WIZARDS
PROBABLE STARTERS |
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#3 Caron Butler
Guard, 6-7, 228 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
13.4 |
3.9 |
1.9 |
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#4 Fabricio Oberto
Forward, 6-10, 245 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
2.0 |
2.5 |
1.3 |
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#3 Brendan Haywood
Center, 7-0, 263 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
7.0 |
7.8 |
0.0 |
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#2 Mike Miller
Guard, 6-8, 218 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
8.0 |
5.3 |
2.3 |
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| #0 Gilbert Arenas
Guard, 6-4, 215 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
14.7 |
6.5 |
1.3 |
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GAME
NOTES
Tonight’s game marks the first of two meetings between the Washington Wizards and Dallas
Wizards head coach Flip Saunders holds a 10-2 (.833) career record on opening night.
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is the only active head coach with a better
record (11-1, .917) than Saunders on opening night.
Washington is 20-28 all time on opening night.
Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas will make his first opening night start since the 2007-08 season.
In that game, Arenas scored a game-high 34 points and grabbed eight rebounds
against the Indiana Pacers.
In the Wizards last victory (110-98) over the Mavericks in Dallas, which occurred on November
27, 2008, forward Caron Butler scored 35 points on 13-of-17 from the field, while
Antawn Jamison added 27 points and grabbed six rebounds.
Caron Butler is averaging 23.5 points and 9.8 rebounds in his last four games in Dallas.
In preseason action...The Wizards finished the 2009 preseason with a 4-4 record...Antawn
Jamison led the team in scoring with 15.4 points per game in five games played...Brendan
Haywood led the Wizards with 7.8 rebounds per game...Gilbert Arenas averaged 14.7
points per game and led the team with 6.5 assists per game...Second year center JaVale
McGee led the team in field goal percentage for the second consecutive preseason (.578).
Washington-Dallas connections…Wizards forward Antawn Jamison played one season in
Dallas in 2003-04; a season which culminated in NBA Sixth Man of the Year honors for
Jamison...Jamison was traded to Washington for Jerry Stackhouse, Christian Laettner,
and the draft rights to Devin Harris...Jamison and Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas were formerly
teammates with Dallas center Erick Dampier in Golden State…Wizards assistant
coach Sam Cassell and Mavericks swingmen Tim Thomas and Quinton Ross were teammates
with the Los Angeles Clippers…Sam Cassell played in 16 games for the Mavericks
during the 1996-97 season. |
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MAVERICKS PROBABLE STARTERS |
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#0 Shawn Marion
Forward, 6-7, 228 lbs.
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
18.3 |
4.7 |
1.0 |
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#41 Dirk Nowitzki
Forward, 7-0, 245
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
21.5 |
5.3 |
1.7 |
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#25 Erick Dampier
Center, 6-11, 265 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
4.8
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4.0 |
0.5 |
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#6 Quinton Ross
Guard, 6-6, 193 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
4.9 |
3.0 |
1.3 |
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#2 Jason Kidd
Guard, 6-4, 210 lbs
2009-10
STATS |
PPG |
RPG |
APG |
8.0 |
6.0 |
7.3 |
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