Utah Jazz beat Dallas Mavericks 93–81 for the NBA belt (Dec 20, 2002)

Dallas Mavericks had held it since December 14, 2002, with 2 defenses over 6 days.

Utah Jazz held it for 7 days and 2 defenses, then lost it to Portland Trail Blazers on December 27, 2002.

2,258Reign number

49Team's reign

2Defenses

7Days held

Box score

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG	3P	FT
Matt Harpring	36	19	4	1	0	0	7-16	3-5	2-3
Calbert Cheaney	31	18	7	3	3	1	8-12	1-1	1-4
Greg Ostertag	36	16	6	4	1	2	5-7	0-0	6-10
Karl Malone	40	16	12	3	1	0	5-16	0-0	6-11
Scott Padgett	10	7	1	0	0	0	3-6	0-2	1-1
John Stockton	29	6	6	7	1	0	1-7	0-2	4-5
Mark Jackson	17	5	2	5	0	0	2-3	1-1	0-0
Andrei Kirilenko	27	4	9	1	1	2	1-2	0-1	2-3
Tony Massenburg	8	2	3	0	0	0	1-2	0-0	0-0
Carlos Arroyo	1	0	0	0	1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0
DeShawn Stevenson	—	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0
John Amaechi	—	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG	3P	FT
Dirk Nowitzki	48	28	17	1	4	0	7-18	1-6	13-15
Steve Nash	38	25	0	5	0	0	8-16	2-5	7-8
Michael Finley	44	16	6	1	2	0	7-21	0-6	2-2
Walt Williams	19	4	4	1	1	1	1-5	0-4	2-2
Adrian Griffin	12	3	4	0	0	0	1-4	1-1	0-0
Shawn Bradley	26	3	4	0	1	3	0-1	0-0	3-4
Raef LaFrentz	18	2	1	0	0	0	1-3	0-0	0-0
Raja Bell	3	0	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-1	0-0
Nick Van Exel	23	0	0	0	2	0	0-5	0-1	0-0
Popeye Jones	—	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0
Avery Johnson	4	0	1	1	0	0	0-1	0-0	0-0
Adam Harrington	—	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0

Utah Jazz take the belt