SPREWELL SEQUEL: GRIEVANCE SET FOR TOMORROW IN PORTLAND

          Lawyers for the Warriors, the NBA and the NBPA "descend
     on Portland today for [Latrell] Sprewell's grievance against
     the league and team, which begins tomorrow," according to
     David Steele of the S.F. CHRONICLE.  The procedure will "eat
     up most of this week, then spill over into next week in New
     York," and a final decision from arbitrator John Feerick
     "may not come until late March."  The "front man" for the
     Warriors is General Counsel Robin Baggett, and Steele writes
     that "any talk" of a compromise or settlement "has
     evaporated completely" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 1/26). In San Jose,
     Jesse Barkin wrote that attorneys for both sides will
     present their cases "in a fashion similar to a civil trial." 
     Warriors players, coaches and staff, "including" GM Garry
     St. Jean, "are expected" to testify, and both sides have
     "peppered their witness lists" with psychologists,
     sociologists, and medical doctors (S.J. MERCURY NEWS, 1/24).