BRIEFLY : KEMP TRADED TO CAVALIERS IN 3-TEAM DEAL.

Shawn Kemp's trade demand was fulfilled Thursday night when the Seattle SuperSonics made a three-way trade with Milwaukee and Cleveland, sending Kemp to the Cavaliers in a swap also involving All-Stars Vin Baker and Terrell Brandon.

The Sonics will receive Baker and Sherman Douglas from Milwaukee and the Bucks will get Brandon and Tyrone Hill. A significant amount of money also will be included in the deal, although it was not immediately clear who would receive it.

A trade of Kemp had been expected since the disgruntled forward declared last May that he had worn a Sonics uniform for the final time.

Kemp became increasingly frustrated last season, both with his long-term contract paying him $3.6 million and his belief that someone in the organization had told the media that Kemp had a drinking problem.

In dealing Baker, it seems the Bucks decided that their best player would exercise an out clause in his contract and become a free agent in 1999.

And in Cleveland, it was known that both Brandon and Hill were unhappy. Brandon can become a free agent in two years, Hill in one.

The trade sends Kemp to one of the few teams with enough salary-cap room to rip up his contract and give him a new deal. The Cavs, who were spurned by every free agent they approached this summer, have about $9.5 million in salary-cap room.

The Utah Jazz signed center Greg Ostertag to a contract extension worth a reported $30 million over six years.

GOLF: Doctors say the cancer found in 54-year-old Larry Gilbert's lungs is inoperable, but they are holding out hope that chemotherapy can fight it off.

The 1997 Senior Players Championship winner was diagnosed Sept. 2 during a routine physical while at home in Lexington, Ky. Doctors discovered a small tumor on his lung and believed it was in the early stages, but further tests found the cancer had spread through the bloodstream and had reached the bone of Gilbert's shoulder and ribs.

Greg Kraft sank a 3-foot birdie putt on his final hole to complete a round of 66 and take a one-stroke lead over six players in the first round of the B.C. Open at Endicott, N.Y.

Liselotte Neumann, who got her ninth LPGA career victory last week in the Welch's Championship, shot a 6-under-par 66 to open the Fieldcrest Cannon Classic at Cornelius, N.C., putting her in a five-way tie for the lead. Also carding 66s were Kelly Robbins, Wendy Ward, Val Skinner and Rachel Hetherington.

USC freshman golfer Nicole Dalkas shot a 1-under 72 and is tied for second after three rounds of the Dick McGuire Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M.

UCLA leads the event with a score of 300, two strokes ahead of Texas Christian and four ahead of USC.

BOXING:Nine years after he lost the Olympic gold medal in a boxing match that secret-police documents later said was fixed, boxer Roy Jones received the Olympic Order, the highest honor of the International Olympic Committee, for ``outstanding merit in the course of world sport.''

Although it conducted its own investigation and decided there was insufficient evidence to overturn the light-middleweight victory of South Korea's Park Si-hun at the Seoul Games, the IOC said the order was not a consolation prize.

It was awarded as much for Jones' dignity under duress and work in anti-drug programs as for anything he has done in becoming the WBC light-heavyweight champion, IOC vice president Anita DeFrantz said.

ALSO: British fighter pilot Andy Green shattered the world land speed record in Gerlach, Nev., going nearly 74 mph faster than his boss went in setting the mark 14 years ago. The Thrust SSC team headed by Richard Noble shrugged off the threat of showers for two blazing runs in the Black Rock Desert 125 miles north of Reno. Green pushed Noble's jet-powered car to 700.661 mph on the first of two timed dashes down the 13-mile course, then turned around within the allotted one hour for a 714.144-mph clincher. His average of 707.4 mph shattered the 633.47 mph Noble established on Oct. 4, 1983. . . . The Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Steelers promised to contribute a combined $85 million toward proposed stadiums to replace 27-year-old Three Rivers Stadium. . . . USC women's soccer team forward Isabelle Harvey, the Pacific-10's leading scorer last season, will make her return today after being sidelined for five months with knee surgery. Harvey, who led the conference with 20 goals last season, is scheduled to play when the Trojans host Loyola Marymount at 3 p.m. at the Coliseum.

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