His Armament Is Fine, If Only He Would Use It

San Antonio’s Doc Rivers wants teammate David Robinson to be more selfish on the floor.

“Sometimes, I’ll get the ball down to David and, even if he’s not double-teamed, he’ll pass the ball out to a teammate who is open,” Rivers told Glenn Rogers of the San Antonio Express-News.

“I just told him, ‘Forget that. When we get you the ball down the stretch, we want you to score.’ David is sometimes like a tank. Sometimes you open the top door and he’s using the small gun in there instead of the cannon on top.”

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Trivia time: Who was the first Laker to score 60 or more points in a game?

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Come again? Phil Collier in the San Diego Union-Tribune: “They tell about Yogi Berra watching an old Steve McQueen movie and saying: ‘He must have done that one before he died.’ ”

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Add Berra: Some of Yogi’s better-known sayings will appear on a collection of ties, scarves, vests and boxer shorts.

The line will be introduced Wednesday at a fashion show at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant in New York, where Berra’s late Yankee teammate often held court, but never at a fashion show.

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Tight fit: Although there were few employees in Charlie Finley’s office, the late Oakland Athletics’ owner loved to hand out titles. When he hired Joe DiMaggio as a public relations representative, he made him a vice president.

“I asked where my office would be,” DiMaggio said. “Charlie opened one empty drawer of his own desk and said, ‘This is your office.’ ”

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Add Finley: Art Spander, in the ESPNET SportsZone: “He had a front office of five people, one of whom was his cousin, Carl, a most decent human, and another of whom was a 15-year-old aide named Stanley Burrell. You know Burrell today as Hammer, the rap artist.”

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Wait a minute: Before Orlando played Chicago on Sunday at the United Center, Magic forward Dennis Scott said, “Oh, that would be sweet, spoil their record at home, knowing they can’t beat our [record] this year.”

Dream on, Dennis. The Bulls won easily, 111-91.

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Name game: Todd Phipers writes in the Denver Post that there is good reason Bimbo Coles goes by a nickname: “He was baptized Vernell Eufaye Coles.”

And Mookie Blaylock of the Atlanta Hawks prefers his nickname to Daron Oshay, his given name.

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Think again: Gene Collier in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “All you skeptics who said the Steelers would re-sign [quarterback] Neil O’Donnell the minute two obscure Caucasians win the NBA’s three-point and slam-dunk competitions are going to have to rephrase that.”

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Trivia answer: George Mikan, with 61 on Jan. 20, 1952, against the Rochester Royals when the Lakers were still in Minneapolis.

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Quotebook: Bo Jackson on his new movie career: “I’m not going to be another Brian Bosworth in ‘Stone Cold.’ I’m taking this very seriously.”