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DeMar DeRozan scored 32 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Washington Wizards, 108-98, on Wednesday night in Game 5 of the first-round series.

John Wall had a hand in 10 of Washington's final 14 points and finished with 27 points and 14 assists as the Wizards tied their NBA Eastern Conference quarterfinal series at 2-all.

A win would have pulled the Wizards up to seventh place and a first-round playoff series against the injury-marred Boston Celtics. Instead, they will play the Toronto Raptors in the opening round.

Digest: Wizards suffer second-worst loss in franchise history, 116-69 to Jazz

John Wall scored a playoff career-high 32 points and Markieff Morris added 21 in his NBA playoff debut as the Washington Wizards beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-107.

Digest: Wizards' Ian Mahinmi to miss start of postseason

Otto Porter Jr. made six 3-pointers, finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, and the Washington Wizards won their fourth straight, a 111-98 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.

Otto Porter Jr. had 21 points and 11 rebounds, John Wall scored 19 and the visiting Wizards moved within a half-game of the Southeast Division lead with a 112-86 victory over the Hawks on Friday night.

Hannah Fenske scored the go-ahead basket on a jumper with 29 seconds left and added two free throws in the final second to lift visiting Navy (8-5, 1-1 Patriot League) to a 62-59 victory over Boston University (4-9, 2-0).

With his goal in overtime, Johansson lifted the Capitals to a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres, ending the team's three-game losing streak.

The Washington Wizards came close to ending a staggering run of futility in San Antonio, but Kawhi Leonard made certain the stretch would continue.

As the Wizards held off Sacramento, 101-95, in overtime, Beal scored 31 points and reached career-high figures with seven 3-pointers on 13 attempts.

Lamont Brown III had 13 carries for 113 yards and two rushing touchdowns to lead Morgan State to a 35-24 victory over host Savannah State in its season finale Saturday.

The Washington Wizards will start the season without their backup center and highest-paid free agent acquisition, Ian Mahinmi. On Saturday, the team announced that the center underwent surgery Friday night for a partially torn medial meniscus in his left knee.

Kelly Oubre scored 24 points as the visiting Washington Wizards outlasted the Philadelphia 76ers, 125-119, for their first preseason victory under coach Scott Brooks.

Baltimore product Will Barton is having a breakout season for the Denver Nuggets, and the ties that bind him to his hometown are as strong as ever.

The Washington Wizards make a statement, leading from wire to wire in a 104-96 win over the red-hot Los Angeles Clippers

The expectations have been raised, perhaps higher than they've been in a decade. The roster has been bolstered, with the additions of aging superstar Paul Pierce and blue-collar power forward DeJuan Blair. Are the Washington Wizards for real, or was last season just a nasty tease for the team's long-suffering fans?

Wes Unseld has never been one to seek the spotlight. Yet there he was on Thursday, surrounded by media, NBA players past and present and several hundred youngsters who packed the gym at the Unseld School in West Baltimore for the promotion of a Washington Wizards preseason basketball game to be played in Baltimore on Oct. 20.

Tommy Hunter blew his third save of the season for the Orioles last night.

Paul George scored a game-high 39 points, 28 in the second half, to help the Pacers take a 3-1 lead in this best-of-seven series.

Bradley Beal scored a game-high 25 points and Trevor Ariza had 22 as the Wizards won their fourth straight road game in the playoffs and took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Marcin Gortat knew he wasn't going to be in Phoenix long the moment the rebuilding Suns drafted former Maryland center Alex Len fifth overall in June, but that didn't make any less startling the news he had been traded to the Washington Wizards.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

If the top of the NBA draft Thursday was a surprise, the fifth pick was a bit of a relief for former Maryland center Alex Len.