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Starting Lineups: Feb. 28

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

Who's ready for some sloppy basketball?

Coming off of a crazy night that saw 28 teams in action, the NBA has seven games on the scheduled Saturday, meaning 12 of the 14 teams suiting up will be on the second night of a back-to-back, and five games include opponents in that same situation.

No team has looked as sloppy and fatigued of late as the Washington Wizards, who look to snap their six-game losing streak against a surely exhausted Detroit Pistons team that lost in double-overtime on Friday. The Atlanta Hawks visit the Miami Heat and Andrea Bargnani hosts his former team at MSG.

The later slate sees the Memphis Grizzlies try to snap a brief skid against the upstart Minnesota Timberwolves, the Brooklyn Nets visit a potentially shorthanded Dallas Mavericks squad, the San Antonio Spurs take on the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks battling the Utah Jazz in a showdown of young, defensive-minded squads.

Hey, that's not so bad after all.

Here are Saturday's projected starting lineups.

Detroit Pistons at Washington Wizards, 7 p.m. ET

Pistons

  • PG: Reggie Jackson
  • SG: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
  • SF: Tayshaun Prince
  • PF: Greg Monroe
  • C: Andre Drummond

Wizards

  • PG: John Wall
  • SG: Bradley Beal
  • SF: Paul Pierce
  • PF: Nene Hilario
  • C: Marcin Gortat

Pistons PG Brandon Jennings (Achilles) remains out
Wizards SG Bradley Beal (leg) will play
Wizards SF Paul Pierce (knee) will play
Wizards PF Kris Humphries (hamstring) will not play

Atlanta Hawks at Miami Heat, 7:30 p.m. ET

Hawks

  • PG: Dennis Schroeder
  • SG: Kyle Korver
  • SF: Kent Bazemore
  • PF: Paul Millsap
  • C: Elton Brand

Hawks PG Jeff Teague (rest), SF DeMarre Carroll (rest), C Pero Antic (rest), C Al Horford (rest) will not play

Heat

  • PG: Goran Dragic
  • SG: Dwyane Wade
  • SF: Luol Deng
  • PF: Henry Walker
  • C: Hassan Whiteside

Hawks SF Thabo Sefolosha (calf) remains out
Heat C Chris Andersen (illness) will not play, PF Chris Bosh (medical), PF Josh McRoberts (knee) remain out

Toronto Raptors at New York Knicks, 7:30 p.m. ET

Raptors

  • PG: Greivis Vasquez
  • SG: DeMar DeRozan
  • SF: James Johnson
  • PF: Amir Johnson
  • C: Jonas Valanciunas

Knicks

  • PG: Langston Galloway
  • SG: Tim Hardaway Jr.
  • SF: Cleanthony Early
  • PF: Andrea Bargnani
  • C: Lou Amundson

Knicks PG Jose Calderon (Achilles) will not play
Knicks SF Carmelo Anthony (knee) remains out
Raptors PG Kyle Lowry (rest) will not play

Memphis Grizzlies at Minnesota Timberwolves, 8 p.m. ET

Grizzlies

  • PG: Mike Conley
  • SG: Courtney Lee
  • SF: Jeff Green
  • PF: Zach Randolph
  • C: Marc Gasol

Timberwolves

  • PG: Ricky Rubio
  • SG: Kevin Martin
  • SF: Andrew Wiggins
  • PF: Kevin Garnett
  • C: Nikola Pekovic

Grizzlies SF Vince Carter (foot) remains out
Timberwolves PF Shabazz Muhammad (finger), PF Anthony Bennett (leg), SF Robbie Hummel (hand) remain out

Brooklyn Nets at Dallas Mavericks, 8:30 p.m. ET

Nets

  • PG: Deron Williams
  • SG: Bojan Bogdanovic
  • SF: Alan Anderson
  • PF: Joe Johnson
  • C: Mason Plumlee

Mavericks

  • PG: Rajon Rondo
  • SG: J.J. Barea
  • SF: Monta Ellis
  • PF: Dirk Nowitzki
  • C: Tyson Chandler

Nets SG Bojan Bogdanovic (ankle) will play
Nets PF Mirza Teletovic (medical) remains out
Mavericks C Tyson Chandler (hip) is a game-time decision
Mavericks SF Chandler Parsons (ankle) will not play

San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns, 9 p.m. ET

Spurs

  • PG: Tony Parker
  • SG: Danny Green
  • SF: Kawhi Leonard
  • PF: Tim Duncan
  • C: Tiago Splitter

Suns

  • PG: Eric Bledsoe
  • SG: Brandon Knight
  • SF: P.J. Tucker
  • PF: Markieff Morris
  • C: Alex Len

Milwaukee Bucks at Utah Jazz, 9 p.m. ET

Bucks

  • PG: Michael Carter-Williams
  • SG: Khris Middleton
  • SF: Giannis Antetokounmpo
  • PF: Ersan Ilyasova
  • C: Zaza Pachulia

Jazz

  • PG: Dante Exum
  • SG: Joe Ingles
  • SF: Gordon Hayward
  • PF: Derrick Favors
  • C: Rudy Gobert

Bucks SG O.J. Mayo (hamstring) did not play Friday
Bucks SF Jared Dudley (knee, rest) will not play
Bucks PF Jabari Parker (knee), SF Damien Inglis (foot) remain out
Jazz SG Alec Burks (shoulder) remains out
 

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