This And That

Sun., Feb. 22, 1998

Associated Press

Nick Van Exel has started a trend with his palms-down hands gesture, the opposite of the “raise the roof” motion of extending both arms skyward, palms open, after making a nice play. “I only do it on the road, to shut up the building, keep the crowd quiet,” Van Exel explained. “It’s the opposite of ‘raise the roof.”’ … … There are no more remaining members of the original Raptors. Zan Tabak, traded to Boston on Wednesday, was the last player to have been with Toronto continuously since the franchise entered the NBA in 1995… . Of the top 15 draftees in the 1995 class, the first to be tied to the three-year rookie wage scale, 13 have been traded. The other two are Kevin Garnett of Minnesota and Bryant Reeves of Vancouver… . Kendall Gill of the Nets, after shooting an airball on a free throw and missing the rim by a good 3 feet, blamed it on El Nino.

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