DEALS SET FOR PIPPEN, SPREWELL.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A wild period of NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= wheeling and dealing wheeling and dealing Noun shrewd and sometimes unscrupulous moves made in order to advance one's own interests wheeler-dealer n hit its full stride Monday. The Associated Press reported that Scottie Pippen Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965 in Hamburg, Arkansas) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). will be traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Houston Rockets as soon as the lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout ends later this week and that the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks will acquire controversial Latrell Sprewell from Golden State. The Bulls will sign Pippen to a deal worth $67.2 million for five years before trading him and get forward Roy Rogers and a second-round draft pick in return. Although the salaries for Pippen and Rogers do not match, the deal is allowable under NBA rules because Houston will have enough salary-cap room to fit in Pippen's contract. His salary for this season will be $10.6 million. The deal will not be finalized until the lockout ends Wednesday or Thursday. ``We're not going to confirm anything,'' Rockets spokesman Tim Frank said. ``The lockout is technically not over. We're still under lockout restrictions. No deal can officially be done until that cloak is lifted.'' Pippen, a six-time champion with the Bulls, talked to the Rockets about signing with them as a free agent. It was not immediately clear why he agreed to a sign-and-trade deal, but other teams were also discussing similar deals involving Pippen with Bulls general manager Jerry Krause. The acquisition of Pippen should clear the way for Charles Barkley to re-sign with Houston, giving the Rockets a formidable front line of Barkley, Pippen and Hakeem Olajuwon. The Knicks apparently won the Sprewell sweepstakes after Golden State general manager Garry St. Jean Garry St. Jean is a former professional basketball coach and executive. St. Jean has been the head coach of two NBA teams. From 1992 through 1997, he coached the Sacramento Kings. told all the interested teams to make their best offers by Monday afternoon. Sprewell, a three-time All-Star, drew the longest non-drug-related suspension in league history last season for choking his coach, P.J. Carlesimo. It was not immediately clear who the Knicks would send to the Warriors. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) PIPPEN (2--Color) SPREWELL |
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