Mark Price

Mark Price, the Washington Bullets' newly acquired point guard, will miss at least two weeks with a chronically sore foot. He left training camp in Shepherdstown, W. Va., and returned to Washington yesterday to have the foot examined. Price, acquired from the Cleveland Cavaliers for next season's No. 1 Bullets draft choice, could practice in the last week of the preseason, Bullets general manager John Nash said. LAKERS. Guard Eddie Jones, who averaged 14 points and 3.9 rebounds as a rookie last season, will be out for up to eight weeks with an injury to his left thumb.

Washington Bullets guard Mark Price, who missed 34 games last season with injuries, will undergo surgery on his left foot Friday and is expected to be sidelined about two months. The four-time All-Star, who was acquired by Washington from Cleveland Sept. 27, has not played in any games for the Bullets this season because of a plantar fascitis injury, an inflammation of the tissue that runs from the heel to the toes. It is the same injury that hobbled him in the second half of last season and into the playoffs.

Doug Overton could not be considered a principal in the trade that sent him and Don MacLean from Washington to Denver for Robert Pack. But that doesn't mean the former La Salle University guard can't become one. "Doug's a solid player, somebody we like, but I told him he's going to have to be patient with me," Nuggets coach Bernie Bickerstaff said. "My intentions are to use three guards - Jalen Rose, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Bryant Stith - leaving Doug and Randy Woods (another former La Salle star)

Early in the third quarter, Mark Price was left dizzy after a collision with Isiah Thomas. After the cobwebs cleared, though, Price delivered the knockout punch to the Detroit Pistons. Price scored six points down the stretch and the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers defeated Detroit, 107-103, last night as the Pistons tied a club record with their 10th straight home loss. "That's what he does," Cavs coach Mike Fratello said. "He has a real knack for making big shots. Mark gets battered and bruised and banged around, but he just keeps going.

Rasheed Wallace wound up sharing top billing with Mark Price and his mother yesterday. Wallace, the former Simon Gratz High superstar and the fourth pick overall in the NBA draft, signed a three-year, $6.18 million contract with the Washington Bullets. He answered a few questions from reporters, then called on his mother, Jackie Wallace, to make a comment. She walked to the podium at the Hard Rock Cafe in Washington, looked at Bullets general manager John Nash, and said: "I have one question for Mr. Nash - who's going to get my son the ball?"

Ask and you shall receive. Jackie Wallace knows that. So on the day that her son, Simon Gratz product Rasheed Wallace, signed a multiyear contract with the Washington Bullets, Jackie asked. And Bullets general manager John Nash had quite an answer. Wallace, 21, answered a few questions from the media and then called upon Jackie to make a comment or two. She looked toward Nash and said, "The only question I have is, 'Who's going to get my son the ball?' " Nash replied: "I'm here to tell you that Mark Price is the new point guard for the Washington Bullets.

There is no telling how many points Mark Price might have scored if it had been a close one. Price sank a team-record seven three-point shots and scored 36 points yesterday to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to their ninth straight win, a 123-102 thrashing of the visiting Boston Celtics. The Cavs' streak is two short of the franchise record of 11 set last February and March. Playing just 27 minutes, and not at all in the fourth quarter, Price made seven of his nine three-point attempts and converted a four-point play, the second of his career and sixth in team history.

Johnny Dawkins of the 76ers and Mark Price of the Cleveland Cavaliers looked each other in the eyes again last night and shook hands before the shooting started in Richfield, Ohio. As with their greeting on Tuesday night at the Spectrum, it was more than just the usual pregame ritual. "We shared a moment and wished each other well," said Dawkins of their first meeting. "We both know how hard it was to get back here and you just want to wish the other fellow well. I'm glad to see him back, even if it's not always fun to play against him. " Dawkins and Price have both come back from major knee surgery, the result of ligament damage suffered last November.

The thought of playing the Los Angeles Lakers can strike fear in the hearts of any NBA team. But now there are reports that at least one player wants no parts of playing Magic Johnson and Co. Last Sunday, the Lake County News, a suburban Cleveland daily, reported that the Cavs' star guard, Mark Price, asked out of the Los Angeles game two weeks ago, claiming he had a hip pointer. He irritated several unnamed teammates the next day when he felt well enough to dunk in practice, the newspaper said.

The Sixers, whose Saturday game against the Denver Nuggets was canceled because of the blizzard, resume play here tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers. It will be a cranky bunch of Cavaliers who show up to play them, too. Cleveland was also scheduled to play on Saturday night, against the Washington Bullets in the Baltimore Arena. Even though both teams and all three officials were present, the game was postponed because the Bullets didn't want to lose the money a sellout crowd would provide.

Mark Price could have played another season, but he was frustrated by the injuries, weary of all the moving around and eager to get on with the rest of his life. So, one of the greatest shooters in NBA history announced his retirement yesterday, ending a 12-year career that included four All-Star games, a spot on Dream Team II and some memorable battles with Michael Jordan. "It is time," Price said during a news conference at Atlanta's Alexander Memorial Coliseum, where he starred for Georgia Tech in the 1980s.

Washington Bullets guard Mark Price, who missed 34 games last season with injuries, will undergo surgery on his left foot Friday and is expected to be sidelined about two months. The four-time All-Star, who was acquired by Washington from Cleveland Sept. 27, has not played in any games for the Bullets this season because of a plantar fascitis injury, an inflammation of the tissue that runs from the heel to the toes. It is the same injury that hobbled him in the second half of last season and into the playoffs.

Doug Overton could not be considered a principal in the trade that sent him and Don MacLean from Washington to Denver for Robert Pack. But that doesn't mean the former La Salle University guard can't become one. "Doug's a solid player, somebody we like, but I told him he's going to have to be patient with me," Nuggets coach Bernie Bickerstaff said. "My intentions are to use three guards - Jalen Rose, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Bryant Stith - leaving Doug and Randy Woods (another former La Salle star)

Mark Price, the Washington Bullets' newly acquired point guard, will miss at least two weeks with a chronically sore foot. He left training camp in Shepherdstown, W. Va., and returned to Washington yesterday to have the foot examined. Price, acquired from the Cleveland Cavaliers for next season's No. 1 Bullets draft choice, could practice in the last week of the preseason, Bullets general manager John Nash said. LAKERS. Guard Eddie Jones, who averaged 14 points and 3.9 rebounds as a rookie last season, will be out for up to eight weeks with an injury to his left thumb.

Ask and you shall receive. Jackie Wallace knows that. So on the day that her son, Simon Gratz product Rasheed Wallace, signed a multiyear contract with the Washington Bullets, Jackie asked. And Bullets general manager John Nash had quite an answer. Wallace, 21, answered a few questions from the media and then called upon Jackie to make a comment or two. She looked toward Nash and said, "The only question I have is, 'Who's going to get my son the ball?' " Nash replied: "I'm here to tell you that Mark Price is the new point guard for the Washington Bullets.

Rasheed Wallace wound up sharing top billing with Mark Price and his mother yesterday. Wallace, the former Simon Gratz High superstar and the fourth pick overall in the NBA draft, signed a three-year, $6.18 million contract with the Washington Bullets. He answered a few questions from reporters, then called on his mother, Jackie Wallace, to make a comment. She walked to the podium at the Hard Rock Cafe in Washington, looked at Bullets general manager John Nash, and said: "I have one question for Mr. Nash - who's going to get my son the ball?"

There is no telling how many points Mark Price might have scored if it had been a close one. Price sank a team-record seven three-point shots and scored 36 points yesterday to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to their ninth straight win, a 123-102 thrashing of the visiting Boston Celtics. The Cavs' streak is two short of the franchise record of 11 set last February and March. Playing just 27 minutes, and not at all in the fourth quarter, Price made seven of his nine three-point attempts and converted a four-point play, the second of his career and sixth in team history.

Early in the third quarter, Mark Price was left dizzy after a collision with Isiah Thomas. After the cobwebs cleared, though, Price delivered the knockout punch to the Detroit Pistons. Price scored six points down the stretch and the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers defeated Detroit, 107-103, last night as the Pistons tied a club record with their 10th straight home loss. "That's what he does," Cavs coach Mike Fratello said. "He has a real knack for making big shots. Mark gets battered and bruised and banged around, but he just keeps going.

His father piled a few friends in the family van Monday and drove from Oklahoma to Chicago to jump-start Mark Price's stalled offense. The father, Denny, is a coach, with a mechanic's eye for knocks and pings in a shooting stroke. Father and son spoke before Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Mark won't say what advice his father gave. "I don't want to give away my secrets," he said. But whatever Denny Price found rattling under the hood needed only minor adjustments.

The Sixers, whose Saturday game against the Denver Nuggets was canceled because of the blizzard, resume play here tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers. It will be a cranky bunch of Cavaliers who show up to play them, too. Cleveland was also scheduled to play on Saturday night, against the Washington Bullets in the Baltimore Arena. Even though both teams and all three officials were present, the game was postponed because the Bullets didn't want to lose the money a sellout crowd would provide.