Portland Trail Blazers Opening Day Rosters

1996-1997 Portland Trail Blazers Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Kenny Anderson PG 6-0 168 Oct 9, 1970 26 Georgia Tech 5 1991 1st Rnd, #2, New Jersey Nets
Marcus Brown PG 6-3 185 Apr 3, 1974 22 Murray State 0 1996 2nd Rnd, #46, Portland Trail Blazers
Mitchell Butler SG 6-5 210 Dec 15, 1970 25 UCLA 3 1993 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Randolph Childress SG 6-2 188 Sep 21, 1972 24 Wake Forest 1 1995 1st Rnd, #19, Detroit Pistons
Sasa Djordjevic SG 6-2 198 Aug 26, 1967 29 KK Partizan (Serbia) 1 1989 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Chris Dudley C 6-11 235 Feb 22, 1965 31 Yale 9 1987 4th Rnd, #75, Cleveland Cavaliers
Reggie Jordan SG 6-4 195 Jan 26, 1969 27 New Mexico State 2 1993 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Aaron McKie SG 6-5 209 Oct 2, 1972 24 Temple 2 1994 1st Rnd, #17, Portland Trail Blazers
Jermaine O'Neal C/PF 6-11 235 Oct 13, 1978 18 Eau Claire High School (South Carolina) 0 1996 1st Rnd, #17, Portland Trail Blazers
J.R. Rider SG 6-5 215 Mar 12, 1971 25 UNLV 3 1993 1st Rnd, #5, Minnesota Timberwolves
Cliff Robinson F-C 6-10 225 Dec 16, 1966 29 UConn 7 1989 2nd Rnd, #36, Portland Trail Blazers
Arvydas Sabonis C 7-3 279 Dec 19, 1964 31 Zalgiris (Lithuania) 1 1985 4th Rnd, #77, Atlanta Hawks
Gary Trent PF 6-8 250 Sep 22, 1974 22 Ohio 1 1995 1st Rnd, #11, Milwaukee Bucks
Rasheed Wallace PF/C 6-11 230 Sep 17, 1974 22 North Carolina 1 1995 1st Rnd, #4, Washington Wizards
Dontonio Wingfield PF 6-8 256 Jun 23, 1974 22 Cincinnati 2 1994 2nd Rnd, #37, Seattle SuperSonics

Portland 114, Vancouver 85

November 1, 1996

Regular Season

Rogers Arena (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Attendance: 19,193

Officials: Tony Brothers, Steve Javie, Terry Durham

Team Rebounds: Portland (11) Vancouver (9)

Technicals: Portland (0) Vancouver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
POR (1-0) 29 27 30 28 114
VAN (0-1) 26 27 16 16 85

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
POR 91 125.8 93.8
VAN 91 93.8 125.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
POR .564 0.210 0.407 0.198
VAN .474 0.166 0.333 0.156

Portland Trail Blazers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
7 Kenny Anderson Starter PG 29:00 8-13 3-5 1-2 21.5 3.0 4 7 8 2 3 0 4 20
23 Aaron McKie Starter SG 24:00 2-5 0-0 4-5 11.1 0.0 1 1 4 0 3 1 0 8
3 Cliff Robinson Starter SF 29:00 8-15 2-5 4-6 9.0 0.0 2 2 1 2 0 1 2 22
11 Arvydas Sabonis Starter C 23:00 3-5 0-1 3-7 8.4 3.0 7 10 2 3 1 3 7 9
30 Rasheed Wallace Starter PF 26:00 5-7 0-0 0-2 8.5 2.0 2 4 1 2 0 2 1 10
6 Mitchell Butler Bench SG 24:00 4-9 2-4 0-0 11.0 0.0 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 10
12 Randolph Childress Bench SG 04:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 2.2 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
31 Reggie Jordan Bench SG 15:00 3-6 0-0 0-0 5.2 2.0 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 6
33 Gary Trent Bench PF 22:00 6-7 0-0 3-3 14.6 3.0 4 7 1 0 0 0 1 15
10 Dontonio Wingfield Bench PF 19:00 2-9 0-2 0-0 7.2 5.0 4 9 4 6 3 0 2 4
20 Chris Dudley Bench C 25:00 4-10 0-0 0-0 6.5 4.0 6 10 0 3 0 0 1 8
  Team                   11            
        240 45-86 7-17 17-27 129.4 22 32 65 30 20 12 7 19 114
          52.3% 41.2% 63.0%                    

Vancouver Grizzlies

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
3 Shareef Abdur-Rahim Starter SF 35:00 6-14 0-1 4-6 11.0 2.0 3 5 2 1 3 1 2 16
2 Greg Anthony Starter PG 24:00 2-3 1-1 1-2 5.0 0.0 2 2 3 1 1 0 3 6
52 Eric Mobley Starter PF 20:00 4-5 0-0 3-4 7.2 2.0 0 2 3 3 0 0 2 11
7 Anthony Peeler Starter SG 25:00 2-6 0-1 0-0 2.2 0.0 1 1 4 2 0 0 1 4
50 Bryant Reeves Starter C 26:00 4-15 0-0 0-0 0.5 1.0 3 4 3 3 0 0 1 8
33 Pete Chilcutt Bench PF 25:00 3-6 1-2 1-2 6.5 2.0 3 5 0 5 0 2 0 8
- Blue Edwards Bench SG 28:00 7-13 2-5 0-1 6.6 0.0 3 3 3 3 0 0 3 16
34 George Lynch Bench SF 08:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 1.5 0.0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0
15 Rich Manning Bench C 05:00 2-2 0-0 0-0 2.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
11 Lee Mayberry Bench PG 24:00 4-6 1-3 3-4 12.2 0.0 1 1 4 1 2 0 0 12
21 Lawrence Moten Bench SG 07:00 0-4 0-0 0-0 -4.5 0.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0
40 Roy Rogers, Jr. Bench PF 13:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 2.0 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
  Team                   9         1  
        240 34-77 5-14 12-19 72.1 9 18 36 23 21 7 5 16 85
          44.2% 35.7% 63.2%                    

Portland Trail Blazers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Kenny Anderson
20p, 7r, 8a
Aaron McKie
8p, 1r, 4a
Cliff Robinson
22p, 2r, 1a
Rasheed Wallace
10p, 4r, 1a
Arvydas Sabonis
9p, 10r, 2a
Rotation  
 
Mitchell Butler
10p, 1r, 6a
 
 
Gary Trent
15p, 7r, 1a
Chris Dudley
8p, 10r, 0a
Rotation  
 
Reggie Jordan
6p, 3r, 2a
 
 
Dontonio Wingfield
4p, 9r, 4a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Randolph Childress
2p, 0r, 1a
 
 
 
 
 
 

Vancouver Grizzlies Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Greg Anthony
6p, 2r, 3a
Anthony Peeler
4p, 1r, 4a
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
16p, 5r, 2a
Eric Mobley
11p, 2r, 3a
Bryant Reeves
8p, 4r, 3a
Rotation Lee Mayberry
12p, 1r, 4a
Blue Edwards
16p, 3r, 3a
 
 
Pete Chilcutt
8p, 5r, 0a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
 
 
Roy Rogers, Jr.
0p, 3r, 0a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
Lawrence Moten
0p, 0r, 0a
George Lynch
0p, 1r, 1a
 
 
Rich Manning
4p, 0r, 0a