Lloyd Daniels

The Sacramento Kings signed Lloyd Daniels, 29, who last played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers two years ago. He averaged 6.9 points, 2.1 assists and 1.3 assists in 30 games that season. * The Miami Heat hired former Laker Coach Randy Pfund as general manager and announced the resignation of Dave Wohl, executive vice president of basketball operations.

Lloyd Daniels is getting another shot at the NBA, this time with the Toronto Raptors. Toronto on Tuesday signed Daniels and Bob McCann to 10-day contracts. Daniels, a 6-foot-7 guard, had been with the Idaho Stampede of the Continental Basketball Assn. since Dec. 12. He had the second-best scoring average in the CBA, averaging 21 points a game after 12 games. Daniels, 30, never played college basketball, though he enrolled at Nevada Las Vegas, before signing his first NBA contract in 1992.

The slumping New Jersey Nets signed swingman Lloyd Daniels to an NBA-minimum contract. Daniels, 29, will be playing for his fourth NBA team. He also played four years in the Continental Basketball Assn., most recently with the Fort Wayne Fury. * The Miami Heat put forward-guard Dan Majerle on the injured list because of a lower back strain. Majerle had started every game this season, averaging 13.1 points, third-best on the team. His 41.5 minutes per-game average ranks second in the NBA.

The slumping New Jersey Nets signed swingman Lloyd Daniels to an NBA-minimum contract. Daniels, 29, will be playing for his fourth NBA team. He also played four years in the Continental Basketball Assn., most recently with the Fort Wayne Fury. * The Miami Heat put forward-guard Dan Majerle on the injured list because of a lower back strain. Majerle had started every game this season, averaging 13.1 points, third-best on the team. His 41.5 minutes per-game average ranks second in the NBA.

University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball recruit Lloyd Daniels pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of attempting to buy rock cocaine earlier this year. Daniels, a 6-foot-8 former prep star from New York City, must enter a three-month drug rehabilitation program and undergo twice-weekly urinalysis, under terms of a plea bargain. If he successfully completes drug counseling, Daniels, 19, must appear in court again to have his misdemeanor record sealed.

Lloyd Daniels, who was a controversial basketball player when he was playing in the United States, apparently was no less controversial during a brief career in New Zealand. He has been dismissed from the New Zealand Basketball Federation for missing practice and drinking too much beer, according to Newsday. Dave MacCalman, coach of the Waitemata team in Auckland, said Daniels appeared in just four games with the team.

Lloyd Daniels, one of the most controversial basketball players ever to enroll at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has never played a game for the Runnin' Rebels and probably never will. Arrested in a North Las Vegas drug bust last February, Daniels, 19, has entered a three-month drug rehabilitation program and has said he hopes to play professional basketball next year.

Dressed all in black, Lloyd Daniels took up a shooting position just beyond the three-point line. With long, slender fingers, he spun a basketball, then sent it in a high arc toward the basket. Nothing but net. Daniels tried a second shot. Nothing but net. A third. Nothing but net. At the end of a Spurs' practice session, the gym was nothing more than shooting gallery and no one was shooting any straighter than Daniels. Off the court, too, Daniels is trying to be a straight shooter.

Late on the afternoon of Feb. 9, officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department set up an undercover sting operation at a house suspected of being a distribution center for PCP--angel dust--and "rock" or "crack"--cocaine. By early evening, the officers already had made more than a dozen arrests. And the biggest bust was yet to come. At 7:40 p.m.

Even with a bullet in his right shoulder and the weight of a tortured past on his back, Lloyd Daniels still has the ethereal touch that has always earned him yet one more chance. He has just made a dozen straight 3-pointers when he retreats to the carpet in front of the Sacramento Kings' bench, about 6 feet farther from the basket. The arena is empty, except for Daniels and a couple of onlookers. Daniels vows he won't leave until he's made five in a row from that distance.

Even with a bullet in his right shoulder and the weight of a tortured past on his back, Lloyd Daniels still has the ethereal touch that has always earned him yet one more chance. He has just made a dozen straight 3-pointers when he retreats to the carpet in front of the Sacramento Kings' bench, about 6 feet farther from the basket. The arena is empty, except for Daniels and a couple of onlookers. Daniels vows he won't leave until he's made five in a row from that distance.

The Sacramento Kings signed Lloyd Daniels, 29, who last played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers two years ago. He averaged 6.9 points, 2.1 assists and 1.3 assists in 30 games that season. * The Miami Heat hired former Laker Coach Randy Pfund as general manager and announced the resignation of Dave Wohl, executive vice president of basketball operations.

The lesson the Indiana Pacers should have learned from that weekend side trip to Las Vegas during their two days off between Phoenix and Los Angeles was reinforced Monday night: You can't beat the house. Lloyd Daniels, a small forward, beat long odds by snaking his way into the trenches to grab the offensive rebound that became a three-point play with 12.9 seconds left, giving the Lakers a 93-91 victory before 12,764 at the Forum.

At the Forum (the other) night, midway through the second quarter, the public-address announcer said: "Randolph Keys replacing Lloyd Daniels." Not only didn't I know which team was substituting, I wasn't even sure which league I was watching. P.J. GENDELL Beverly Hills

They came out of nowhere Friday night. The Lakers and a trio of unlikely heroes. Lloyd Daniels, Randolph Keys and Anthony (Pig) Miller provided the rescue service at the Forum, leading the Lakers back from a 15-point deficit and helping them avoid the first four-game losing streak of the season with a 109-104 double-overtime victory over the Sacramento Kings before 12,040. Daniels and Keys, here only because of the rash of injuries, both had big baskets.

The Lakers, looking for bench strength and scoring potential in the wake of serious injuries to Cedric Ceballos and Eddie Jones, are expected to announce today the signing of Lloyd Daniels to a 10-day contract. The arrival of Daniels, who had been playing with the Fort Wayne Fury of the Continental Basketball Assn., has been a possibility since early February, when Ceballos ruptured a hand ligament.

Lloyd Daniels will continue his recovery from substance abuse, as well as his basketball career, with the Greensboro (N.C.) City Gaters of the Global Basketball Assn.

What was not among the NCAA's sanctions of Nevada Las Vegas was perhaps more important to Rollie Massimino than what was. Missing from the list meted out to the Rebel basketball program Tuesday was one prohibiting participation in the NCAA tournament. Somehow, that made everything else all right. "No one likes to get penalized, but we certainly accepted it," said Massimino at the Big West Conference basketball media day Wednesday at a West Los Angeles hotel.

The NCAA resolved the oldest of its current infractions cases Tuesday when it placed the Nevada Las Vegas basketball program on three years probation for major rules violations, many stemming from the recruitment of former New York high school star Lloyd Daniels seven years ago. Sanctions imposed by the NCAA Committee on Infractions will limit television appearances by UNLV over two seasons, but won't keep the Rebels out of postseason play.