Los Angeles Lakers Opening Day Rosters

2003-2004 Los Angeles Lakers Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Kobe Bryant SG 6-6 212 Aug 23, 1978 25 Lower Merion High School (Pennsylvania) 7 1996 1st Rnd, #13, Charlotte Hornets (1988)
Brian Cook PF/SF 6-9 234 Dec 4, 1980 22 Illinois 0 2003 1st Rnd, #24, Los Angeles Lakers
Derek Fisher PG 6-1 210 Aug 9, 1974 29 Little Rock 7 1996 1st Rnd, #24, Los Angeles Lakers
Rick Fox SF 6-7 230 Jul 24, 1969 34 North Carolina 12 1991 1st Rnd, #24, Boston Celtics
Devean George SF/SG 6-8 235 Aug 29, 1977 26 Augsburg College 4 1999 1st Rnd, #23, Los Angeles Lakers
Horace Grant F-C 6-10 255 Jul 4, 1965 38 Clemson 16 1987 1st Rnd, #10, Chicago Bulls
Karl Malone PF 6-9 265 Jul 24, 1963 40 Louisiana Tech 18 1985 1st Rnd, #13, Utah Jazz
Slava Medvedenko PF 6-10 250 Apr 4, 1979 24 BC Kyiv (Ukraine) 3 1998 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Shaquille O'Neal C 7-1 325 Mar 6, 1972 31 LSU 11 1992 1st Rnd, #1, Orlando Magic
Jannero Pargo PG 6-1 185 Oct 22, 1979 24 Arkansas 1 2002 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Gary Payton SG 6-4 180 Jul 23, 1968 35 Oregon State 13 1990 1st Rnd, #2, Seattle SuperSonics
Kareem Rush SG 6-6 201 Oct 30, 1980 22 Missouri 1 2002 1st Rnd, #20, Toronto Raptors
Bryon Russell G-F 6-7 225 Dec 31, 1970 32 Long Beach State 10 1993 2nd Rnd, #45, Utah Jazz
Jamal Sampson C-F 6-11 235 May 15, 1983 20 California 1 2002 2nd Rnd, #46, Utah Jazz
Luke Walton PF/SF 6-8 235 Mar 28, 1980 23 Arizona 0 2003 2nd Rnd, #32, Los Angeles Lakers

Dallas 93, L.A. Lakers 109

October 28, 2003

Regular Season

crypto.com Arena (Los Angeles, California)

Attendance: 18,997

Officials: Joe Crawford, Mark Wunderlich, Phil Robinson

Team Rebounds: Dallas (0) Los Angeles (0)

Technicals: Dallas (0) Los Angeles (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DAL (0-1) 15 30 22 26 93
LAL (1-0) 29 26 31 23 109

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DAL 97 95.5 112.0
LAL 97 112.0 95.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DAL .418 0.113 0.239 0.259
LAL .545 0.103 0.152 0.135

Dallas Mavericks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
4 Michael Finley Starter SG 30:00 2-8 0-4 8-8 5.5 0.0 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 12
21 Danny Fortson Starter C 14:00 0-0 0-0 0-2 1.0 0.0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 Steve Nash Starter PG 28:00 4-10 0-4 0-0 1.5 0.0 0 0 7 4 0 0 4 8
41 Dirk Nowitzki Starter PF 33:00 5-17 0-6 9-12 11.2 3.0 10 13 1 2 1 1 3 19
8 Antoine Walker Starter SF 33:00 7-13 5-6 0-0 12.5 2.0 5 7 1 3 0 0 2 19
3 Travis Best Bench PG 16:00 0-5 0-1 0-0 0.2 0.0 0 0 4 2 2 0 1 0
44 Shawn Bradley Bench C 04:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 3.0 1.0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4
6 Marquis Daniels Bench SG 04:00 0-0 0-0 1-2 0.2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Tony Delk Bench PG 27:00 2-9 1-3 2-2 3.8 1.0 5 6 1 3 0 0 0 7
5 Josh Howard Bench SF 05:00 2-5 0-0 0-0 3.5 0.0 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 4
33 Antawn Jamison Bench PF 33:00 7-13 1-1 2-4 11.0 3.0 3 6 1 2 0 0 0 17
14 Eduardo Najera Bench PF 13:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 2.2 1.0 2 3 0 2 1 0 0 2
  Team                                
        240 32-85 7-25 22-30 75.8 11 35 46 17 21 4 1 11 93
          37.6% 28.0% 73.3%                    

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
2 Derek Fisher Starter PG 37:00 6-14 1-5 3-5 7.9 0.0 3 3 3 2 1 0 1 16
3 Devean George Starter SF 35:00 7-9 2-3 0-1 19.1 0.0 7 7 3 2 1 2 0 16
11 Karl Malone Starter PF 29:00 5-11 0-0 5-5 21.1 3.0 7 10 9 4 1 1 1 15
34 Shaquille O'Neal Starter C 32:00 8-15 0-0 0-4 11.5 2.0 7 9 5 4 0 1 3 16
20 Gary Payton Starter SG 36:00 10-20 1-4 0-0 21.0 1.0 6 7 9 3 2 1 1 21
54 Horace Grant Bench PF 20:00 1-2 0-0 1-2 6.5 0.0 5 5 2 2 0 1 0 3
12 Jannero Pargo Bench PG 09:00 2-3 1-1 0-0 2.2 0.0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 5
21 Kareem Rush Bench SG 14:00 1-5 0-1 0-0 -3.0 0.0 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 2
9 Bryon Russell Bench SF 21:00 3-7 1-5 3-3 2.6 0.0 0 0 0 4 2 0 1 10
4 Luke Walton Bench SF 07:00 2-3 1-1 0-0 3.0 1.0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 5
  Team                             1  
        240 45-89 7-20 12-20 100.0 7 39 46 32 28 7 6 11 109
          50.6% 35.0% 60.0%                    

Dallas Mavericks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Steve Nash
8p, 0r, 7a
Michael Finley
12p, 4r, 1a
Antoine Walker
19p, 7r, 1a
Dirk Nowitzki
19p, 13r, 1a
Danny Fortson
0p, 3r, 0a
Rotation Tony Delk
7p, 6r, 1a
 
 
 
 
Antawn Jamison
17p, 6r, 1a
 
 
Rotation Travis Best
0p, 0r, 4a
 
 
 
 
Eduardo Najera
2p, 3r, 0a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Marquis Daniels
1p, 0r, 0a
Josh Howard
4p, 3r, 1a
 
 
Shawn Bradley
4p, 1r, 0a

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Derek Fisher
16p, 3r, 3a
Gary Payton
21p, 7r, 9a
Devean George
16p, 7r, 3a
Karl Malone
15p, 10r, 9a
Shaquille O'Neal
16p, 9r, 5a
Rotation  
 
Kareem Rush
2p, 1r, 1a
Bryon Russell
10p, 0r, 0a
Horace Grant
3p, 5r, 2a
 
 
Lim PT Jannero Pargo
5p, 2r, 0a
 
 
Luke Walton
5p, 2r, 0a