European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Fri o is bite the Bui let Webber dealt for go 3 no. Is the stars and stripes november 19,1994 r Page 32 by David Ginsburg Landover my. A if Chris Webber and Juwan Howard have As much Success together in the Aba As they did at Michigan then John Nash won t regret trading away what he called the heart and soul of the Washington bullets. In the Span of five hours thursday Nash transformed Washington from a re builder into a contender in the Atlantic division. The Bullet pm first signed Howard to a multiyear contract then traded Tom Gugliotta and three first round picks to Golden state for Webber last season s Rookie of the year. The two were guaranteed More than $100 million according to the washing ton Post which reported Friday that Howard signed an 11-year Deal Worth $36.6 million and  a 12 year agreement Worth $66.1 million. Webber a 6-Foomo Forward who often played Center at Golden state averaged 17.5 Points and 9.1 rebounds and shot 55percent from the Field last season. How Ard 6-9, the fifth player chosen in this year s draft averaged 15.3 Points and 7.5 rebounds during his three years at Michi Gan. " ".-. Getting Webber Cost the bullets their first round picks in 1996,1998 and 2000. More importantly Nash had to give up Gugliotta the Centrepiece of washing ton s Young team and a co captains. I m concerned because we gave up a Quality player. Goods was the heart and soul of this team Nash said. The 6-10 Gugliotta averaged 15.8 Points and 9.5 rebounds since joining the bullets As their top draft pick in 1992. He Learned of the Trade shortly before Washington s Road game against the new Jer sey nets. The Deal came some 20 hours after the warriors re signed Webber who exercised his option to terminate a 15-year, $74 million contract in the of season and became a restricted free agent in june. The warriors had to sign Webber to Trade him. Optima san reigns As i it Volkl ipeg0i5l by Ken Rapp Oporta hockey writer citing an urgency to resolve the nil labor dispute negotiators ended two Days of meetings Fri Day in Boston with what they called very constructive Dia  we met for a Day and a half and we re going to get Back to work next monday nil com missioner Gary Bettman said. We had a constructive Day and a half of  Bettman said the nil and the nil players association scheduled another session Mon Day at an undisclosed  if the negotiators were close to salvaging the season Bettman said i Don t want to Handicap it. I Don t want to hold put false Hope. We have a disagreement on a number of the issues that need to be  but Boston Bruin Genera manager Harry Sinden who has expressed a hard line Pessi Ismall along appeared uncharacteristically  had two Days of very constructive dialogue. And we re going to continue it Mon Day Sinden said. I think we owe each other some answers on some different issues. We redoing to prepare that Over the weekend and present the an Swers on our position on differ ent issues on  baseball strikers Cool to owners new plan. ,e31 people on the other Sid seemed hopeful too. The nature of the talks Indi Cates Progress said Dallas goaltender Andy Moog who was present at Friday s talks along with Guy Carbonneau of the St. Louis blues. Nothing obviously has been agreed upon but there s a constructive nature to the talks being late in the season As we Are right now is a pressure Point and both sides Are feeling the pressure and realize some thing has to be  owners were said to be read to withdraw their demand for a payroll tax if the players com Promise on salary  Boston Herald citing an unidentified source said that the move could Lead to a new collective bargaining  know ownership was ready to pull the luxury tax off the table thursday afternoon the Herald quoted the source As saying after a 7-hour meeting thursday. While the negotiators were meeting thursday the league announced that 10 More games had been cancelled. Friday update Agassi wins group Frankfurt Germany a in the last round Robin match of the ism at men s Tennis championships no. 2 Andre Agassi beat Sergei Bru Guera 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to win his group. He will play Pete Sam Pras in the first of saturday s semifinals. Boris Becker will face bruguera no. 3. Earlier Story on Page 31 Miller withdraws from meet Dortmund Germany a the chances of a medal for the favored american team were Hurt when two time world Champion Shannon Miller dropped out of the gymnastics Houston s Hakeem Olajuwon and Chicago s Scot on rockets ran their season opening winning world team championships in tie Pippen 33 watch the Ball sail away thursday Streak to seven games with a 106-83 rout of the order to reduce her tournament after Bull Center Bill Wennington knocked it out bulls in Houston. See Page 30 for All of thurs Load. Of Olajuwon s hands. The defending Aba Champi Day s Aba action. Hands off 0"246850"000504"