Even though the Washington Wizards' coaching staff would ideally like to play forward Michael Jordan between 32 and 35 minutes per game, Coach Doug Collins said he would not hesitate to play Jordan more minutes if needed.

"I'm not going to monitor Michael's minutes on a night we have a chance to win a game so that he can play the next night," Collins said tonight. "If we've got a chance to win a game we've got to try to do that. The monitoring would have to come the next night. We can't get to a point where I say, 'Oh, jeez. He's played 33 minutes, I've got to get him out of there because we have to play tomorrow night.' He might play 39 minutes one night, come back the next night and play 29 minutes. I think we both know how we want to monitor that situation."