Jarvis Hayes scored 24 points and Tayshaun Prince added 19 points to help the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 109-106 in a preseason game Sunday.
The Nuggets were missing most of their top players, including Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, Kenyon Martin and Nene.
Detroit had its full lineup, but guard Richard Hamilton left the game midway through the third quarter after spraining his left ankle while going for a rebound. Chauncey Billups added 16 points and Jason Maxiell had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons.
Michigan native Anthony Roberson led the Nuggets with 20 points, while Bobby Jones scored 17 and Von Wafer added 16. Marcus Camby was the only Denver starter to reach double figures, finishing with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
Detroit led by as many as 13 in the first half, and had a 63-54 halftime advantage. Prince had 17 of his 19 in the first half.
Denver, though, rallied in the third quarter, tying the game at 74 on Camby's fast-break dunk with 3 minutes left. The game was deadlocked at 79 going into the fourth, and stayed close throughout the period. Roberson's jumper pulled Denver within 105-104 with 27.6 seconds left.
Maxiell made it 107-104 with two free throws, and Roberson missed a tying 3-pointer before rookie Rodney Stuckey clinched the game from the line.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Washington Wizards beat the Dallas Mavericks 90-86 -10/13/07
- Andray Blatche had 12 points and 10 points, and the Washington Wizards beat the Dallas Mavericks 90-86 in a foul-filled preseason game on Saturday night.
Dallas, which played without three of its four top scorers from last season - reigning MVP Dirk Nowitzki, point guard Jason Terry and swingman Jerry Stackhouse - hardly resembled a team that won an NBA-best 67 games in the regular season. Nowitzki, Terry and Stackhouse were rested by coach Avery Johnson.
Washington, which took a 59-58 lead when Blatche hit two free throws with 3:22 to play in the third quarter, expanded its lead in the fourth quarter when coach Eddie Jordan made liberal use of his bench. After Dallas' Maurice Ager scored on a layup to cut the Washington lead to 67-66 with 10:05 to play, the Wizards scored 11 straight points to take a 78-66 lead with 6:14 to play.
Ager scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, leading a late Dallas run. Jared Newson hit two free throws with 11.3 seconds remaining to cut Washington's lead to 88-86. Dallas is 1-2 in the preseason.
The Wizards (2-0) shot 43 free throws, missing 14 of them. The Mavericks converted 25 of their 30 as the teams combined to commit 51 fouls.
Gilbert Arenas, in his second game after undergoing left knee surgery last April, played 17 minutes and had six points. He played 21 minutes and had nine points in his first game on Tuesday.
Brendan Haywood had 10 first-quarter points, but didn't play again.
Kelenna Azubuike scored 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-106-10/11/07
Kelenna Azubuike scored 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-106 on Thursday night, completing a sweep of the teams' two-game exhibition series.
Marco Belinelli had 18 points, Mickael Pietrus added 17 and Troy Hudson 16 for Golden State, which beat Los Angeles 111-110 on Tuesday night.
Derek Fisher and Vladimir Radmanovic had 12 points apiece for the Lakers, and Andrew Bynum, Chris Mihm and Kobe Bryant added 11 each.
The Warriors outscored the Lakers in each quarter and looked like the offense that was second in the league with an average of 106.5 points per game last season.
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