Wizards fall to 0-5; start is team's worst since '66

Washington booed at home in Nuggets' 118-92 rout; 32 for Anthony

From wire reports

November 10, 2007

The Denver Nuggets were able to miss three alley-oops in one quarter and still run away from the Washington Wizards, who haven't been this bad at the start of the season since the days of the Baltimore Bullets.

Carmelo Anthony (Towson Catholic) scored 12 consecutive Nuggets points in a third quarter in which the home team was booed off the court, leading Denver to a 118-92 victory that snapped a three-game losing streak.

Anthony finished with 32 points, and Marcus Camby had 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.

The Wizards fell to 0-5 for the first time since 1966, when their home was in Baltimore. Coach Eddie Jordan watched his team miss seven of 10 shots, commit 12 turnovers and get outscored 33-11 in the quarter.

"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."

• Rockets 104, Bucks 88 // Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian each had their share of highlights in the much-anticipated first matchup of the country's greatest player and its top rising star, and Yao and Houston beat Yi and Milwaukee. Yao had 28 points, 10 rebounds and three assists. Yi had 19 points and nine rebounds. The game was an enormous event in China, where it started early Saturday morning. It was being broadcast on 19 television networks and NBA officials were expecting the largest-ever viewing audience for a game, well over 200 million.

• Trail Blazers 110, Grizzlies 98 // LaMarcus Aldridge had 30 points and 10 rebounds, Brandon Roy had 22 points and eight assists and host Portland beat Memphis. Rudy Gay led the Grizzlies with 31 points. Pau Gasol had all of his 19 in the first half. Jarrett Jack had 17 of his 22 points in the second half for Portland, which has won two in a row at home after an 0-3 road trip to open the season. Kyle Lowry had 14 points for Memphis, Darko Milicic had 10 rebounds and Mike Miller had nine points and seven rebounds.

• Magic 112, Knicks 102 // Dwight Howard had 22 points and 20 rebounds, Jameer Nelson added 24 points and 10 assists, and Orlando completed a perfect four-game road trip with a victory over New York.

• Celtics 106, Hawks 83 // Kevin Garnett had 27 points and 19 rebounds, Paul Pierce scored 23 and Boston beat visiting Atlanta, its third blowout win of a season in which it's off to its best start in 20 years.

• Suns 106, Heat 101 // Steve Nash scored 11 straight points in the fourth quarter and finished with 30 to go with eight assists, and Phoenix's win added to host Miami's season-opening misery. Leandro Barbosa finished with 17 points, Raja Bell scored 16, and Shawn Marion added 17 points and 24 rebounds for Phoenix.

• Raptors 105, 76ers 103 // Chris Bosh made 16 of 18 free throws and scored 24 points along with 10 rebounds to help visiting Toronto snap a three-game losing streak with a victory over Philadelphia.

• Pistons 103, Clippers 79 // Chauncey Billups scored 23 points and Antonio McDyess added 14 to help host Detroit hand Los Angeles its first loss. Billups made five three-pointers in the second half in a victory that left Boston as the NBA's lone unbeaten team.

• Bobcats 96, Pacers 87 // Emeka Okafor had 25 points and 23 rebounds, Gerald Wallace scored 26 points and host Charlotte rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Indiana.

• Spurs 97, Hornets 85 // Tony Parker scored early, often and from all over the court, finishing with 27 points as San Antonio beat New Orleans. Tim Duncan had 24 points and 12 rebounds for San Antonio.

Thursday's late game

• Mavericks 120, Warriors 115 // Dirk Nowitzki scored eight of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, Jerry Stackhouse hit a three-pointer with 37 seconds left and Dallas got a bit of hollow revenge from its historic playoff defeat with a victory over winless Golden State.

Off the court

• Knicks // Reserve center Jerome James will have a cyst and a small bone spur removed from the top of his right foot and will be out indefinitely. James, 7 feet 1, has been a huge disappointment since signing a five-year, $30 million contract in the summer of 2005.

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