1996-97 Washington Bullets Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 44-38
Finishing 4th in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference
Postseason: 0-3 Lost conference first round
Conference First Round - Lost to Chicago Bulls 3-0
Coach: Jim Lynam (22-24)
Coach: Bob Staak (0-1)
Coach: Bernie Bickerstaff (22-13)
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Attendance: 700,646, Avg. 17,089 in 41 home dates

1996-97 Washington Bullets Roster
1996-97 Washington Bullets Results

The Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association ended the 1996-97 season with a record of 44 wins and 38 losses, finishing fourth in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-3.

The Bullets racked up 8,147 points and surrendered 8,014.

Jim Lynam, Bob Staak and Bernie Bickerstaff coached the team. The 1996-97 Washington Bullets lost in the conference first round.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Juwan Howard	F-C	82	82	3324	1313	638	2	0	389	294	202	450	652	311	93	23	246	259	1570
Chris Webber	F-C	72	72	2806	1167	604	151	60	313	177	238	505	743	331	122	137	230	258	1445
Rod Strickland	G	82	81	2997	1105	515	77	13	497	367	95	240	335	727	143	14	270	166	1410
Calbert Cheaney	F-G	79	79	2411	730	369	30	4	137	95	70	198	268	114	77	18	94	226	837
Tracy Murray	F	82	1	1814	678	288	300	106	161	135	84	169	253	78	69	19	86	150	817
Gheorghe Muresan	C	73	69	1849	541	327	0	0	199	123	141	340	481	29	43	96	117	230	777
Chris Whitney	G	82	1	1117	330	139	163	58	113	94	13	91	104	182	49	4	68	100	430
Jaren Jackson	G-F	75	0	1133	329	134	158	53	69	53	31	101	132	65	45	16	60	131	374
Harvey Grant	F	78	25	1604	314	129	89	28	39	30	63	193	256	68	46	48	30	167	316
Lorenzo Williams	F-C	19	0	264	31	20	0	0	7	5	28	41	69	4	6	8	18	49	45
Tim Legler	G	15	0	182	48	15	29	8	7	6	0	21	21	7	3	5	9	21	44
Ashraf Amaya	F	31	0	144	40	12	1	1	28	15	19	33	52	3	7	3	10	29	40
Ben Wallace	F	34	0	197	46	16	0	0	20	6	25	33	58	2	8	11	18	27	38
Matt Fish	C	5	0	7	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	5	0	0	0	2	2	2
Gaylon Nickerson	G	1	0	6	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
Totals		810	410	19855	6678	3208	1001	331	1979	1400	1010	2420	3430	1921	712	402	1259	1815	8147

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Juwan Howard	F-C	82	82	40.5	48.6	0.0	75.6	2.5	5.5	8.0	3.8	1.1	0.3	3.0	3.2	19.1
Chris Webber	F-C	72	72	39.0	51.8	39.7	56.5	3.3	7.0	10.3	4.6	1.7	1.9	3.2	3.6	20.1
Rod Strickland	G	82	81	36.5	46.6	16.9	73.8	1.2	2.9	4.1	8.9	1.7	0.2	3.3	2.0	17.2
Calbert Cheaney	F-G	79	79	30.5	50.5	13.3	69.3	0.9	2.5	3.4	1.4	1.0	0.2	1.2	2.9	10.6
Tracy Murray	F	82	1	22.1	42.5	35.3	83.9	1.0	2.1	3.1	1.0	0.8	0.2	1.0	1.8	10.0
Gheorghe Muresan	C	73	69	25.3	60.4		61.8	1.9	4.7	6.6	0.4	0.6	1.3	1.6	3.2	10.6
Chris Whitney	G	82	1	13.6	42.1	35.6	83.2	0.2	1.1	1.3	2.2	0.6	0.0	0.8	1.2	5.2
Jaren Jackson	G-F	75	0	15.1	40.7	33.5	76.8	0.4	1.3	1.8	0.9	0.6	0.2	0.8	1.7	5.0
Harvey Grant	F	78	25	20.6	41.1	31.5	76.9	0.8	2.5	3.3	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.4	2.1	4.1
Lorenzo Williams	F-C	19	0	13.9	64.5		71.4	1.5	2.2	3.6	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.9	2.6	2.4
Tim Legler	G	15	0	12.1	31.3	27.6	85.7	0.0	1.4	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.6	1.4	2.9
Ashraf Amaya	F	31	0	4.6	30.0	100.0	53.6	0.6	1.1	1.7	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.9	1.3
Ben Wallace	F	34	0	5.8	34.8		30.0	0.7	1.0	1.7	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.8	1.1
Matt Fish	C	5	0	1.4	33.3			0.2	0.8	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.4
Gaylon Nickerson	G	1	0	6.0	33.3	0.0		0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	2.0
Averages		810	410	24.5	48.0	33.1	70.7	1.2	3.0	4.2	2.4	0.9	0.5	1.6	2.2	10.1

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Rod Strickland	G	3	124	52	22	2	1	19	14	5	13	18	25	3	0	11	8	59
Juwan Howard	F-C	3	129	43	20	0	0	18	16	10	8	18	5	2	2	3	9	56
Tracy Murray	F	3	87	30	17	10	5	17	16	3	6	9	2	4	2	0	10	55
Chris Webber	F-C	3	106	30	19	11	5	8	4	7	17	24	10	2	7	16	18	47
Calbert Cheaney	F-G	3	120	41	18	2	0	12	9	6	5	11	4	3	2	5	10	45
Gheorghe Muresan	C	3	70	9	4	0	0	8	7	2	16	18	0	0	4	11	6	15
Chris Whitney	G	3	20	5	2	4	2	1	1	0	2	2	2	0	0	5	1	7
Tim Legler	G	3	19	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	1
Harvey Grant	F	3	29	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	2	0	5	0
Jaren Jackson	G-F	3	11	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	2	7	0
Lorenzo Williams	F-C	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Totals		32	720	215	102	31	13	87	68	34	73	107	51	14	19	53	77	285

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Rod Strickland	G	3	41.3	42.3	50.0	73.7	1.7	4.3	6.0	8.3	1.0	0.0	3.7	2.7	19.7
Juwan Howard	F-C	3	43.0	46.5		88.9	3.3	2.7	6.0	1.7	0.7	0.7	1.0	3.0	18.7
Tracy Murray	F	3	29.0	56.7	50.0	94.1	1.0	2.0	3.0	0.7	1.3	0.7	0.0	3.3	18.3
Chris Webber	F-C	3	35.3	63.3	45.5	50.0	2.3	5.7	8.0	3.3	0.7	2.3	5.3	6.0	15.7
Calbert Cheaney	F-G	3	40.0	43.9	0.0	75.0	2.0	1.7	3.7	1.3	1.0	0.7	1.7	3.3	15.0
Gheorghe Muresan	C	3	23.3	44.4		87.5	0.7	5.3	6.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	3.7	2.0	5.0
Chris Whitney	G	3	6.7	40.0	50.0	100.0	0.0	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	1.7	0.3	2.3
Tim Legler	G	3	6.3	0.0	0.0	50.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.3
Harvey Grant	F	3	9.7	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.3	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	1.7	0.0
Jaren Jackson	G-F	3	3.7			0.0	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	2.3	0.0
Lorenzo Williams	F-C	2	2.5				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0
Averages		810	22.5	47.4	41.9	78.2	1.1	2.3	3.3	1.6	0.4	0.6	1.7	2.4	8.9