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Offense cripples Wizards
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SAN ANTONIO | Two road games, two dysfunctional performances and another new low for the Washington Wizards. A night after getting run out of the gym by the Oklahoma City Thunder because of a sorry excuse for a defensive showing, the Wizards rode into San Antonio on Saturday and...
Wizards' offense goes cold in loss to Spurs
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SAN ANTONIO | Two road games, two dysfunctional performances and another new low for the Washington Wizards. A night after getting run out of the gym by the Oklahoma City Thunder because of a sorry excuse for a defensive showing, the Wizards rode into San Antonio and actually did...
Wizards Plus: Saunders stresses rest
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SEEN AND HEARD AT FORD CENTER OKLAHOMA CITY - Always looking for ways to get more out of his players, Wizards coach Flip Saunders canceled the morning shootaround for the second straight game to allow his team to get extra rest. Instead of the traditional midmorning shootaround,...
Wizards run hot and cold in defeat
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OKLAHOMA CITY | The Washington Wizards may have all their pieces back after an injury-plagued first two weeks of the season, but they're far from a well-oiled machine. And Friday night, tipping off a two-game road trip, the Wizards put on a sputtering performance and fell 127...
Thunder roll past Wizards
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OKLAHOMA CITY | The Washington Wizards may have all their pieces back after an injury-plagued first two weeks of the season, but they're far from a well-oiled machine. And Friday night, tipping off a two-game road trip, the Wizards put on a sputtering performance and fell 127...
Wizards hope win carries momentum
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No one in the Washington Wizards' locker room is calling Wednesday's 108-91 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers a signature win. The team is simply hoping the performance, which snapped a six-game losing streak and marked the season debut of forward Antawn Jamison, can serve...
First Down: Surprising NBA storylines
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THURSDAY'S BEST BET ON TELEVISION Miami tries to stay in the playoff picture when it plays at Carolina. 8 p.m., NFL Network LOCAL POWER RANKINGS — WHO'S GENERATING BUZZ IN THE D.C. AREA? ALEX OVECHKIN The Moscow Dynamo looked in midseason form after a six-game absence...
Wizards Plus: Jamison's title focus
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SEEN AND HEARD AT VERIZON CENTER Washington Wizards power forward Antawn Jamison made his season debut Wednesday night with hopes of helping his team end its six-game losing streak and beginning what he hopes is a championship run. Before the start of the season, Jamison threw out...
Jamison's return helps Wizards stop skid
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After missing the first nine games of the season, Wizards forward Antawn Jamison didn't show the slightest trace of rust in his season debut against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night at Verizon Center. Instead, the two-time All-Star put his struggling...
Jamison's return helps Wizards beat Cavaliers
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A partially dislocated right shoulder forced Washington Wizards power forward Antawn Jamison to miss a month of action, which included the first nine games of the season. Jamison made season debut against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night at Verizon Center...
Wizards get Jamison, Foye back in lineup
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Directing his players at Tuesday's practice session - the first in more than a month with all his core players healthy - coach Flip Saunders had to feel relieved. Antawn Jamison, one of the cornerstones for the Washington Wizards, was back for the second straight day. Randy Foye...
Grizzlies terminate Iverson's contract
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. | The Allen Iverson experiment with the Memphis Grizzlies is over. Memphis announced Monday the team has ended its one-year contract with the 10-time All-Star and former league MVP in what it called a mutual agreement. Iverson began an indefinite leave of absence Nov...
Jamison expected to play Wednesday
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The Washington Wizards had a completely healthy Antawn Jamison back on the practice court for the first time in five weeks, and he is expected to make his season debut Wednesday when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town. The two-time All-Star power forward, who in the past two seasons...
First Down
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WEEKEND REWIND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Virginia Tech dominates Maryland -- Saturday's loss to the Hokies dropped the Terps to 2-8 on the year and set a up an alarming, if not likely, possibility. With games at Florida State and against Boston College, it's possible Maryland...
Arenas trying to have fun again
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He tried serious. Surly even. He declared Agent Zero dead and retired the Hibachi. Once the most media-accessible star in the NBA, Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas aimed to be so focused on basketball that he had to be forced by the NBA - in the form of a $25,000 fine - to...
Tom Knott: Drama queen role fit for King James
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Perhaps a Nike representative whispered into the ear of LeBron James and told him that all this talk of his impending free agency comes across as being disrespectful to his teammates and to the Cavaliers organization. Other than the Witnesses living in the Cleveland region, no one...
Wizards' slide reaches six
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It had the makings for a storybook ending. There was Washington Wizards shooting guard Mike Miller putting on a gutsy performance, although he probably shouldn't have been playing with a badly sprained left shoulder. There was 5-foot-5 Earl Boykins, who wasn't even in the...
Wizards Plus
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SEEN AND HEARD AT VERIZON CENTER Saturday's matchup between the Wizards and Pistons was reunion night for multiple reasons. First, it represented the first regular-season game Flip Saunders coached against Detroit since he guided the team to three straight Eastern Conference...
Outcome again dismal for feeble Terrapins
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Virginia Tech arrived at Byrd Stadium in all-white uniforms. Maryland countered with black jerseys and pants and played under a dreary gray sky. By the time it was over, the Terrapins were left feeling blue - again. The No. 20 Hokies put on a name-your-score performance, routing...
Wizards could receive partial fix
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The Washington Wizards, desperate to snap a five-game losing streak, anxiously looked to this weekend for what they anticipated would mark both the season debut of team captain Antawn Jamison and the return of starting shooting guard Mike Miller. Jamison and Miller - as well as backup...
Tom Knott: Injuries stink up the joint again
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Another loss, another compromised joint. That apparently is the lot of the Wizards, hurting both mentally and physically. The only break the Wizards have been able to catch is the one to the left hand of Mike James. Randy Foye is the latest member of the team to succumb to the injury...
Boykins feeling at home with Wizards
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It wasn't his first choice, but Earl Boykins wasn't about to let himself complain. When he didn't get the interest he wanted last year from NBA teams, he signed with Italian team Virtus Bologna for a contract reportedly worth more than $3.5 million, which made him the...
Wizards, Boykins agree to contract
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Down to one healthy point guard, the Washington Wizards signed 11th-year veteran Earl Boykins on Wednesday to back up Gilbert Arenas while the club waits for the healthy return of three other players at that position. "Earl is a proven veteran point guard who will provide us...
Tom Knott: Iverson always starts with an 'I'
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Anyone who paid attention to Allen Iverson's me-first carping with the Pistons last season should not be surprised that his stopover in Memphis soured in about a nanosecond. Iverson balked at coming off the bench with the Pistons, just as he is balking now with the Grizzlies...
Sloppy Arenas provides scare
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MIAMI | Gilbert Arenas gave the Washington Wizards a scare about an hour before Tuesday night's game against the Miami Heat. After running through pregame warmups, the guard and team trainers informed coach Flip Saunders that the sore right calf that had kept Arenas out of Monday...
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