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DENVER -- Ty Lawson seemingly couldnt miss in the second half, until John Wall made him miss at the end. Cheap Jerseys Paypal . Bradley Beal scored 23 points, Wall blocked Lawsons attempt for a tying layup in the final seconds, and the Washington Wizards hung on to beat the Denver Nuggets 112-108 on Friday night to snap an eight-game road losing streak. Wall saw Lawson drive past Martell Webster and left his man to come over and smother his shot before he could put it up. "I came on the weakside help. Just reaction," Wall said. "It is hard to stop a fast guard like that from getting to the lane. Hed done a great job of making 3s and getting to the free-throw line. Martell kind of slipped and basically he had an easy layup to tie the game. I wanted to go over there and make a play." Lawson said if he had it to do over again, he would have pulled up to take the short jumper rather than pressing ahead with his drive to the basket. "I feel like I should have stepped back and got a shot off," Lawson said. "It was kind of tough. Next time, Ill do better." Until then, Lawson had been virtually unstoppable in the second half. He scored 27 of his 29 points in the final two quarters to lead the Nuggets, who lost at home for just the third time in 18 games. Lawson had made 10 consecutive shots from the floor before Wall rejected his layup in the final moments. "That was a great defensive play by John," Beal said. "We didnt want to foul. There was a little bit of contact and we were grateful the ref didnt call a foul. It was a great play by John and then he knocked down the free throws." Kevin Seraphin added 18 points and Wall and Trevor Ariza each added 14 points for the Wizards, who picked up just their second win away from home this season. They entered a league-worst 1-16 on the road. Wall also had 12 assists. Nene had seven points for Washington in his return to Denver, where he played for nearly 10 years before being sent to Washington last March as part of a three-team trade. Corey Brewer and Andre Miller each added 17 points for the Nuggets, whose home winning streak ended at five games. Beal hit a 3-pointer to tie it at 58 with 8:07 left in the third quarter, but Lawson began finding the range, scoring 10 straight points for the Nuggets, including a pair of 3-pointers, to help Denver go in front 68-64. Lawson made all eight of his third-quarter shots from the floor, including four 3-pointers. He finished his torrid quarter with a breakaway dunk, and Denver took an 87-80 lead into the final period. Washington, though, opened the fourth with a big run of its own, scoring 12 unanswered points, including 3-pointers Ariza and Jordan Crawford and went in front 92-87 with 9:36 left to play. "We let them get hot," Lawson said. "When a team comes into your building and gets confidence like that, it is hard to stop them." The Nuggets closed to 100-97 on successive baskets by Miller and Lawson with 3:46 remaining. A putback by Seraphin put the Wizards up 108-104 with 28.9 seconds remaining. Miller answered with a layup, was fouled but couldnt convert the free throw. Crawford was fouled by Kosta Koufos and made one of two free throws for a three-point Washington edge with 21.6 seconds left and Miller then scored on a layup with 13.6 seconds remaining. The Nuggets fouled Beal with 8.6 seconds and he made one of two free throws for a 110-108 lead. Lawson drove the lane but his attempt for a tying layup in the final seconds was blocked by Wall, who added a pair of free throws with 2.7 seconds left to seal the victory. JaVale McGee, who was acquired as part of the trade that sent Nene to Washington, followed a one-handed dunk off an alley-oop from Brewer with a putback dunk in the last 33.3 seconds of the second quarter, giving the Nuggets a 50-45 halftime lead. NOTES: Washingtons Crawford was back in action after missing four games because of a sore left ankle. He came off the bench and had eight points in just over 17 minutes of play. ... Nuggets had won 24 in a row at the Pepsi Center when scoring 100 or more points before losing to the Wizards. Cheap NFL Jerseys . -- Canadians brought home a ton of medals at the Dew Cup on Friday. Cheap NFL Jerseys China . Milicic received the amnesty designation Thursday, a one-time provision allowing a team to let a player go without his remaining contract counting against the leagues salary cap or luxury tax. http://www.bwjerseys.com/ . - If the Phoenix Coyotes make a playoff run, they will need the scoring of winger Radim Vrbata. Cheap Jerseys From China . 22, 2012. The selection was made by a committee comprised of members of Football Reporters of Canada (FRC). Clark, a fifth-year arts student from Whalley, B.C., was honoured on offence following a personal-best performance in a wild 51-38 home win against Alberta, Saturday in Winnipeg. Cheap Jerseys Wholesale . James Andrews following inflammation that landed him on the disabled list in August. An MRI showed a bone spur in the left elbow and the Yankees believe it has existed since he pitched for the Cleveland Indians from 2001-08. OKLAHOMA CITY -- National player of the year Anthony Davis isnt giving away whether he and four teammates from national champion Kentucky will declare for the NBA draft at a news conference Tuesday. But with the possibility that all of his starters could leave college early, coach John Calipari said: "My guess is well need a new batch." Kentucky announced Monday that Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Marquis Teague, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb will make their intentions known at a news conference in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday. Davis was in Oklahoma City on Monday night to pick up the Wayman Tisdale Award as the nations top freshman. The 6-foot-10 power forward also won The Associated Press, Naismith and Wooden awards for national player of the year and is considered the likely No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft this June -- if he decides to enter. "Youve got to wait. Its only a day away, a couple hours," Davis told reporters before the ceremony. "Were doing it as a team. We thought it would be great to do it as a team to show how much we like each other and how much of a team we are and how we did it to win a national championship." Theres little more that Davis could accomplish basketball-wise by sticking around for another season with the Wildcats, other than duplicating his performance in leading Kentucky to its eighth national championship. "You couldnt really ask for much more. It was every college players dream to come in and win a national championship, player of the year, freshman of the year and everything," he said. "Im just grateful and thankful to my parents, my coaching staff, my teammates, everyone who helped me out to get to this point." Davis said he had always hoped to be a Division I prospect, and that became a reality when he grew half a foot late in his high-sschool career to transform from a 6-3 guard into a shot-blocking interior presence. Cheap Jerseys China. . He hadnt envisioned himself with the possibility of being a candidate to enter the draft this early. "I never actually thought about it like that," Davis said. "I just always went out there and played basketball. I always played for my team. I always deferred to my team because its a team sport. No one player can win the game by himself. "I never even thought about, OK, I can leave early if I keep playing this well." And now, he could go from unwanted high school player to the first player taken in the draft in just a couple years. "Itd be crazy. Like I said, I never expected any of this to happen," Davis said. "If that happens to happen, it would be a great opportunity." Davis said hes sure Calipari "would love it if the whole team would stay." That doesnt mean hell get his wish. "We thought it would be nice -- cool -- to do it together," he said. Calipari has already started bringing in his next crop of top talent, including highly regarded prospect Nerlens Noel only a few days ago, in hopes of turning another young group into big-time winners. "Its really unusual but what happens is they were all raised right," Calipari said. "In the recruiting process, none of them were promised minutes and starting positions and shots. ... None of these kids were recruited that way, so now they come in with an idea theyre going to earn it and theyre going to do this together and if they do it together, theyve got a chance. Then you start the coaching process." Calipari said hes glad to see the whole starting lineup make Tuesdays announcement together because "it shows it wasnt fake, it was real." "Its good stuff," he said. ' ' '
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