* Rights to MacLean traded with center William Bedford to the Clippers for center Olden Polynice and two future second-round draft choices.In sports, rare is the athlete who makes people stop what they’re doing – even it’s important – and pause in awe. Golden State Latrell Sprewell G Alabama 25. New York Hubert Davis G North Carolina 21. Philadelphia Clarence Weatherspoon F Southern Miss. Charlotte Alonzo Mourning C Georgetown 3. Orlando Shaquille O’Neal C Louisiana State 2. C8Ī look at the first round of the draft, held Wednesday in Portland, Ore. 12 to Miami, the first of four Southland collegians selected in first round. OVERVIEW: Harold Miner lasts longer than expected before going at No. He looked like he had the same green light I had in college-and my father was the coach.” Pfund on Clipper top pick Randy Woods of La Salle: “He’s a scorer. Randy Pfund is expected to announce his staff next week. Laker assistant coach Jim Eyen has resigned to join Mike Dunleavy’s staff in Milwaukee. We got a player we thought we were going to have to trade up higher in the second round to take.”. West on Cooper: “We thought he was one of the most impressive players in the Chicago camp. The only thing I need to do now is talk Vlade (Divac) out of No. It’s a dream come true, something I’ve always wanted to do. Duane Cooper on becoming a Laker: “I feel great. We wanted to take a player who we felt had a chance to have a career.”. Jerry West on Doug Christie: “There was a concern about his knee. He finished his collegiate career as the Tigers’ all-time leader in assists (479) and steals (196). It’s just something that happened.”Īnthony Peeler averaged 23.4 points as a senior at Missouri. The only way you can do good is look up and try to reach the stars.
I feel like since it happened, I’m a better person. You’ve just got to think before you do things. I’m just ready to get on with the Los Angeles Lakers. “I feel I’ve made some mistakes,” he said. Peeler watched the draft in the Laker front office and said he was overjoyed. “This is something that obviously wasn’t easy for us to do because we hadn’t been this high before.” I just got off the phone with him and he said we made the right choice. I work for an owner (Jerry Buss) who really supports us. “In every job, regardless of what you’re doing, you’re going to be subjected to criticism. “We’re going to view him as a player whose future is ahead of him and whose past is behind him. “Obviously all those things concern you when you hear them like that,” West said. When the second incident blew up three days before the draft, West asked Peeler to fly back immediately for another talk. They interviewed him after the first incident and found him soft-spoken and quick to smile. Knowing Stith was unlikely to be available when they picked, they focused on Peeler.
But at the Chicago pre-draft camp, they were alarmed by Christie’s knee, which had undergone arthroscopic surgery twice. The Lakers had begun the last month with a list headed by Pepperdine’s Doug Christie, Virginia’s Bryant Stith and Peeler. “While he’s doing that work, I’m doing this work.” “I’ll let him have his fun now while the draft is going down,” Brown told the St. Prosecutors, however, dropped the charges when Brown’s story changed.īrown said Wednesday in Kansas City she intends to file a civil suit against Peeler. The old girlfriend, Lanae Brown, 19, claimed Peeler hit her. However, he was arrested in a separate incident Sunday in Kansas City when a woman, who said she was Peeler’s former girlfriend, encountered him in a car with his current girlfriend.
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Peeler pleaded guilty last week to a felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon plus misdemeanor charges of restraint and assault. The police report alleged that he held a gun to her head and bit her on the cheek.Ĭharges were subsequently reduced. However, on May 30 Peeler was arrested in Columbia, Mo., in an incident with a woman. “He’s a drop at 15,” an Eastern Conference personnel director said. He went on to stardom and was projected as a lottery pick. The 6-foot-3, 212-pound Peeler, a ballyhooed high school player in Kansas City, went into a detox program for an alcohol problem after his freshman season at Missouri. The Lakers then chose USC point guard Duane Cooper on the second round, using the 36th pick they got from the Milwaukee Bucks as compensation for Mike Dunleavy.
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