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- It's not often a team misses three alley-oops in one quarter and still wins by 26 points. It's even rarer for the Washington Wizards to start 0-5.
That hasn't happened since they were the Baltimore Bullets.
The Denver Nuggets treated the Verizon Center as their own personal playground Friday night, breaking a three-game losing streak with a 118-92 victory that provided comic relief for the winners and showers of boos for the losers.
"We scored 118; we threw away 20," Denver coach George Karl said. "We play a style where I know we're going to have mistakes, but sometimes we make the mistakes and don't make the defense make the plays. It will be interesting the film we'll put together -- maybe we'll put it to Abbott and Costello."
Carmelo Anthony scored 32 points, including 12 consecutive Denver points in the third quarter. Marcus Camby added 13 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the Nuggets, who shot 51 percent and rebounded from a 119-93 pounding Wednesday night at Boston.
"We lost three straight -- and this was the game we really needed," Anthony said. "We needed to get our confidence back, get our swagger back."
The Wizards fell to 0-5 for the first time since 1966, when their home was up the road in Baltimore. The third quarter has to rank among the most embarrassing 12 minutes of basketball since the team moved to the nation's capital: Coach Eddie Jordan, who pronounced his team's mind-set as "fine" before the game, watched his team miss 7 of 10 shots, commit 12 turnovers and get outscored 33-11 in the quarter.
"We just weren't disciplined. We didn't stay organized. We didn't rebound. We didn't share the ball. We didn't execute," Jordan said. "It's one of the most disappointing games I've been involved in."
Gilbert Arenas, still laboring on a surgically repaired left knee that was drained for a second time on Wednesday, finished with 18 points on 5-for-13 shooting. He made 2 of 8 3-pointers and is 5-for-32 from 3-point range on the season. He remained in the trainer's room long after the game and was not available for comment, needing treatment after playing 42 minutes on Thursday in New Jersey and 37 minutes on Friday.
"Back-to-back's going to be difficult for him right now," Jordan said.
Caron Butler scored 14 of his 21 points in the first quarter for the Wizards, while Antawn Jamison (6-for-17) and DeShawn Stevenson (0-for-6) continued to struggle from the field. Washington shot 38 percent, only a slight improvement over their NBA-worst 36.4 percent entering the game.
"We need to get our act in order, and we have to find a way to get a win, period," Jamison said. "Not only get a win, but find a way to get this thing rolling because it's not rolling at all. You can see it. When you're out there, you're experiencing it."
The Nuggets had won their first two and lost their next three, but they were in the mood to have fun Friday. They attempted six alley-oops, missing all three in the second quarter but making three others, including a poetry-in-motion twisting reverse slam by J.R. Smith on a feed from Allen Iverson in the fourth quarter.
Smith finished with 16 points and Iverson had 15 points and eight assists, but Anthony had the best run. The Baltimore native's 12 straight points in the third quarter all came on jump shots, including a pair of 3-pointers, as part of a 14-4 spurt that gave the Nuggets an 80-58 lead. Anthony went 3-for-13 against the Celtics, but he was 14-for-24 Friday night.
"'Melo led us tonight. He caught fire," Iverson said. "We just rode his coattails all the way in."
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Just like they did so many times when Larry Brown was their coach, the Philadelphia 76ers turned to their defense to bail them out.
Allen Iverson missed 14 of his first 18 shots, including a breakaway layup, but finished with 24 points to lead the Sixers to an 87-85 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night.
Paul Pierce scored 33 and Vin Baker had 22 for the Celtics, who have lost three straight and four of five.
The Sixers held Boston to just 27.8 percent shooting (10-for-36) in the second half, erasing a nine-point halftime deficit.
"We got a little more defensive and really started to contest shots," first-year coach Randy Ayers said. "We did a solid job at that end of the floor."
The Sixers, again playing without Glenn Robinson (ankle) and Derrick Coleman (knee), have won two straight for just the second time this season.
Kenny Thomas had 14 points and 12 rebounds and Marc Jackson had 12 points and nine rebounds in Robinson's spot.
Pierce scored eight straight points on a dunk and consecutive 3-pointers as Boston tied it at 83 with 1:28 left. Aaron McKie answered with a jumper to give the Sixers an 85-83 lead with 1:05 to go, and a swarming defense forced a shot clock violation of Boston's next possession.
After Iverson missed a driving layup, Walter McCarty missed a 3-pointer with 9.5 seconds left. Iverson then iced it with two free throws.
"That's what we're trying to get to, play gritty, blue-collar basketball," McKie said. "If we can do that, we can have a good defensive team."
Iverson, back after missing one game with a knee injury, made four of his last five shots and finished 8-for-25. He had a team-high eight assists.
He missed a wide-open layup in the third quarter when it appeared he couldn't decide whether to dunk or lay it in. A minute later, Iverson made a dunk on a fast break.
The Celtics were coming off a loss to New Orleans on Wednesday in which they scored a season-low 73 points. They had 66 points through three quarters, but missed 16 of 24 shots in the fourth quarter.
"Our offense stopped in the second half," Celtics coach Jim O'Brien said. "We have to play the brand of basketball we've been playing in first halves. I can't figure it out."
After a basket by Baker gave the Celtics a 68-65 lead to start the fourth, the Sixers went on an 8-0 run and didn't trail again. Iverson hit a 3-pointer to tie it and a jumper for a 71-68 lead.
Consecutive fast-break layups by McKie and Iverson extended Philadelphia's lead to 83-75.
The Celtics took their biggest lead, 51-39, on a jumper by Pierce that capped a 12-4 run with 7.5 seconds left in the first half. John Salmons answered with his second straight 3-pointer right before the buzzer to cut it to 51-42.
"I really don't understand it," Pierce said. "Some way, somehow we play good first halves and then, in the third quarter, we start to let teams back into games. We are not playing with a sense of urgency for the whole 48 minutes."
Game notes
Through the first 12 games, Boston has not been involved in a game in which 100 points were scored -- the longest such streak for the Celtics since the start of the 1953-54 season. ... Robinson has missed nine games with a sprained left ankle. Coleman has missed five with a strained left knee. ... The Sixers have won 16 of their last 21 games against Boston. ... Eric Snow is the only Sixers player to start all 13 games.
