European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april19. 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 Aba Heads into Busy final week. By the associated press with one week left in the regular season and Only one playoff berth unclaimed much still remains to redetermined in the Aba. There s the fight Between Charlotte and Miami for the last spot in the Eastern conference the Battle Forest record in the East As Well As several subplots for better seeding and the Home court advantage. The Only teams fighting to extend their seasons Arete hornets and heat Charlotte helped itself on Sun Day defeating new York 107-91, while Miami was los ing to new Jersey 110-103. In other games Orlando beat Chicago 118-101,Houston downed Portland 119-110, Denver Defeated Minnesota 99-88, Indiana edged Detroit 104-99 an Washington trounced Boston 142-100. Miami s Lead Over Charlotte has shrunk to Ivi games and the heat has the tougher schedule in the final week with games still to be played against Minnesota Atlanta and Indiana. The hornets play four teams with losing records de troit Boston and Washington twice. If the teams finish with the same record Miami get the playoff berth because it won the season series 3-1. We have three games left. We we two games and we Are still alive Miami coach Kevin Loughery said. The hornets winners of six of their last seven beat the kicks despite playing without Center Alonz mourning who sat out a one game suspension. Larry Johnson scored 22 Points Hersey Hawkins had 20, Del Curry 15, Frank Byckowski 11 and Kenny Gattison 10. The kicks trailed by at least 11 throughout the fourth Quarter. Nets 110, heat 103 at Miami Kenny Anderson had 29 Points and 11 assists and Benoit Benjamin 25 Points 12 rebounds had his second straight Strong game As new Jersey clinched its playoff Spoti. The nets will end up seeded sixth or seventh de pending on How Indiana does in its final four nets who currently Trail the pacers by a half game have three games left against Milwaukee Phila Delphia and led 60-48 at halftime but Anderson scored 12 Detroit s Terry Mills 6 blocks a shot by Indiana s Rik Smits sunday at Auburn Hills Mich. Points in an 184 run at the end of the third Quarter that turned the game around. Magic 118, bulls 101 at Orlando the magic moved a step closer to Clinch ing the Home court advantage for the opening round playoff series which probably will be against Cleveland. Shaquille o Neal had 32 Points and 14 rebounds Nick Anderson had 22 Points and Anfernee Hardaway had 21 Points eight rebounds and seven assists. Orlan do leads Cleveland by Ivi games and has the tiebreaker Edge Over the cars because of its better conference re Cord. ". F. Chicago had its 10-game winning Streak ended and lost a Chance to move ahead of new York in the three team race for Best record in the East. Rockets 119, Trail blazers 110 at Portland ore., the rockets became the first team in Aba history to make 400 3-polnters. Houston was 10-for-18 from Long Range for the game with Vernon Maxwell going 6-for-ll and scoring 12 of his 27 Points in the fourth Quarter. Maxwell hit three 3 pointers during a 22-5 run that broke the game open in the final period. The previous record for 3-pointers was 398 by Phoe Nix in 1992-93. Houston which has 406, also clinched the Midwest division with the Victory. Jerome Kersey had a season High 24 Points and 11 rebounds for the Trail blazers. Nuggets 99, Timber wolves 88 at Minneapolis Laphonso Ellis and Robert pack sparked a 40-13 second half run that allowed the nug gets to come Back from a 16-Point thirds Quarter deficit. We needed to do something different said pack who replaced Point guard Mahmoud Abdul Rauf at the Start of the run an played the rest of the game. Everyone on the Bench was saying yeah let s go let s do it but nobody was doing anything on the court. I was mad. I just tried to do something about Denver 39-39 is seeking its first winning season since 1989-90. ,., pacers 104, pistons 99 at Auburn Hills Mich., the pacers also clinched playoff spot and tied a team record with their 17th Road Victory of the we were 16-23we did t even know if we had a shot for the playoffs said Reggie Miller who scored14 and bacame Indiana s career leading scorer by pass ing Billy Knight s 10,780 Points. Now we Are in there and we still could get up to the fifth or sixth bullets 142, celtics 100 at Landover md., Don Maclean had 21 Points Cal Bert Cheaney 20, Kevin Duckworth a season High 18and Tom Gugliotta 18 As Washington ended a three game losing Streak with its biggest offensive output of the season. 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