the Field and 90 percent from the line in the same season. The 6-foot Point guard also was third in the Aba in 3-Point accuracy at .441, 93-of-211. He shot .901 from the free throw line and .526 from the Field. He scored 15 Points sunday on Only 5-of-i8 shoot ing including l-for-5 on 3-Poinlcrs. But the bulls awareness of his shooting ability clearly cased the defensive pressure on his teammates and allowed fellow guard Ron Harper to concentrate More on his shooting than his Ball handling. Harper responded with 31 Points and 11 rebounds offsetting the 30-Point, 10-rebound performance of Chicago s Michael Jordan. Mark helped me because i did t have to worry about that part of the game As much Harper said. That freed me up for the transition game and gave me the Chance to get into the fast break lanes. They can t Sag off Mark. That Means for them to give help on our big people the Guy covering me has to drop off me a  Price suffered his Groin injury while moving Side ways on a defensive play against Detroit s Isiah Thom As on april 18. He missed Cleveland s final two regu Lar season games and the first playoff game and he had been listed As questionable for sunday until he made it through a practice without incident saturday. He did t aggravate the injury at All in the game coach Lenny Wilkins said. I would say that Mark was about 80 percent Wil kens said. He s a Little sore but he did t do anything to it so mentally hell feel stronger next  bulls coach Doug Collins fully recognizes Price s importance to Cleveland. Harper s a different player with Price on the floor Collins said. He can run out ahead and not have the responsibilities of handling the Ball. He can be free to attack in the open floor and that was a big  the bulls though disappointed by sunday s loss were Happy to have split the first two games of the five game series. We really did what we wanted to do in Cleveland Jordan said. We wanted to win badly on sunday. But we know we got one game Here which nobody really thought we d  Chicago cannot afford to relax simply because the next two games arc at Home he said. They re not automatic. We know it s not Guaran teed Jordan said. They beat us three out of three in Chicago this year. We re not going to rest and expect the Hom court advantage to win it for  Aba playoffs Cleveland s Mark Price helps cars just by suiting