Pro Basketball
Dikembe Mutombo, the Denver Nuggets’ rookie center, will be the only first-year player in the NBA’s 42nd All-Star game on Feb. 9 in Orlando, Fla. Also selected as reserves for the West team were Otis Thorpe and Hakeem Olajuwon of Houston, Jeff Hornacek and Don Majerle of Phoenix, James Worthy of the Lakers and John Stockton of Utah. Picked as reserves for the East team were Scottie Pippen of Chicago, Reggie Lewis of Boston, Dennis Rodman and Joe Dumars of Detroit, Brad Daugherty and Mark Price of Cleveland, and Dominique Wilkins of Atlanta, though Wilkins suffered a ruptured Achilles’ tendon Tuesday.
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