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Antawn Jamison Manny Millan/SI FAST FACTS Record: 25-57 (13th in East) Points Scored: 91.8 (18th in NBA) Points Allowed: 97.4 (22nd) Coach: Eddie Jordan (second season with the Wizards) 2004 Schedule | 2004 Draft Picks | 2003 Stats The 2003-04 Wizards led the league in turnovers committed (17.5 per game) and steals given up (9.6), while ranking last in assists (18.7). PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP With 2003-04 statistics BRENDAN HAYWOOD POS. PVR PPG RPG APG BPG SPG FG% FT% C 228 7.0 5.0 0.6 1.30 0.42 51.5 58.5 KWAME BROWN POS. PVR PPG RPG APG BPG SPG FG% FT% PF 113 10.9 7.4 1.5 0.70 0.89 48.9 68.3 LARRY HUGHES POS. PVR PPG RPG APG SPG FG% 3FG% FT% SG 79 18.8 5.3 2.4 1.56 39.7 34.1 79.7 GILBERT ARENAS POS. PVR PPG RPG APG SPG FG% 3FG% FT% PG 50 19.6 4.6 5.0 1.87 39.2 37.5 74.8 ANTAWN JAMISON POS. PVR PPG RPG APG SPG FG% 3FG% FT% SF 40 14.8 6.3 0.9 1.01 53.5 40.0 74.8  BENCH PVR 2003-04 Stats F JARVIS HAYES 143 9.6 ppg 3.8 rpg 1.01 spg 40.0 FG% 30.5 3FG% C-F ETAN THOMAS 174 8.9 ppg 6.7 rpg 0.9 apg 1.56 bpg 48.9 FG% G ANTHONY PEELER 232 5.7 ppg 2.0 rpg 1.6 apg 44.8 FG% 48.2 3FG% G STEVE BLAKE 307 5.9 ppg 1.6 rpg 2.8 apg 0.76 spg 38.6 FG% F JARED JEFFRIES 329 5.7 ppg 5.2 rpg 1.1 apg 0.59 spg 37.7 FG%

A newcomer welcomes an upgrade from sixth man to the go-to guy

If you were going to make a movie about Antawn Jamison's 2003-04 season, you might call it 'Tawn of the Dead. Not that the year didn't have its highlights: In his lone season with Dallas and his first as a reserve, he won the NBA's Sixth Man award. Still, Jamison's role made him something of a basketball zombie. "Last year I just went out there with a businesslike attitude and got it done," he says. "But I wasn't out there at the start and I wasn't out there in the late-game situations, and I think those are the two most important parts of a game. When that happens, your frame of mind changes and you can get complacent."

Jamison promises to come back to life on the court this season -- a welcome development for the moribund Wizards, who have missed the playoffs for seven straight seasons. They traded Jerry Stackhouse, Christian Laettner and the No. 5 pick in 2004 for Jamison, whose cutting and quick decision-making fit well into the Princeton offense. "He's not going to catch and post up and let the clock tick down and tick down," coach Eddie Jordan says. "He's as efficient a scorer as [former Jordan teammate] Bernard King."

While this will be Jamison's third team in three years, he sees plenty of familiar faces in Washington's lineup. He played with Gilbert Arenas and Larry Hughes at Golden State. He shares an agent with Kwame Brown and Etan Thomas. His sister, Latosha, went to school with Jarvis Hayes. He and Brendan Haywood, a former North Carolina teammate, were eating together in a Chapel Hill sports bar in June when Jamison saw on ESPN that he had been traded. "[Brendan] was like, 'Hey, you're my teammate again,'" Jamison says.

He's also Haywood's best hope for avoiding another horror show of a season. -- Bill Syken