Eddie Jordan

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The 2006-07 campaign marks Eddie Jordan’s fourth season at the helm in Washington, and the Washington, DC product continues to make his homecoming a special one. Born and raised in Washington, Jordan returned to DC prior to the 2003-04 season, and in just his second season with the Wizards in 2004-05, Jordan guided the team to its first Playoff appearance in eight years and its first postseason series win since 1982. In the follow-up season in 2005-06, the Wizards finished the regular season at 42-20, as Jordan, the NBA Eastern Conference’s longest tenured Head Coach, took the franchise advance to the Playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1986-87 and 1987-88.

Signed to an extension during the summer of 2006, Jordan’s influence on his young and talented team is evident. Jordan saw Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison selected to the All-Star team for the first time in their careers in 2005, guided Arenas to back-to-back All-NBA seasons in 2005 and 2006, and presided over the career-best seasons of Caron Butler in 2005-06 and Larry Hughes in 2004-05. With one of the league’s youngest nucleuses, Jordan and the Wizards enjoyed the franchise’s best season since 1978-79 in 2004-05, established a new record for wins in a season at Verizon Center in that same season, and earned the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference in consecutive years to achieve an organizational goal of becoming perennial playoff contenders...More