Game Preview: Wizards vs. Sixers

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WIZARDS PROBABLE STARTERS
#3 Caron Butler
Forward, 6-7, 228 lbs
2009-10 STATS
PPG
RPG
APG
16.8
7.0
1.2
#4 Antawn Jamison
Forward, 6-9, 235 lbs
2009-10 STATS
PPG
RPG
APG
22.7
9.7
0.7
#33 Brendan Haywood
Center, 7-0, 263 lbs
2009-10 STATS
PPG
RPG
APG
10.7
11.0
0.3
#1 Nick Young
Guard, 6-6, 210 lbs
2009-10 STATS
PPG
RPG
APG
2.0
0.7
0.0
#0 Gilbert Arenas
Guard, 6-4, 215 lbs
2009-10 STATS
PPG
RPG
APG
22.5
4.0
6.3
GAME NOTES
  • Tonight’s game is the first of three meetings between the Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. The two teams will meet again on December 22nd at Verizon Center and for a final time in Philadelphia on January 5th. The 76ers took all four matchups versus the Wizards last season.
  • Last contest...The Wizards were topped by the San Antonio Spurs, 106-84, on November 21st in San Antonio...The Spurs held the Wizards to a season-low 33.3 percent from the field en route to the victory...Gilbert Arenas scored 18 points and grabbed six rebounds...Antawn Jamison scored 15 points and had seven rebounds...Randy Foye added 10 points off of the bench.
  • Antawn Jamison averaged 20.3 points and 9.8 rebounds against Philadelphia last season. Jamison pulled down a season-high tying 15 rebounds against the 76ers on January 30th. Jamison posted two of his 38 double-double against Philadelphia last season.
  • Caron Butler averaged 18.0 points and 5.5 rebounds versus the 76ers last season.
  • Wizards center Brendan Haywood is averaging 12.3 rebounds per game in his last seven games. Haywood is also averaging 5.6 offensive rebounds per game during this stretch, and is currently tied for first with Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph in the NBA in offensive rebounds per game with an average of 4.4.
  • Gilbert Arenas is averaging 23.8 points and 5.3 assists in 17 career games versus Philadelphia.
  • The Wizards have played the fifth toughest schedule in the NBA so far this season. Wizards’ opponents currently hold a 77-59 (.570) record.
  • Washington-Philadelphia connections...Sixers Head Coach Eddie Jordan, a native of Washington, DC, was the Head Coach of the Washington Wizards from the 2003-04 season through the beginning of the 2008-09 season accumulating an overall record of 197-224…Eddie Jordan’s 197 victories ranks third all-time in franchise history…Sixers Associate Head Coach Mike O’Koren was an assistant coach for six seasons (2003-09) with the Wizards under Eddie Jordan…O’Koren briefly played for the Washington Bullets in the 1986-87 season…Sixers assistant coach Randy Ayers spent two seasons (2007-09) as an assistant coach with the Wizards…Sixers assistant coach Jim Lynam was Washington’s Head Coach in 1994-95, 1995-96 and part of the 1996-97 NBA season… Andray Blatche scored a then career-high 26 points vs. Philadelphia on November 20, 2007.
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    SIXERS PROBABLE STARTERS
    #21 Thaddeus Young
    Forward, 6-8, 220 lbs.
    2009-10 STATS
    PPG
    RPG
    APG
    12.8
    4.2
    2.4
    #42 Elton Brand
    Forward, 6-9, 254
    2009-10 STATS
    PPG
    RPG
    APG
    11.6
    5.8
    0.9
    #1 Samuel Dalembert
    Center, 6-11, 250 lbs
    2009-10 STATS
    PPG
    RPG
    APG
    5.5
    6.3
    0.8
    #9 Andre Iguodala
    Guard, 6-6, 207 lbs
    2009-10 STATS
    PPG
    RPG
    APG
    18.7
    6.3
    5.6
    #23 Louis Williams
    Guard, 6-2, 175 lbs
    2009-10 STATS
    PPG
    RPG
    APG
    16.3
    3.8
    5.1