1.   Auerbach and Celtics owner Walter Brown made the first move toward integration with the second-round draft selection of Cooper, who played at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

2.   Brown, the Giants fifth-round draft selection last year, missed all of last season with a lacerated kidney but has had a strong camp this year.

3.   But because Burress was such a high draft selection, more, perhaps unfairly, was expected of him.

4.   But he also made a curious draft selection in Rod Strickland, starting a point guard controversy which never had to be.

5.   Defensive end Courtney Brown, linebacker Brandon Short and cornerback David Macklin join him as future first-round draft selections.

6.   Hartford immediately turned around and sent Dowd and defenseman Frantisek Kucera to Vancouver for defenseman Jeff Brown and an exchange of future draft selections.

7.   Last season, Nebraska produced the highest NBA draft selection from a Big Eight school.

8.   Next Wednesday, the day the National Basketball Association teams make their draft selections, Stewart and Oakley could be made teammates or opponents.

9.   The National Football League comes next, and experts see him as a high first-round draft selection.

10.   The one draft selection Grier and Parcells disagreed on produced Terry Glenn.