Houston Rockets @ Washington Wizards

50-23, 23-13 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	28	31	17	23	99
Wizards WSH	20	26	21	24	91

Washington WizardsWizardsWSH

41-33, 26-12 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
Josh SmithJ. Smith#5
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza#1
Dwight HowardD. Howard#12
Jason TerryJ. Terry#31
James HardenJ. Harden#13
bench
Joey DorseyJ. Dorsey#8
Corey BrewerC. Brewer#33
Pablo PrigioniP. Prigioni#9
Nick JohnsonN. Johnson#3
Terrence JonesT. Jones#6
KJ McDanielsK. McDaniels#32
Clint CapelaC. Capela#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	14	6-13	2-4	0-0	10	3	4	1	2	4	6	2	+4
38	13	3-9	2-8	5-5	8	2	4	2	0	1	7	1	-2
19	11	3-6	0-0	5-8	10	0	2	0	0	3	7	4	-3
19	5	2-4	1-3	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	+3
38	24	7-20	1-6	9-10	3	6	3	2	1	0	3	3	+1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	7	3-4	0-0	1-4	8	0	0	3	0	1	7	4	+9
22	15	7-14	1-2	0-0	5	2	3	1	2	4	1	3	+14
29	10	3-7	2-5	2-2	6	3	1	3	0	2	4	4	+9
16	0	0-3	0-1	0-4	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	2	+5
DNP-COLLAPSED LUNG
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	99	34-80	9-29	22-33	53	18	19	12	6	16	37	25
		43%	31%	67%

Washington Wizards

starters
Paul PierceP. Pierce#34
Nene N. Hilario#42
Marcin GortatM. Gortat#4
John WallJ. Wall#2
Bradley BealB. Beal#3
bench
Drew GoodenD. Gooden#90
Rasual ButlerR. Butler#8
Martell WebsterM. Webster#9
Otto Porter Jr.O. Porter Jr.#22
Kevin SeraphinK. Seraphin#13
Ramon SessionsR. Sessions#7
DeJuan BlairD. Blair#45
Will BynumW. Bynum#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
22	2	1-6	0-3	0-0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	2	-10
34	10	4-8	0-0	2-5	7	1	2	3	0	0	7	1	-10
29	6	3-10	0-0	0-0	10	0	0	1	2	4	6	5	-4
43	25	7-17	0-1	11-12	8	12	7	4	1	2	6	4	-3
38	15	4-11	1-4	6-7	4	0	3	1	1	0	4	3	-3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
18	4	2-4	0-1	0-0	5	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	-6
14	2	0-3	0-2	2-2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	-3
8	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	-6
18	15	4-7	2-2	5-7	6	0	1	1	0	3	3	1	+6
8	3	1-4	0-0	1-2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	+2
9	6	2-3	0-1	2-2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	-3
DNP-PERSONAL REASONS
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	91	29-75	4-15	29-37	43	17	17	14	5	11	32	22
		39%	27%	78%

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

Matchups

HOU

Season tied

1-1

WSH

103

Game 1@ HOU

Final

104

Game 2@ WSH

Final

Game Information

Washington, DC

ABC

Referee:James Williams

Referee:Sean Wright

Referee:Joe Crawford

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	62	20	.756	-	L1
Houston	52	30	.634	10	W1
New Orleans	26	56	.317	36	L2
Dallas	26	56	.317	36	W1
Memphis	25	57	.305	37	L8

Eastern Conference

Southeast	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Atlanta	46	36	.561	-	L1
Orlando	45	37	.549	1	L1
Charlotte	44	38	.537	2	W1
Miami	43	39	.524	3	W2
Washington	17	65	.207	29	L10

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