BRIEFLY: NETS AND MARTIN READY TO GET GOING.

Not five minutes into a news conference to announce the signing of the NBA's No. 1 draft pick, Kenyon Martin made a pre-emptive strike.

``No questions about the leg,'' the New Jersey Nets' new power forward said Wednesday after agreeing to a contract expected to be worth $11.3 million over three years.

The 6-foot-9 Martin's readiness to play had been a question mark because of the broken right leg and ankle ligament damage that ended his senior season at Cincinnati in March.

But Martin, fresh from Pete Newell's Big Man Camp in Hawaii, says he performed well against players like Austin Croshere, Sean Elliott and former Nets center Shawn Bradley.

``He will, believe me, fulfill everything that we think he should fulfill,'' said new Nets coach Byron Scott. ``We're going to utilize him in every way possible.''

-- Sean Elliott, who helped the San Antonio Spurs win the world championship in 1999, is leaning toward returning for another season with the team, according to a report in the San Antonio Express-News.

Elliott missed more than 60 games last season after recovering from a kidney transplant, but returned at the end of the season.

PREP BASKETBALL: Canyon High assistant Chad Philips, 24, has been named boys' basketball coach at Canyon High, succeeding David Humphreys, who resigned earlier this month to take a college assistant's job.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: The University of Georgia announced Wednesday that point guard Kenny Brunner won't be admitted to the school.

Athletic director Vince Dooley gave basketball coach Jim Harrick permission last week to recruit Brunner, whose college career has been plagued by off-court problems.

Brunner began his career at Georgetown, averaging 11.2 points and 7.3 assists in 1998 before transferring to Fresno State.

On May 22, 1998, Los Angeles City College coach Mike Miller said Brunner took $1,500 after pointing a gun at him and pulling the trigger in a gym. The gun misfired.

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL: The team from Davenport, Iowa, became the first from the Central Region to reach the U.S. Pool championships at the Little League World Series, eliminating Vancouver, Wash., 6-4.

Justin Evans had two hits and scored twice, including the go-ahead run in the fifth inning that clinched the victory.

Davenport, which earlier this week ended the Central Region's three-year losing drought at the Series, will meet Bellaire, Texas, in today's final.

TENNIS: Monica Seles methodically marched into the semifinals of the Pilot Pen with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Dominique Van Roost in New Haven, Conn.

- Daily News Wire Services