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1997-98 Cleveland Cavaliers Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 47-35, Finished 5th in NBA Central Division

Coach: Mike Fratello (47-35)

Executive: Wayne Embry

PTS/G: 92.5 (24th of 29) Opp PTS/G: 89.8 (4th of 29)

SRS: 3.06 (10th of 29) Pace: 89.9 (17th of 29)

Off Rtg: 102.1 (24th of 29) Def Rtg: 99.1 (1st of 29) Net Rtg: +3.0 (10th of 29)

Expected W-L: 49-33 (10th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +6000, Over-Under 37.5

Arena: Gund Arena Attendance: 694,629 (14th of 29)

NBA 1998 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Eastern Conference First Round (1-3) versus Indiana Pacers (Series Stats)

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

1. Oct 31 @ HOU, CLE (0-1) lost to HOU, 86-94

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Birth	Exp	College
23	Derek Anderson	SF	6-5	194	July 18, 1974	us US	R	Ohio State, Kentucky
2	Scott Brooks	PG	5-11	165	July 31, 1965	us US	9	TCU, University of California, Irvine
6	Mitchell Butler	SG	6-5	210	December 15, 1970	us US	4	UCLA
27	Tony Dumas	SG	6-6	190	August 25, 1972	us US	3	Missouri-Kansas City
35	Danny Ferry	PF	6-10	230	October 17, 1966	us US	7	Duke
20	Greg Graham	SG	6-4	174	November 26, 1970	us US	4	Indiana
45	Cedric Henderson	SF	6-7	215	March 11, 1975	us US	R	Memphis
11	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	7-3	238	June 5, 1975	lt LT	R
32	Henry James	PF	6-8	220	July 29, 1965	us US	6	South Plains College, St. Mary's University
4	Shawn Kemp	PF	6-10	230	November 26, 1969	us US	8	Trinity Valley CC, Kentucky
12	Brevin Knight	PG	5-10	173	November 8, 1975	us US	R	Stanford
1	Wesley Person	SG	6-6	195	March 28, 1971	us US	3	Auburn
52	Vitaly Potapenko	C	6-10	280	March 21, 1975	ua UA	1	Wright State University
44	Shawnelle Scott	C	6-10	250	June 16, 1972	us US	1	St. John's
3	Bob Sura	SG	6-5	200	March 25, 1973	us US	2	Florida State
30	Carl Thomas	SG	6-4	175	October 3, 1969	us US	2	Eastern Michigan

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

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Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Wesley Person	26	82	82	39.0	5.4	11.7	.460	2.3	5.5	.430	3.0	6.2	.486	.560	1.6	2.1	.776	0.8	3.6	4.4	2.3	1.6	0.6	1.3	1.3	14.7
2	Shawn Kemp	28	80	80	34.6	6.5	14.6	.445	0.0	0.1	.250	6.5	14.5	.446	.446	5.1	7.0	.727	2.7	6.6	9.3	2.5	1.4	1.1	3.4	3.9	18.0
3	Brevin Knight	22	80	76	31.0	3.3	7.4	.441	0.0	0.1	.000	3.3	7.3	.446	.441	2.5	3.1	.801	0.8	2.3	3.2	8.2	2.5	0.2	2.4	3.4	9.0
4	Cedric Henderson	22	82	71	30.8	4.2	8.8	.480	0.0	0.0	.000	4.2	8.8	.483	.480	1.7	2.3	.716	0.9	3.1	4.0	2.0	1.2	0.5	2.0	2.9	10.1
5	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	82	81	29.0	5.5	10.7	.518	0.0	0.0	.250	5.5	10.6	.519	.519	2.8	3.7	.762	3.4	5.4	8.8	0.9	0.6	1.6	1.8	3.5	13.9
6	Derek Anderson	23	66	13	27.9	3.6	8.9	.408	0.3	1.3	.202	3.4	7.6	.442	.422	4.2	4.8	.873	0.8	2.0	2.8	3.4	1.3	0.2	1.9	2.1	11.7
7	Bob Sura	24	46	4	20.5	1.9	5.0	.377	0.4	1.3	.317	1.5	3.7	.398	.418	1.6	2.8	.565	0.5	1.5	2.0	3.7	1.0	0.2	2.0	2.5	5.8
8	Vitaly Potapenko	22	80	0	17.7	2.9	6.1	.480	0.0	0.0	.000	2.9	6.1	.480	.480	1.3	1.8	.708	1.4	2.5	3.9	0.7	0.3	0.4	1.7	2.5	7.1
9	Danny Ferry	31	69	3	15.0	1.6	4.1	.395	0.5	1.4	.333	1.2	2.7	.428	.453	0.5	0.6	.800	0.3	1.3	1.7	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.8	1.7	4.2
10	Mitchell Butler	27	18	0	11.4	0.8	2.6	.319	0.1	0.3	.167	0.8	2.3	.341	.330	0.3	0.6	.600	0.3	0.9	1.2	1.0	0.4	0.0	0.4	1.4	2.1
11	Carl Thomas	28	29	0	9.4	0.9	2.4	.386	0.5	1.3	.395	0.4	1.1	.375	.493	0.3	0.4	.615	0.2	1.1	1.3	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.7
12	Greg Graham	27	6	0	9.3	1.2	2.0	.583	0.0	0.5	.000	1.2	1.5	.778	.583	0.3	0.3	1.000	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.0	1.7	1.2	2.7
13	Scott Brooks	32	43	0	7.3	0.7	1.5	.424	0.1	0.3	.455	0.5	1.3	.418	.462	0.4	0.5	.900	0.1	0.6	0.7	1.1	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.6	1.8
14	Tony Dumas	25	7	0	6.7	0.9	1.7	.500	0.3	0.6	.500	0.6	1.1	.500	.583	0.0	0.4	.000	0.1	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.7	2.0
15	Henry James	32	28	0	5.9	0.9	2.1	.407	0.4	0.9	.440	0.5	1.2	.382	.500	0.8	0.8	.955	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.9	2.9
16	Shawnelle Scott	25	41	0	4.6	0.4	0.9	.444	0.0	0.0		0.4	0.9	.444	.444	0.3	0.4	.667	0.5	1.0	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	1.1	1.1

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cedric Henderson	22	4	4	39.3	2.8	7.0	.393	0.0	0.3	.000	2.8	6.8	.407	.393	2.0	3.3	.615	1.0	3.3	4.3	2.8	1.5	0.0	3.3	3.5	7.5
2	Shawn Kemp	28	4	4	38.0	8.3	17.8	.465	0.0	0.0		8.3	17.8	.465	.465	9.5	11.3	.844	4.0	6.3	10.3	2.0	1.3	1.0	4.0	3.0	26.0
3	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	4	4	36.8	7.0	12.3	.571	0.0	0.0		7.0	12.3	.571	.571	3.3	6.3	.520	3.5	4.0	7.5	0.5	0.5	1.3	2.5	5.5	17.3
4	Wesley Person	26	4	4	34.0	2.8	7.3	.379	1.8	4.8	.368	1.0	2.5	.400	.500	0.8	1.0	.750	0.5	1.8	2.3	2.5	0.8	0.0	0.3	1.3	8.0
5	Brevin Knight	22	4	4	33.0	1.5	5.3	.286	0.0	0.0		1.5	5.3	.286	.286	1.5	2.5	.600	0.0	4.0	4.0	5.8	2.5	0.3	2.0	4.0	4.5
6	Derek Anderson	23	4	0	25.8	2.5	5.5	.455	0.0	0.0		2.5	5.5	.455	.455	5.8	6.5	.885	0.0	2.3	2.3	2.8	1.3	0.3	3.0	2.5	10.8
7	Vitaly Potapenko	22	4	0	17.5	1.5	3.8	.400	0.0	0.0		1.5	3.8	.400	.400	1.3	2.5	.500	0.8	2.0	2.8	0.8	0.5	0.0	1.5	2.0	4.3
8	Carl Thomas	28	1	0	11.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	.000	2.0	3.0	.667	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	2.0
9	Bob Sura	24	3	0	10.3	0.3	1.7	.200	0.0	0.7	.000	0.3	1.0	.333	.200	0.7	1.0	.667	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.3	0.3	0.0	0.7	1.3	1.3
10	Scott Brooks	32	1	0	8.0	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	.000	2.0	2.0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0
11	Danny Ferry	31	3	0	3.3	0.0	0.7	.000	0.0	0.7	.000	0.0	0.0		.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
12	Shawnelle Scott	25	1	0	3.0	1.0	2.0	.500	0.0	0.0		1.0	2.0	.500	.500	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	2.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Wesley Person	26	82	82	3198	440	957	.460	192	447	.430	248	510	.486	.560	132	170	.776	65	298	363	188	129	49	110	108	1204
2	Shawn Kemp	28	80	80	2769	518	1164	.445	2	8	.250	516	1156	.446	.446	404	556	.727	219	526	745	197	108	90	271	310	1442
3	Cedric Henderson	22	82	71	2527	348	725	.480	0	4	.000	348	721	.483	.480	136	190	.716	71	254	325	168	96	45	165	238	832
4	Brevin Knight	22	80	76	2483	261	592	.441	0	7	.000	261	585	.446	.441	201	251	.801	67	186	253	656	196	18	194	271	723
5	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	82	81	2379	454	876	.518	1	4	.250	453	872	.519	.519	230	302	.762	279	444	723	71	52	135	146	288	1139
6	Derek Anderson	23	66	13	1839	239	586	.408	17	84	.202	222	502	.442	.422	275	315	.873	55	132	187	227	86	13	128	136	770
7	Vitaly Potapenko	22	80	0	1412	234	488	.480	0	1	.000	234	487	.480	.480	102	144	.708	110	203	313	57	27	28	132	198	570
8	Danny Ferry	31	69	3	1034	113	286	.395	33	99	.333	80	187	.428	.453	32	40	.800	23	91	114	59	26	17	53	118	291
9	Bob Sura	24	46	4	942	87	231	.377	19	60	.317	68	171	.398	.418	74	131	.565	25	69	94	171	44	7	93	113	267
10	Scott Brooks	32	43	0	312	28	66	.424	5	11	.455	23	55	.418	.462	18	20	.900	6	24	30	49	18	3	12	25	79
11	Carl Thomas	28	29	0	272	27	70	.386	15	38	.395	12	32	.375	.493	8	13	.615	6	31	37	9	16	5	12	27	77
12	Mitchell Butler	27	18	0	206	15	47	.319	1	6	.167	14	41	.341	.330	6	10	.600	6	16	22	18	8	0	8	26	37
13	Shawnelle Scott	25	41	0	188	16	36	.444	0	0		16	36	.444	.444	12	18	.667	20	39	59	8	6	8	10	45	44
14	Henry James	32	28	0	166	24	59	.407	11	25	.440	13	34	.382	.500	21	22	.955	2	13	15	5	1	1	12	24	80
15	Greg Graham	27	6	0	56	7	12	.583	0	3	.000	7	9	.778	.583	2	2	1.000	0	1	1	6	1	0	10	7	16
16	Tony Dumas	25	7	0	47	6	12	.500	2	4	.500	4	8	.500	.583	0	3	.000	1	4	5	5	0	0	5	5	14
			82		19830	2817	6207	.454	298	801	.372	2519	5406	.466	.478	1653	2187	.756	955	2331	3286	1894	814	419	1421	1939	7585

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Cedric Henderson	22	4	4	157	11	28	.393	0	1	.000	11	27	.407	.393	8	13	.615	4	13	17	11	6	0	13	14	30
2	Shawn Kemp	28	4	4	152	33	71	.465	0	0		33	71	.465	.465	38	45	.844	16	25	41	8	5	4	16	12	104
3	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	4	4	147	28	49	.571	0	0		28	49	.571	.571	13	25	.520	14	16	30	2	2	5	10	22	69
4	Wesley Person	26	4	4	136	11	29	.379	7	19	.368	4	10	.400	.500	3	4	.750	2	7	9	10	3	0	1	5	32
5	Brevin Knight	22	4	4	132	6	21	.286	0	0		6	21	.286	.286	6	10	.600	0	16	16	23	10	1	8	16	18
6	Derek Anderson	23	4	0	103	10	22	.455	0	0		10	22	.455	.455	23	26	.885	0	9	9	11	5	1	12	10	43
7	Vitaly Potapenko	22	4	0	70	6	15	.400	0	0		6	15	.400	.400	5	10	.500	3	8	11	3	2	0	6	8	17
8	Bob Sura	24	3	0	31	1	5	.200	0	2	.000	1	3	.333	.200	2	3	.667	0	3	3	4	1	0	2	4	4
9	Carl Thomas	28	1	0	11	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	2	3	.667	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
10	Danny Ferry	31	3	0	10	0	2	.000	0	2	.000	0	0		.000	0	0		0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
11	Scott Brooks	32	1	0	8	0	1	.000	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	2	2	1.000	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
12	Shawnelle Scott	25	1	0	3	1	2	.500	0	0		1	2	.500	.500	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Wesley Person	26	82	3198	15.1	.583	.467	.178	2.5	11.3	7.0	10.3	2.2	1.2	9.6	16.5		5.3	5.0	10.3	.155		2.4	1.4	3.8	4.7
2	Shawn Kemp	28	80	2769	17.5	.512	.007	.478	9.9	23.0	16.5	13.6	2.1	2.5	16.1	28.0		0.9	5.9	6.8	.118		-0.5	1.1	0.6	1.8
3	Cedric Henderson	22	82	2527	10.7	.514	.006	.262	3.5	12.2	7.9	11.6	2.0	1.4	16.9	17.8		-0.2	4.0	3.8	.072		-2.7	1.1	-1.6	0.3
4	Brevin Knight	22	80	2483	17.1	.515	.012	.424	3.4	9.1	6.3	43.7	4.2	0.6	21.6	16.7		3.5	4.9	8.4	.163		0.5	3.1	3.6	3.5
5	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	82	2379	19.7	.564	.005	.345	14.6	22.6	18.6	5.7	1.2	4.3	12.6	22.4		4.5	4.9	9.4	.189		1.0	0.5	1.4	2.1
6	Derek Anderson	23	66	1839	15.3	.531	.143	.538	3.7	8.7	6.2	21.3	2.5	0.5	15.0	21.4		2.6	2.8	5.3	.139		0.3	1.4	1.7	1.7
7	Vitaly Potapenko	22	80	1412	11.0	.517	.002	.295	9.7	17.4	13.6	7.4	1.0	1.5	19.3	22.4		-0.7	2.2	1.5	.052		-3.7	-0.4	-4.1	-0.8
8	Danny Ferry	31	69	1034	7.5	.479	.346	.140	2.8	10.6	6.8	9.5	1.3	1.2	14.9	15.9		-0.4	1.4	1.0	.049		-3.0	0.7	-2.3	-0.1
9	Bob Sura	24	46	942	9.6	.463	.260	.567	3.3	8.9	6.1	29.4	2.5	0.6	24.4	18.7		-0.7	1.4	0.7	.036		-2.9	1.0	-1.9	0.0
10	Scott Brooks	32	43	312	13.9	.528	.167	.303	2.4	9.3	5.9	25.3	3.1	0.7	13.8	12.8		0.5	0.5	1.0	.156		-0.2	2.8	2.6	0.4
11	Carl Thomas	28	29	272	10.0	.508	.543	.186	2.7	13.8	8.3	5.4	3.1	1.4	13.7	14.9		0.0	0.5	0.5	.092		-2.1	2.2	0.1	0.1
12	Mitchell Butler	27	18	206	4.8	.360	.128	.213	3.6	9.4	6.6	13.7	2.1	0.0	13.5	13.3		-0.2	0.3	0.1	.016		-5.0	2.1	-2.9	0.0
13	Shawnelle Scott	25	41	188	10.6	.501	.000	.500	13.3	25.1	19.3	6.8	1.7	3.2	18.5	13.2		0.1	0.4	0.5	.132		-4.5	2.0	-2.5	0.0
14	Henry James	32	28	166	10.6	.582	.424	.373	1.5	9.5	5.5	5.3	0.3	0.5	14.9	22.4		0.2	0.2	0.3	.101		-1.9	-1.5	-3.4	-0.1
15	Greg Graham	27	6	56	2.1	.621	.250	.167	0.0	2.2	1.1	18.3	1.0	0.0	43.7	18.9		-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.096		-7.0	-1.8	-8.8	-0.1
16	Tony Dumas	25	7	47	5.4	.526	.333	.250	2.7	10.3	6.5	18.3	0.0	0.0	27.3	18.0		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.030		-4.4	-1.6	-6.0	0.0

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Cedric Henderson	22	4	157	4.8	.445	.036	.464	3.7	12.0	7.9	14.4	2.2	0.0	27.8	15.0		-0.3	0.1	-0.2	-0.058		-3.7	0.7	-3.0	0.0
2	Shawn Kemp	28	4	152	25.9	.573	.000	.634	15.3	23.9	19.6	15.5	1.9	2.3	15.0	35.4		0.4	0.2	0.6	.179		5.3	1.1	6.4	0.3
3	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	22	4	147	16.3	.575	.000	.510	13.9	15.8	14.8	3.7	0.8	3.0	14.3	24.0		0.2	0.1	0.3	.084		0.1	-0.7	-0.6	0.1
4	Wesley Person	26	4	136	10.4	.520	.655	.138	2.1	7.5	4.8	15.4	1.3	0.0	3.1	11.8		0.2	0.0	0.2	.081		2.7	0.3	3.0	0.2
5	Brevin Knight	22	4	132	8.9	.354	.000	.476	0.0	17.6	8.8	34.0	4.4	0.7	24.0	12.7		-0.2	0.2	0.0	.007		-4.2	3.3	-0.8	0.0
6	Derek Anderson	23	4	103	15.1	.643	.000	1.182	0.0	12.7	6.4	23.2	2.8	0.9	26.4	22.2		0.1	0.1	0.2	.097		0.1	2.6	2.7	0.1
7	Vitaly Potapenko	22	4	70	4.6	.438	.000	.667	6.2	16.6	11.4	9.1	1.7	0.0	23.6	18.3		-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.074		-4.6	-0.4	-5.0	-0.1
8	Bob Sura	24	3	31	2.6	.316	.400	.600	0.0	14.1	7.0	24.6	1.9	0.0	24.0	13.5		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.077		-6.4	-0.4	-6.8	0.0
9	Carl Thomas	28	1	11	4.1	.431	.000	3.000	13.2	0.0	6.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.6		0.0	0.0	0.0	.050		-3.2	-2.6	-5.8	0.0
10	Danny Ferry	31	3	10	-8.5	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	14.5	7.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.1		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.217		-10.9	-4.5	-15.5	0.0
11	Scott Brooks	32	1	8	14.9	.532	.000	2.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	44.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	11.8		0.0	0.0	0.0	.189		2.4	-0.2	2.2	0.0
12	Shawnelle Scott	25	1	3	11.0	.500	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	29.5	33.3	50.4		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.403		-9.3	6.1	-3.2	0.0

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