European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 30 the stars and stripes sports thursday. February 11,1993 nuggets win in Seattle for first time since 88 Aba by the associated press Seattle Denver can t match the Phoenix suns claim As the hottest team in the Aba. The nuggets Aren t even the hottest team in their division. Just Call them the hottest of the teams Likely to be participating in the draft lottery. The nuggets posted their most impressive performance of the season tuesday night winning in Seattle for the first time in five years 96-92 Over the supersonics. ,." the Victory was just the third in 23 Road games for Denver this season but gave them a 10-4 record after a stretch of losing 16 of 17 games. The loss was just the third in 22 Home games for the sonics who last lost at Home to the nuggets on March 5, 1988, a stretch of 10 games. Assistant Gene Littles coached the nuggets because Dan Issel was confined to the dressing room with stomach flu. It must have been our night to win Littles said. Iwas praying the sonics would miss shots they normally make and they  Littles who once served As Seattle head coach George Karl s assistant at Cleveland said being a head coach is a lonely feeling. That s the first time i be broken into a sweat All sea son Littles said. The nuggets overcame a 13-Point deficit in the third Quarter capped by Chris Jackson s 3-Pointcr with 1 28 left in the game. Jackson s shots broke a 90-90 tic and the nuggets made it 96-90 on a free throw by Marcus Liberty with 17 seconds left and a pair of free throws by Tom Ham monds with 7/7 seconds to go. Jackson Denver s leading scorer with an 18.7 scoring average was held to 11 Points on 4-of-14 shooting. Even on a bad shooting night i have Confidence in my shot Jackson said. Disc Mac Mutombo scoreless in the first half finished with 15 Points 17 rebounds and three blocked shots for Denver. Eddie Johnson paced the sonics with 22 Points. In other games tuesday night jazz 119, Kings 114 Sacramento Calif. Karl Malone had 36 Points and 11 rebounds and Jeff Malone scored 23points on 11-for-14 shooting As Utah ended a five game Road losing Streak by beating Sacramento. The jazz led 101-91 with 8 06 left on a Short jumper by Larry Krystkowiak who scored 10 Points in the final period. The Kings pulled within four on Mitch Rich mond s free throw with 1 54 remaining but that waste closest they got. Wayman Tisdale scored 18 of his 31 Points in the first Quarter for Sacramento. Richmond and Lionel Simmons each had 22 Points for the Kings. Spurs 112, clippers 97 san Antonio first place san Antonio stayed a game in front of Utah in the Midwest division As David Robinson had 25 Points 13 rebounds and seven blocked shots against los Angeles. The Victory was the 15th in 16 games for the spurs including 12 consecutive wins at Home. Danny Manning led the clippers with 25 Points but Only seven came in the second Naif. The spurs who have won by 10 Points 6r, More 11 times during the current hot Streaky led by going into the fourth Quarter and extended the margin to As Many As 21 Points. Dale Ellis scored 20 Points including three 3-Point ers that made him the spurs single season team re Cord Holder with 68, one More than Mike Dunleavy had in 1982-83. Hawks 125, warriors 114 Oakland Calif. Atlanta handed Golden state its seventh consecutive loss behind Dominique Wilkins 38 Points. Kevin Willis had 24 Points and 15 rebounds for the Hawks who took advantage of the absence of Chr Smullin sidelined eight weeks after surgery to repair torn ligaments in his right thumb and Tyrone Hill Given the night off after the death of his grandmother. Golden state which got 27 Points from Sarunas Marciulionis led 93-90 after three periods but Atlanta outscored the warriors 35-21 in the fourth Quarter the warriors have been outscored in the fourth period in each of their last seven games and 14 of their past 16, All of them losses. Meanwhile the warriors announced tuesday that they have signed unrestricted free agent scan Higgins to a 10-Day contract. Higgins a 6-8 swing Man appeared in seven preseason games with the los Angeles lakers in 1992, averaging 3.7 Points and 1,7 rebounds in eight minutes. He was Cut from the lakers training Camp roster on nov. 5. Cavaliers 107, hornets 103 Charlotte . Brad Daugherty had 28 Points and 17 rebounds As Cleveland downed Charlo Tetor its fifth consecutive Victory. With the hornets trailing 105-102, Larry Johnson was fouled with 1.1 seconds left. After making the first free throw he intentionally missed the second but i Hairball gave the Cavaliers Possession. Larry Nance s foul shot with 0.8 seconds left made it 106-103, and Cleveland was awarded a technical foul shot when Charlotte called a timeout when it had none left. Mark Price who finished with 20 Points made the free throw to Complete the scoring. The hornets who had their four game winning Streak snapped were led by Johnson with 29 Points and 14 rebounds and Dell Curry with 24 Points. Curry set a team record with five 3-pointers. Celtics 104, Bucks 92 Hartford Conn. Reggie Lewis scored 20 Points and Boston out rebounded Milwaukee 48-26 to hand the ducks their fourth straight loss. .hornets1 5-foot-3 guard Tyrone mugs Bogues drives past cars 67 Craig Ehlo at Charlotte tuesday night. Lewis who scored 14 in the first Quarter hit four free throws in the final 1 45 and Xavier Mcdaniel who had 18 Points added six free throws during that Span for the celtics. Rookie Todd Day scored a career High 29 Points and Frank Brickowski had 22 for Milwaukee. Heat 106, pistons 105 Detroit Miami beat Detroit for the heat s first Victory at the Palace of Auburn Hills As former Piston John Salley scored 23 Points and intercepted Orlando Wool ridges inbound pass in the final seconds. A Hook shot by Grant Long who scored Miami s final five Points to finish with 24, gave the heat the Lead with 4.7 seconds remaining. Then Salley intercepted the inbound pass and held the Ball until the Buzzer ended the game. Steve Smith added 22 Points for the heat now 1-8 on the Road against Detroit. Terry Mills scored a Ca reer-highi.28 Points Woolridge 26 and Joe Dumars 20 for the pistons who have lost 10 of 12 games. Celtics lakers draw first All Star Blanks new York a imag Ine an Aba All Star game with neither a Boston cult to nor a los Angeles Laker. Since the first game was played in 1951, it has never happened. Until now. The celtics arid lakers with a combined 27 Aba championships were left out tuesday when the league announced re serves for the feb. 21 game at Salt Lake City. And none of their players were elected by the fans to the starting teams announced ear Lier this month. Among the 15 players selected As backups by couches in the East and West conferences were five players making their All Star debuts including detlef Schrempf of Indiana who is the first european player selected. And while a european plays in the game for the firs time it is the first All Star game Ever in which both the celtics and the lakers have been left off the team. In fact the Only limes just one of the two teams was rep resented on the All Star team were in 1978 when no lakers were named and 1979 when no celtics were selected. There has always been some one to carry the Torch for each team. The string began with George Mikan Jim Pollard and Vern Mikkelsen of the lakers and de Macauley and Bob Cousy of the celtics in the first game March 2, 1951 in Boston. La continued through the Laker eras of Jerry West Elgin Baylor Wilt Chamberlain Kareem Abdul Jabbar and magic Johnson. The celtic run was marked by Bill Russell John Havlice . Jones Dave Cowens and Larry Bird. Unlike baseball and hockey the Aba and nil do not re quire that each team be rep resented at their All Star games. Picked for the first time along with Schrempf who will play for the East were Sean Elliott of sail Antonio Shawn Kemp of Seattle Danny Man Ning of the los Angeles clip pers and Mitch Richmond of Sacramento who will play for the West. Also named As East reserves were Joe Dumars of Detroit Patrick Ewing of new York do Minique Wilkins of Atlanta and three Cleveland teammates Mark Price Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance joining the four All Star rookies As West backups were Chris Mullin and Tim Hardaway of Golden state Dan Majerle of Phoenix and Hakeem Olajuwon of Houston. Mullin will not play in the game because of an injury to his right thumb. Earlier fan balloting elected Chicago s Michael Jordan and Scollie Pippen Detroit s Isiah Thomas Charlotte s Larry John son and Orlando s Shaquille o Neal to Start for the East and Utah s John Stockton and Karl Malone Portland s Clyde Drexler Phoenix s Charles Barkley and san Antonio s David Robin son As West starters. Pat Riley of new York and Paul Westphal of Phoenix will coach the teams. The celtics and lakers were among 10 of the 27 Aba franchises which failed to have an All Star representative. Filo pacers Diouf Schrempf. 1st european pick