Minnesota Timberwolves Opening Day Rosters

2002-2003 Minnesota Timberwolves Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Terrell Brandon PG 5-11 180 May 20, 1970 32 Oregon 11 1991 1st Rnd, #11, Cleveland Cavaliers
Kevin Garnett C/PF 6-11 240 May 19, 1976 26 Farragut Career Academy (Illinois) 7 1995 1st Rnd, #5, Minnesota Timberwolves
Kendall Gill SG 6-5 195 May 25, 1968 34 Illinois 12 1990 1st Rnd, #5, Charlotte Hornets (1988)
Troy Hudson PG 6-1 170 Mar 13, 1976 26 Southern Illinois 5 1997 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Marc Jackson C 6-10 270 Jan 16, 1975 27 Temple 2 1997 2nd Rnd, #37, Golden State Warriors
Felipe Lopez G-F 6-5 199 Dec 19, 1974 27 St. John's 4 1998 1st Rnd, #24, San Antonio Spurs
Rasho Nesterovic C 7-0 255 May 30, 1976 26 Virtus Bologna (Italy) 4 1998 1st Rnd, #17, Minnesota Timberwolves
Anthony Peeler SG 6-4 208 Nov 25, 1969 32 Missouri 10 1992 1st Rnd, #15, Los Angeles Lakers
Igor Rakocevic PG 6-3 183 Mar 29, 1978 24 KK Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) 0 2000 2nd Rnd, #51, Minnesota Timberwolves
Reggie Slater SF 6-7 215 Aug 27, 1970 32 Wyoming 7 1992 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Joe Smith PF 6-10 225 Jul 26, 1975 27 Maryland 7 1995 1st Rnd, #1, Golden State Warriors
Rod Strickland PG 6-3 175 Jul 11, 1966 36 DePaul 14 1988 1st Rnd, #19, New York Knicks
Wally Szczerbiak SF 6-7 240 Mar 5, 1977 25 Miami (OH) 3 1999 1st Rnd, #6, Minnesota Timberwolves
Gary Trent PF 6-8 250 Sep 22, 1974 28 Ohio 7 1995 1st Rnd, #11, Milwaukee Bucks
Loren Woods C 7-1 245 Jun 21, 1978 24 Arizona 1 2001 2nd Rnd, #45, Minnesota Timberwolves

Denver 77, Minnesota 83

October 30, 2002

Regular Season

Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Attendance: N/A

Officials: Dan Crawford, Kevin Fehr, Scott Foster

Team Rebounds: Denver (7) Minnesota (16)

Technicals: Denver (0) Minnesota (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (0-1) 16 23 24 14 77
MIN (1-0) 24 30 16 13 83

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 94 82.3 88.7
MIN 94 88.7 82.3

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .429 0.224 0.271 0.128
MIN .439 0.160 0.162 0.134

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
30 Mark Blount Starter C 19:00 2-5 0-0 2-2 0.0 1.0 2 3 0 4 0 0 2 6
32 Ryan Bowen Starter PF 18:00 1-3 0-1 0-0 2.5 2.0 1 3 2 0 0 0 2 2
1 Donnell Harvey Starter SF 26:00 2-10 0-0 0-0 -2.2 1.0 3 4 0 2 0 0 1 4
41 James Posey Starter SG 34:00 7-14 0-3 1-2 17.8 2.0 12 14 3 0 3 0 3 15
12 Chris Whitney Starter PG 30:00 4-15 2-7 1-5 -3.9 0.0 1 1 3 3 0 0 4 11
15 Chris Andersen Bench C 23:00 7-9 0-0 2-2 13.8 1.0 7 8 0 2 2 1 3 16
6 Junior Harrington Bench PG 15:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -0.2 1.0 1 2 2 3 0 0 1 0
31 Maybyner Nene Bench C 28:00 3-6 0-1 4-6 12.0 4.0 7 11 4 3 0 1 4 10
11 Kenny Satterfield Bench PG 18:00 2-7 0-2 0-0 -0.2 0.0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 4
22 Nikoloz Tskitishvili Bench SF 29:00 3-7 3-4 0-0 8.0 1.0 1 2 3 5 0 2 0 9
  Team                   7         2  
        240 31-78 5-19 10-17 81.4 13 35 55 19 22 5 4 23 77
          39.7% 26.3% 58.8%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
21 Kevin Garnett Starter SF 41:00 6-12 0-2 1-2 18.2 0.0 12 12 7 2 1 3 4 13
16 Troy Hudson Starter PG 39:00 10-21 0-3 3-4 8.2 0.0 0 0 4 3 2 0 2 23
8 Rasho Nesterovic Starter C 37:00 4-12 0-1 2-4 7.5 4.0 6 10 1 3 1 0 1 10
44 Anthony Peeler Starter SG 30:00 5-11 4-4 0-0 8.2 1.0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 14
3 Loren Woods Starter C 28:00 1-8 0-0 0-0 5.5 0.0 8 8 3 1 1 1 1 2
9 Kendall Gill Bench SG 18:00 3-6 0-0 2-2 4.2 0.0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 8
25 Marc Jackson Bench C 10:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 -1.0 0.0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 2
35 Reggie Slater Bench SF 04:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 -1.8 1.0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 2
1 Rod Strickland Bench PG 09:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
20 Gary Trent Bench PF 24:00 3-7 0-0 3-5 6.6 0.0 3 3 2 3 2 1 1 9
  Team                   16         1  
        240 34-82 4-10 11-17 75.9 6 31 53 22 19 9 5 16 83
          41.5% 40.0% 64.7%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Whitney
11p, 1r, 3a
James Posey
15p, 14r, 3a
Donnell Harvey
4p, 4r, 0a
Ryan Bowen
2p, 3r, 2a
Mark Blount
6p, 3r, 0a
Rotation Kenny Satterfield
4p, 0r, 2a
 
 
Nikoloz Tskitishvili
9p, 2r, 3a
 
 
Maybyner Nene
10p, 11r, 4a
Rotation Junior Harrington
0p, 2r, 2a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chris Andersen
16p, 8r, 0a

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Troy Hudson
23p, 0r, 4a
Anthony Peeler
14p, 1r, 2a
Kevin Garnett
13p, 12r, 7a
Rasho Nesterovic
10p, 10r, 1a
Loren Woods
2p, 8r, 3a
Rotation  
 
Kendall Gill
8p, 0r, 2a
 
 
Gary Trent
9p, 3r, 2a
Marc Jackson
2p, 1r, 0a
Lim PT Rod Strickland
0p, 1r, 1a
 
 
Reggie Slater
2p, 1r, 0a