Cavaliers 98-86 Wizards (9 Apr, 2009) Box Score

Washington Wizards

18-61, 5-34 away

	1	2	3	4	T
WSH	13	24	21	28	86
CLE	26	22	30	20	98

Cleveland Cavaliers

63-15, 38-1 home

Washington Wizards

starters
Antawn JamisonA. Jamison
Dominic McGuireD. McGuire
Caron ButlerC. Butler
Brendan HaywoodB. Haywood
Javaris CrittentonJ. Crittenton
bench
Darius SongailaD. Songaila
Etan ThomasE. Thomas
Andray BlatcheA. Blatche
Oleksiy PecherovO. Pecherov
JaVale McGeeJ. McGee
Gilbert ArenasG. Arenas
Mike JamesM. James
DeShawn StevensonD. Stevenson
Juan DixonJ. Dixon
Nick YoungN. Young
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	2-4	0-0	3-6	1	5	6	1	1	0	3	2	-21	7
18	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	4	0	0	1	0	-15	2
31	2-9	0-1	6-7	0	3	3	2	1	0	4	1	-17	10
22	3-8	0-0	0-0	0	7	7	0	0	2	2	3	-24	6
30	4-10	1-1	2-3	3	1	4	2	1	0	1	4	-14	11
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
10	3-4	0-0	1-1	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	-2	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	6-9	0-0	2-4	2	4	6	1	1	1	1	0	+11	14
8	0-4	0-1	2-2	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	+4	2
14	1-2	0-0	4-4	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	3	+9	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	2-4	1-1	0-0	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	+2	5
34	7-16	2-5	0-0	0	2	2	2	0	1	0	4	+7	16
	31-73	4-9	20-27	10	29	39	14	6	6	14	19		86
	42.5%	44.4%	74.1%

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
Lorenzen WrightL. Wright
Darnell JacksonD. Jackson
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
Tarence KinseyT. Kinsey
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	7-15	0-2	7-8	0	6	6	7	3	0	2	1	+25	21
21	2-6	0-0	3-4	6	7	13	2	0	1	2	1	+23	7
25	5-7	0-0	0-0	4	3	7	0	2	0	0	2	+21	10
30	6-12	2-4	0-0	0	3	3	3	1	0	1	3	+13	14
35	5-14	0-2	3-3	0	2	2	4	0	0	2	1	+14	13
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
25	3-7	0-1	1-2	3	2	5	0	0	3	1	4	-7	7
18	3-4	0-0	1-2	3	3	6	2	0	0	0	3	-1	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-8	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	1-6	0-0	2-2	2	4	6	0	0	0	0	4	-9	4
5	2-5	1-2	0-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-6	5
27	4-8	2-4	0-0	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	0	-1	10
3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-4	0
	38-85	5-16	17-23	19	30	49	21	6	5	11	21		98
	44.7%	31.3%	73.9%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

Series tied 2-2

Wizards
89
Cavaliers
93

Game 1

26/12

Cavaliers
77
Wizards
80

Game 2

4/1

Cavaliers
101
Wizards
109

Game 3

3/4

Wizards
86
Cavaliers
98

Game 4

9/4

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

12:00 AM, 9 April 2009

Cleveland, OH

Attendance: 20,562

Referees:
Tom Washington
Eric Lewis
Haywoode Workman

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Orlando	18	12	.600	-	W1
Miami	13	13	.500	3	L3
Atlanta	14	15	.483	3.5	L3
Charlotte	7	21	.250	10	L4
Washington	4	22	.154	12	L1

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

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Regular Season Series

Series tied 2-2

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