Los Angeles Lakers Opening Day Rosters

2004-2005 Los Angeles Lakers Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Chucky Atkins PG 5-11 185 Aug 14, 1974 30 South Florida 6 1996 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Tierre Brown PG 6-2 189 Jun 3, 1979 25 McNeese State 3 2001 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Kobe Bryant SG 6-6 212 Aug 23, 1978 26 Lower Merion High School (Pennsylvania) 8 1996 1st Rnd, #13, Charlotte Hornets (1988)
Caron Butler SF 6-7 228 Mar 13, 1980 24 UConn 2 2002 1st Rnd, #10, Miami Heat
Brian Cook PF/SF 6-9 234 Dec 4, 1980 23 Illinois 1 2003 1st Rnd, #24, Los Angeles Lakers
Vlade Divac C 7-1 260 Feb 3, 1968 36 KK Partizan (Serbia) 15 1989 1st Rnd, #26, Los Angeles Lakers
Devean George SF/SG 6-8 235 Aug 29, 1977 27 Augsburg College 5 1999 1st Rnd, #23, Los Angeles Lakers
Brian Grant F-C 6-9 254 Mar 5, 1972 32 Xavier 10 1994 1st Rnd, #8, Sacramento Kings
Jumaine Jones PF 6-8 218 Feb 10, 1979 25 Georgia 5 1999 1st Rnd, #27, Atlanta Hawks
Slava Medvedenko PF 6-10 250 Apr 4, 1979 25 BC Kyiv (Ukraine) 4 1998 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Chris Mihm C 7-0 265 Jul 16, 1979 25 Texas 4 2000 1st Rnd, #7, Chicago Bulls
Lamar Odom SF/PF 6-10 230 Nov 6, 1979 24 Rhode Island 5 1999 1st Rnd, #4, Los Angeles Clippers
Kareem Rush SG 6-6 201 Oct 30, 1980 24 Missouri 2 2002 1st Rnd, #20, Toronto Raptors
Sasha Vujacic SG 6-7 195 Mar 8, 1984 20 Pallalcesto Amatori Udine (Italy) 0 2004 1st Rnd, #27, Los Angeles Lakers
Luke Walton PF/SF 6-8 235 Mar 28, 1980 24 Arizona 1 2003 2nd Rnd, #32, Los Angeles Lakers

Denver 78, L.A. Lakers 89

November 2, 2004

Regular Season

crypto.com Arena (Los Angeles, California)

Attendance: 18,997

Officials: Marc Davis, Joe Crawford, David Jones

Team Rebounds: Denver (10) Los Angeles (5)

Technicals: Denver (0) Los Angeles (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (0-1) 14 17 26 21 78
LAL (1-0) 24 26 22 17 89

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 92 84.6 96.5
LAL 92 96.5 84.6

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .358 0.173 0.333 0.170
LAL .464 0.206 0.213 0.343

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
15 Carmelo Anthony Starter SF 39:00 9-22 0-1 2-3 9.1 4.0 1 5 4 4 2 0 2 20
23 Marcus Camby Starter C 36:00 4-8 0-0 0-2 18.8 2.0 14 16 1 2 1 6 2 8
1 Voshon Lenard Starter SG 24:00 4-9 2-6 3-5 4.6 0.0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 13
- Kenyon Martin Starter PF 33:00 4-8 0-0 5-6 19.2 3.0 4 7 5 5 4 2 0 13
24 Andre Miller Starter PG 34:00 4-13 0-0 2-2 5.0 2.0 2 4 3 0 0 0 1 10
11 Earl Boykins Bench PG 18:00 1-9 0-2 1-1 -1.1 0.0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3
7 Greg Buckner Bench SG 16:00 0-5 0-1 2-2 -1.5 3.0 0 3 1 4 0 0 1 2
56 Francisco Elson Bench C 08:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 2.5 0.0 5 5 0 1 1 0 1 0
31 Maybyner Nene Bench C 18:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 -0.5 2.0 4 6 0 3 1 0 4 2
3 DerMarr Johnson Bench SF 04:00 2-3 1-1 0-0 1.8 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
7 Rodney White Bench SF 10:00 1-6 0-1 0-0 -5.2 0.0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 2
  Team                   10         1  
        240 30-88 3-12 15-21 68.6 16 32 58 17 21 10 8 17 78
          34.1% 25.0% 71.4%                    

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
9 Chucky Atkins Starter PG 35:00 2-5 2-5 2-2 8.0 0.0 6 6 2 2 0 0 1 8
8 Kobe Bryant Starter SG 42:00 5-14 1-2 14-15 18.1 1.0 3 4 7 2 1 3 4 25
1 Caron Butler Starter SF 28:00 5-7 1-2 0-0 10.5 1.0 3 4 2 3 2 0 1 11
31 Chris Mihm Starter C 35:00 8-16 0-0 7-10 15.0 5.0 7 12 1 3 0 2 4 23
- Lamar Odom Starter PF 25:00 2-8 0-2 1-3 12.9 3.0 10 13 3 3 4 1 2 5
5 Tierre Brown Bench PG 13:00 1-4 0-0 0-0 0.8 0.0 1 1 4 2 0 0 2 2
7 Brian Cook Bench PF 26:00 5-10 0-2 0-0 8.5 0.0 2 2 3 1 0 2 0 10
55 Brian Grant Bench PF 10:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 0.5 0.0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 2
20 Jumaine Jones Bench SF 20:00 1-4 1-3 0-0 -0.2 0.0 3 3 1 3 1 0 3 3
21 Kareem Rush Bench SF 06:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -1.0 0.0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
  Team                   5            
        240 30-70 5-17 24-30 93.0 10 37 52 23 22 8 9 19 89
          42.9% 29.4% 80.0%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Andre Miller
10p, 4r, 3a
Voshon Lenard
13p, 1r, 1a
Carmelo Anthony
20p, 5r, 4a
Kenyon Martin
13p, 7r, 5a
Marcus Camby
8p, 16r, 1a
Rotation Earl Boykins
3p, 0r, 2a
Greg Buckner
2p, 3r, 1a
Rodney White
2p, 1r, 0a
 
 
Maybyner Nene
2p, 6r, 0a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
DerMarr Johnson
5p, 0r, 0a
 
 
Francisco Elson
0p, 5r, 0a

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chucky Atkins
8p, 6r, 2a
Kobe Bryant
25p, 4r, 7a
Caron Butler
11p, 4r, 2a
Lamar Odom
5p, 13r, 3a
Chris Mihm
23p, 12r, 1a
Rotation Tierre Brown
2p, 1r, 4a
 
 
Jumaine Jones
3p, 3r, 1a
Brian Cook
10p, 2r, 3a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Brian Grant
2p, 1r, 0a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
Kareem Rush
0p, 1r, 0a