BRIEFLY : MALONE GETS 4-YEAR DEAL.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services As expected, Karl Malone will finish his career with the Utah Jazz. The Jazz held a news conference Sunday to announce Malone had signed a new four-year deal. Malone's agent, Dwight Manley, said it's worth $66.5 million, with an immediate payment of the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= maximum salary - $14 million - for next season. Although Malone was a free agent, there was never a doubt he would stay in Utah, which drafted him with the 13th overall pick back in 1985. In other NBA signings: Keith Van Horn For the American football player, see . Keith Adam Van Horn (born October 23 1975, in Fullerton, California) is an American basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks. Van Horn graduated from Diamond Bar High School and played for the University of Utah. and Jamie Feick re-signed with New Jersey. The Nets rewarded Van Horn for leading the team in scoring in his first two years with a six-year deal with about $73 million. . . . Phoenix signed veteran center Oliver Miller to a one-year contract, bringing the free agent back to the team that originally drafted him with its first pick in 1992. . . . The Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. is reporting the Pistons will sign free agent Michael Curry to a five-year, $12 million deal. The paper also says Detroit will re-sign Jud Buechler. . . . Boston signed guard Adrian Griffin, the MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. of the Continental Basketball Association This article is about the American CBA. For the CBA in China, see Chinese Basketball Association. The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) is a professional men's basketball league in the United States. last season. SURFING: Neco Paradatz and Fabio Gouveia formed the first all-Brazilian final in a surfing World Championship Tour event since 1977 at the Gotcha (jargon, programming) gotcha - A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. Pro in Huntington Beach. Paradatz, one of four wild-card entries in the 48-surfer event, slashed across three-foot waves, wowed the crowd and took an early lead. He held on to beat Gouveia, 22.5 to 19.25. SWIMMING: Germany's Sandra Volker broke her own world record in the 50-meter backstroke at the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Volker was first off the blocks to finish in 28.71 to break her record of 28.78 set last month. VOLLEYBALL: Karch Kiraly and Adam Johnson defeated former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX setter Stein Metzger and Carlos Loss of Brazil 15-4 in the final of the Karch Kiraly Classic at East Beach in Santa Barbara. The tournament was named after Kiraly, a four-time All-American at UCLA, earlier this season after he became the all-time winningest beach pro with 140 titles. |
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