THE SIDELINES : Sampson in Default on Loan

An $82,135 loan default judgment was granted today by a federal judge against center Ralph Sampson of the Sacramento Kings.

U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer took the action after Sampson of Harrisonburg, Va., who played college ball at the University of Virginia, did not respond to the case brought against him by Crestar Bank.

Sampson, 29, was served in Sacramento last month with a summons in the civil dispute. The application for the default judgment was filed Feb. 13 by the Richmond-based bank, which holds a note Sampson signed in April, 1986. In the note, Sampson agreed to pay half of the indebtedness, up to $125,000, of a $250,000 promissory note executed between Snyder & Associates of Blacksburg and the former Colonial American National Bank of Roanoke, according to papers filed in federal court here.