BULLS WIN EASILY, CONQUER EUROPE.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

The five-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls can now call themselves true world champions.

The Bulls beat European champion Olympiakos 104-78 Saturday in the finals of the McDonald's Championship in Paris as Michael Jordan scored 27 points and put on the kind of show that French fans paid big money to see.

``I think hopefully the fans were pretty pleased despite the little time I was on the basketball court,'' said Jordan, who played 29 minutes.

Scalpers got as much as $300 for tickets and the Bulls - unlike in their sluggish, disjointed semifinal win over Paris-St. Germain - didn't disappoint the sellout crowd of 13,515.

NBA teams are now 16-0 in this 10-year-old event and the Bulls - without injured Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman - played like it mattered in a game that drew more than 1,000 reporters from more than 50 countries.

Randy Brown added 12 points for the Bulls and Steve Kerr had 10. Lithuanian forward Arturas Karnisovas - voted the best player last season in Europe - led Olympiakos with 19 points and Franco Nakic had 16 for the Greeks, who shot only 36.2 percent to 52 for the Bulls.

Jordan's finest move came with just over four minutes left in the first half when he gave the locals what they came to see as he skirted the baseline, swooped under the basket and stalled out in midair to score and draw the foul.

``I think a lot of people in the stands were looking for something unique,'' said Jordan, who is shown in polls to be the most popular athlete in France.

``It just happened to go in and I was pretty amazed to get the shot up.''

Dozens of banners and hand-made pennants waved from the stands in reply. ``Be Legendary MJ,'' read one. ``His Airness Came on Earth to Bless Us,'' went another. ``Give Us a Show Michael - Germany Loves the Bulls,'' yet another.

Several times Jordan said he put a ``little extra mustard on top of the hot dog'' to please the fans and good-naturedly challenge opponents.

``I think I could sense the competition in their eyes at a challenge,'' Jordan said. ``A couple of times I gave a head and shoulder fake and I felt like they were anticipating the worst.

``If they were dreaming of playing Michael Jordan all alone, this was their opportunity. This is not television, they couldn't change the channel.

``I gave one guy (Milan Tomic) a fake and I thought he lost his shoes. He was laughing about it, so I laughed.''

It was that kind of night as the Bulls played intense defense throughout, clogged up Olympiakos' big men in the middle and ran faster and shot better to go up 54-43 at halftime.

The only sour note was Toni Kukoc, who is nursing a foot injury that might need surgery, Bulls coach Phil Jackson said.

The Bulls were up 75-60 after three quarters and went ahead 84-62 on a 3-pointer by Kerr with 9:29 to play. The lead grew to 93-68 a few minutes later on 11 unanswered points keyed by two steals by Brown.

Counteracting Olympiakos' size - led by 6-foot-10 Serb-born Dragan Tarlac - the Bulls started a big lineup that included 6-11 Kukoc, 7-2 Luc Longley, 6-8 Jason Caffey, Jordan and Ron Harper.

Only one NBA team has ever lost to an international side. That came in 1986 when the Atlanta Hawks - fielding an under-strength club on a summer trip - lost to the Soviet national team in Moscow.

Going or staying? Houston's Clyde Drexler had said this would be his final season.

Now, he's not so sure.

``I'm going to play this year and look at what I have on the table and make my decision,'' the 35-year-old guard said. ``Whether I want to play or not is the first decision. The second is where.''

There are rumblings that Panathinaikos - a team that features former NBA players Byron Scott and Dino Radja - has approached Drexler about playing in Greece next season. Reports out of Greece indicate the club has already reached an oral agreement with Drexler for a two-year, $13 million deal beginning when his contract with the Rockets expires in July.

Drexler said that's false.

``It's against the rules,'' Drexler said. ``But I can listen.''

If he doesn't re-sign with the Rockets or land in another NBA city, would Drexler consider ending his career overseas?

``I'm going to look at everything,'' he said. ``There are some offers out there.

``You never say never.''

Shawnless in Seattle: There is an uneasiness surrounding the Seattle SuperSonics as they get ready to face life without Shawn Kemp.

It could turn out to be an overwhelming experience.

``We've struggled a little,'' coach George Karl said. ``A lot of it's because of new faces.''

And, Karl didn't say, the loss of an old face - Kemp, who won a staredown with Sonics owner Barry Ackerley and was rewarded with a new $107 million contract by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Ackerley has only himself to blame that Kemp is gone.

Kemp was distressed in Seattle because he was paid last season as the NBA's 18th-best power forward, although he was regarded as second best to Utah's Karl Malone.

On Thursday night, Seattle lost its fourth of five exhibition games when Vin Baker made his debut at the Key Arena in a Sonics uniform.

Baker, acquired from Milwaukee in the three-team trade last month that sent Kemp to Cleveland, played well, blocking four shots, grabbing nine rebounds and scoring 11 points.

But he was no Kemp. The high-leaping, emotional Kemp thrilled crowds with his athletic, acrobatic moves. Kemp scored on dazzling alley-oop dunks and could carry the Sonics. The quiet, unspectacular Baker is not that type of player.

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PHOTO Bulls star Michael Jordan and coach Phil Jackson wave to the crowd after beating Greece in the final.

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