Bulls Lose Wennington
The Chicago Bulls on Monday lost Bill Wennington for the remainder of the regular season with a ruptured tendon in his left foot.
Last week, Dennis Rodman was declared out for the rest of the regular season after spraining the medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Bulls coach Phil Jackson said Monday there was an outside chance Rodman could play in a couple of the final regular-season games.
Wennington, who averaged 4.7 points and two rebounds in 60 games mostly as a backup center - he had 19 starts - suffered his latest injury in the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s victory over New Jersey. His status for the postseason is undetermined.
Malone MVP?
Karl Malone for MVP? The Utah Jazz are launching a campaign this week to turn that question into a statement.
Having arguably his best season in 12 with the streaking Utah Jazz, Malone is getting his own home page on the Internet.
The Jazz public relations office describes the page as the first step in a campaign to boost the power forward’s stock in balloting for the NBA’s most valuable player.
The club is working with the NBA and Starwave, the league’s Internet provider for NBA.com, to design the home page, which team officials hope will be on-line by today.
Players tanked Hill
The 13 Orlando Magic players convened in Penny Hardaway’s hotel suite in Minneapolis and one by one gave their thoughts on coach Brian Hill.
They then took a formal vote, using parliamentary procedure, and unanimously decided the coach must go, The Orlando Sentinel reported.
Hardaway then called general manager John Gabriel on a cell phone. Less than a week later Hill was fired.
“The purpose of the meeting wasn’t to discuss how we should fire coach Hill,” Hardaway said of the Feb. 13 vote. “But everyone had comments to make and they were all basically negative. We didn’t like the offense we were running and we weren’t comfortable with the defensive schemes.”
Hill became the Magic’s second coach before the 1993-94 season, replacing Matt Guokas. When his 3-year reign ended in February, he had a 191-104 overall record and had coached the Magic to three Eastern Conference finals and one NBA Final.