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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 24,1989 the stars and stripes Pago 21 supersonics Deal picks with bulls by the associated press Seattle has exercised its option to switch draft picks with Chicago in the june 27 Aba draft. Supersonics president Boh Whitsitt announced monday. Along with having their own pick in the i7lh slow. The Somes also have the Isle pick. Chicago previously sat in the 18th position hut will now have the 20lh selection logo with its no. 6 pick. The sonics gained the right to make the switch when they sent the rights to Scottie i Ippun to the bulls in Kevin Johnson of the suns has a pressing Lime Between . S Byron Scott 4 and manic Johnson in game 1. Aba notes Exchange for the rights to Olden i Olyniec on draft Day in 1987. Playoffs Chicago leads Detroit 1-0. And the los Angeles lakers arc up 1-0 on Phoenix in the conference finals which were to continue tuesday night. Game 3 in the West series tips off Friday night in Phoenix. Game 3 in the East runs saturday in Chi Cago. Streaks Detroit kept two positive streaks alive in its 94-88 loss to Chicago sunday. The pistons have still not allowed an opponent to score in triple digits in the playoffs and have held the opposition to fewer than 20 Points in at least one Quarter of even game. Chicago scored Only 17 Points in the second Quarter of game i. The lakers streaked to 8-0 in the playoffs by beating the suns 127-119 saturday. James worthy scored .12 Points for the lakers and Kevin Johnson 27 for the suns. Scoring Michael Jordan of Chicago scor ing at a 37.1 clip is the Only outright postseason Statis tical category Leader not yet eliminated from the play offs. Detroit s James Edwards perfect in 13 tries from the foul line shares postseason free throw honors with Walter Davis 15 for 15 and Darwin Cook 6 for 6. Both of Denver. Arizona s Olson Colls for College cleanup byte Bolvin stuff writer Limburg West Germany Lute Olson says it s about time. About time the Mcaa starts cleaning up College basketball. About time schools Start cleaning up their pro Grams. And about time some of the name teams Start feeling the heal for cheating. When asked if he thought some of the Caas penal ties were a Case of nit picking Olson said "1 Don t think when you Send Cash to them you can Call that  Olson s Ari Ona wildcats were in town to play the West German National team. Arizona won saturday 91-89 and lost sunday in Stuttgart 85-83. Kentucky was placed on probation Friday with one of the biggest charges being that former assistant coach Deanc Casey sent Cash to freshman Forward Chris Mills father while Mills was in High school. The Mcaa s investigation found that another player Eric Manuel committed academic fraud by cheating on a College Entrance exam and was allowed to compete Dur ing the 1987-88 season even though the school should have known he was ineligible. Personally i m Happy to see what s happening with the Mcaa now Olson said saturday. They re making a Strong statement to clean up your program do things right or you re going to gel  and Olson said everybody better watch out. It s obvious that it s not like it used to be where you could say they never touch the Kentucky a the Kan sales the people like that " Olson said. They re obviously going to get whoever is in violation. That s the Way it should be. If rules Are there then obey the rules. If you Don t obey the rules then take the  Olson who at one Lime was rumoured to be switching wildcats for the Bluegrass Type did not speculate on who would take the Kentucky Job vacated by the embattled Eddie Sutlon during the Mcaa investigation. He did say whoever it is will have hard work. The loss of Mills and Manuel really hurts them Olson said because they re not very deep in the pro Gram and they re limited to three scholarships in each of the next two years. A lot of programs when they go on probation have a lot of Good players in the program. I think in the Kentucky situation the numbers have dwindled and now with two of their very Best players out that s going to make it difficult. They re going to have to go through a couple of Tough  a couple of other thoughts from Olson on Anthony Cook s prospects in the Aba he played in Orlando with the top 32 pro prospects. He ended up with a great week and has now been projected to maybe be the 15th pick in the first round. I think it s important that he gets with the right team because he runs the floor really Well. If he gets on a team that really runs i think hell be a Good player. I think it has to be a team like the celtics or nuggets or Utah somebody that really gets out and  on the Michigan situation obviously it was handled very poorly because the team deserved to have their head coach working the Mcaa tournament. It worked out Well for Steve is Char. There s no question that the problem came up when word leaked out that Bill Fri Der w As going to Arizona state. My feeling was that it should have been a gentleman s agreement Between Fri Der and Charles Harris of Arizona stale and the Only two that should have known about it is those two. Frieder should have gone Back and coached his team and made the announce ment after the season was Over. I know that Bill has very1 Strong feelings for his team and has always been very close to his players. I m sure thai it has Hun him a lot and it Hurt his players a lot that he was not  Lute Olson s wildcats split 2 games with germans  
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