July 26, 1994
FORWARD DETLEF Schrempf has signed a 5-year contract - for a reported $20 million - the Seattle SuperSonics announced Monday. Schrempf, 31, said he received three other serious offers and heard from ''a few other teams.'' All five years of Schrempf's new contract are guaranteed, agent Jeff Neal said.
Schrempf, who exercised a clause making himself an unrestricted free agent, elected to stay with Seattle, despite the controversial departure of longtime President and General Manager Bob Whitsitt, who since has taken the general manager's post in Portland.
Schrempf said he wanted to stay in Seattle because it has been his off-season home and it is where he went to college. He said he also thinks the Sonics have the talent to win an NBA championship next season.
COLEMAN CASE REVIEWED
PROSECUTORS COULD decide this week whether to seek charges against New Jersey Nets star Derrick Coleman, who is accused of raping a woman at the Westin Hotel in downtown Detroit on July 14. Police forwarded the case to Wayne County prosecutors, according to Deputy Police Chief Benny Napoleon.
Richard Padzieski, chief of operations at the prosecutor's office, said he was reviewing the case and said several others also would look at it before officials decide whether to charge Coleman. A decision could come as early as today, Padzieski said.
He has denied the allegations. The woman, 22, said she met Coleman at a topless bar, and they went back to his hotel room. She said he made advances that she rejected and then he raped her. She was found crying on the steps of police headquarters the next morning.
Napoleon said the results of all tests were completed and included in the report. He said results were conclusive, but ''I won't say what they're conclusive of.'' Detroit television station WDIV reported last week that semen samples taken from the woman's dress did not match blood samples taken from Coleman.
NBA roll call
DETROIT PISTONS
Acquired C Eric Leckner from the Philadelphia 76ers for a second-round draft pick in 1996 or 1997.
