was cause for great celebration in the heavily Dominican community of Washington Heights in New York City. He played 112 games for the Grizzlies before being traded to the Washington Wizards along with Dennis Scott, Cherokee Parks, and Obinna Ekezie in exchange for free agent Isaac Austin on August 22, 2000. López went on to sign as a free agent with both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks, although he never played a regular season game for the Mavs. He trained with the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers in the first months of the 2005–06 NBA season before signing a contract with Lleida. López holds career NBA averages of 5.8 points, 2.4 rebounds and one assist per game. Career statistics NBA Source Regular season |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Vancouver | 47 || 32 || 25.9 || .446 || .273 || .644 || 3.5 || 1.3 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 9.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Vancouver | 65 || 0 || 12.0 || .425 || .167 || .615 || 1.9 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 4.5 |- | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2 | | style="text-align:left;"| Washington | 47 || 38 || 23.6 || .436 || .207 || .732 || 3.4 || 1.6 || 0.9 || 0.4 || 8.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| Minnesota | 23 || 10 || 19.9 || .454 || .565 || .576 || 3.2 || 1.5 || 0.9 || 0.5 || 7.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Minnesota | 67 || 0 || 8.7 || .378 || .424 || .673 || 1.2 || 0.6 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 2.5 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 249 || 80 || 16.6 || .432 || .327 || .659 || 2.4 || 1.0 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 5.8 Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2001 | style="text-align:left;"| Minnesota | 4 || 0 || 13.8 || .318 || .200 || .667 || 2.8 || 1.3 || 1.0 || .0 || 4.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2002 | style="text-align:left;"| Minnesota | 3 || 0 || 10.0 || .250 || .500 || .500 || .3 || .3 || .3 || .0 || 1.3 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 7 || 0 || 12.1 || .308 || .286 || .600 || 1.7 || .9 || .7 || .0 || 3.0 References 5. Beat Nuts-Get Funky https://genius.com/The-beatnuts-get-funky-lyrics External links "Shoot the Moon", New Yorker article by Susan Orlean 1974 births Living