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A Roundup of the Week Feb. 9-15
Compiled by Cathrine Wolf
February 23, 1987
PRO BASKETBALL—The road, generally hazardous to NBA teams, proved relatively hospitable. Visitors, who had won only 176 of 538 games entering the week, were 5-0 on Wednesday and 17-19 overall. Boston led the way, marching through Denver 119-105, Golden State 134-112 and Portland 131-116 before falling 106-103 to the Lakers in a clash of titans (page 20). In the Atlantic Division, the Celtics had a nine-game edge over Philadelphia, which lost Charles Barkley and three games. Detroit won twice on the road—123-113 in OT over Philadelphia and 113-109 over Cleveland—before coming home to a league-record crowd of 52,745 at the Pontiac Silverdome, where it took an outright Central Division lead with a 125-107 win over the Sixers. Atlanta was 1� games back after losses to Golden State 103-96 and Portland 98-93. While visiting New Jersey, Houston coach Bill Fitch became the fifth NBA coach to win 700 regular-season games when the Rockets beat the Nets 121-99. Only Red Auerbach, Jack Ramsay, Dick Motta and Gene Shue have more. The Rockets were three games behind Utah and six behind Midwest Division leader Dallas, which sandwiched wins over Portland 135-115 and the Clippers 138-107 around a 129-125 loss to Sacramento. The Lakers led Portland by eight games in the Pacific, after beating the Kings 114-98 and Indiana 113-108.
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February 23, 1987

A Roundup Of The Week Feb. 9-15

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SKIING—INGEMAR STENMARK of Sweden won his 40th World Cup slalom race, in Markstein, France; PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN of Switzerland won a giant slalom in Todtnau, West Germany; and VRENI SCHNEIDER of Switzerland won the women's slalom and giant slalom in France.

SPEED SKATING—NIKOLAI GULYAEV of the Soviet Union set a world record of 1:52.70 in the 1,500 meters and took second in the 500 and 5,000 to win the overall men's world championship title, in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. LEO VISSER of the Netherlands established a world record in the 5,000 (6:47.01), and GEIR KARLSTAD of Norway set a world mark in the 10,000 (14:03.92).

TENNIS—STEFAN EDBERG won the U.S. National Indoor Championship and $45,000, in Memphis, when Jimmy Connors was forced to retire due to a knee injury. Edberg was leading 6-3, 2-1.

Zina Garrison beat Sylvia Hanika 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win $33,300 and the Virginia Slims of California tournament, in San Francisco.

TRACK & FIELD—WERNER GUNTHOR of Switzerland set a world indoor shot-put record with a toss of 73'�", 4�" better than Ulf Timmermann's two-year-old mark, in Magglingen, Switzerland; IGOR LOTORYEV of the Soviet Union ran the 1,000 meters in 2:18.0 to shave .58 of a second off Sebastian Coe's four-year-old record, in Moscow; and YORDANKA DONKOVA of Bulgaria improved the women's 60-meter hurdles mark by .01 with a 7.74, in Sofia, Bulgaria.

MILEPOSTS—ARRESTED: Indianapolis Colts quarterback JACK TRUDEAU, 24, on charges of battery on a police officer and disorderly conduct, both of which he denies, following an incident outside an Indianapolis restaurant.

AWARDED: To Detroit Tiger pitcher JACK MORRIS, 31, the richest contract in salary arbitration history, by arbiter Richard Bloch. Morris, who had a 21-8 record with a major league-leading six shutouts, will receive $1.85 million for one season rather than the $1.35 million the Tigers offered.

FIRED: As head coach of the Sacramento Kings, PHIL JOHNSON, 45, who had a 14-32 record this season. Kings assistant JERRY REYNOLDS, 43, was named interim coach.

SIGNED: By the Baltimore Orioles, third baseman RAY KNIGHT, 34, who won 1986 World Series MVP honors with the New York Mets, to a one-year contract worth $500,000.

TRADED: By the San Antonio Spurs, forward-center MYCHAL THOMPSON, 32, to the Los Angeles Lakers for forward-center FRANK BRICKOWSKI, 27, center PETUR GUDMUNDSSON, 28, two draft choices and cash.

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