Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5:31 PM | 1 comments |
 

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Two of the Washington Wizards best players, Gilbert Arenas and Mike Miller, are out of tonight's pre-season game with "flu-like symptoms." 

The probable Wizards starters: DeShawn Stevenson, Randy Foye, Caron Butler, Andray Blatche, and Brendan Haywood.

Sixers will start the same five they've been starting: Lou Williams, Andre Iguodala, Thaddeus Young, Elton Brand, and Samuel Dalembert.

Only Sixer on the roster not suiting up tonight is Rodney Carney, who is still out with a strained left hamstring.

Just finished pre-game conference with Eddie Jordan. As we all know, the last team Jordan coached was the Wizards -- they fired him early last season.

Here's another thing to keep an eye on tonight: The Wizards will know the Princeton Offense, probably better than the Sixers do at this point. Last Friday night against the New York Knicks (the Knicks had a couple of players who ran the Princeton under Jordan), the Sixers went away from the PO. Jordan called tonight a "unique challenge" because of Washington's knowledge of the offense. Jordan mentioned the team might run a lot of pick-and-roll stuff.

Just uploaded a video of the beginning of Jordan's press conference. It should be in the video player at the right.

(For Statman, 127, etc. ... I'm in the process of trying to get cleared to post comments on the new site, as soon as I do, I'll try to jump on there for comments as well.)

--Kate

 
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:20 AM, 10/21/2009
    kate: hope you get clearance to post-if you can't, there is something wrong! will enjoy the further dialogue in addition to your comments and observations.
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About John Mitchell
John Mitchell is in his first year covering the 76ers for the Inquirer after joining the paper in November 2011. He covered the Washington Wizards for the Washington Times from 1998 to 2008. He's also worked at the Philadelphia Tribune, the Wilmington News Journal, Courier-Post, Trenton Times and Elmira Star-Gazette.

Born and raised in West Philadelphia - not too far from Will Smith - he graduated from Overbrook High School the same year the 76ers won their last championship. He's a proud graduate of Howard University and the proud father of two sons, Jared and Jordan.

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