Washington Wizards beat New Jersey Nets 98–76 for the NBA belt (Dec 31, 2001)

New Jersey Nets had held it since December 29, 2001, with 0 defenses over 2 days.

Washington Wizards held it for 11 days and 2 defenses, then lost it to Milwaukee Bucks on January 11, 2002.

2,220Reign number

84Team's reign

2Defenses

11Days held

Box score

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG	3P	FT
Michael Jordan	38	45	10	7	3	0	16-32	1-3	12-13
Chris Whitney	34	14	4	2	0	0	6-14	2-6	0-0
Popeye Jones	35	12	14	2	0	0	6-10	0-0	0-0
Hubert Davis	37	10	2	3	0	0	3-10	2-3	2-2
Tyronn Lue	24	6	3	2	0	0	2-9	2-5	0-0
Bobby Simmons	2	4	2	0	0	0	1-2	0-0	2-2
Brendan Haywood	29	3	13	1	0	2	1-6	0-0	1-2
Etan Thomas	6	2	2	0	0	1	1-3	0-0	0-0
Jahidi White	18	2	10	0	0	0	1-1	0-0	0-0
Kwame Brown	2	0	1	0	0	0	0-1	0-0	0-0
Courtney Alexander	—	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0
Tyrone Nesby	9	0	1	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG	3P	FT
Kenyon Martin	32	16	5	3	2	0	4-7	1-1	7-10
Keith Van Horn	29	16	3	2	1	0	8-16	0-2	0-0
Kerry Kittles	27	14	0	2	2	0	6-10	0-1	2-2
Jason Kidd	37	10	6	11	1	1	5-18	0-6	0-0
Richard Jefferson	20	5	1	0	1	0	2-5	0-0	1-2
Aaron Williams	17	3	3	2	0	0	1-5	0-0	1-2
Derrick Dial	10	3	2	0	1	0	1-3	0-0	1-2
Jason Collins	19	3	4	1	0	1	0-1	0-0	3-4
Lucious Harris	16	3	3	1	0	0	1-5	0-1	1-1
Steve Goodrich	3	2	1	0	0	0	1-2	0-0	0-0
Todd MacCulloch	20	1	2	0	0	0	0-1	0-0	1-4
Brandon Armstrong	3	0	0	0	0	0	0-2	0-0	0-0

Washington Wizards take the belt