Basketball Daily

Gilbert “Agent Zero” Arenas returned to the lineup for the Washington Wizards in only his second appearance on the year against one of their biggest rivals the Cleveland Cavaliers.  While Arenas is still very rusty, he helped guide his team to victory with 11 points, and he dished the ball quite well to his teammates with 10 assists.  The Cavaliers who haven’t lost many games this year, now drop even with the Lakers for the best record in the NBA.  The final score was 109-101.

The leading scorers for the Wizards were Caron Butler with 25 points, Antawn Jamison with 19 points and Darius Songalia with 17 points.  Washington has had such a disappointing year due to all of the injuries suffered from key players this season.  Hopefully they can finish the season out on a positive note and gear up for next year.

On Friday night, the Denver Nuggets took it to the worst team in the East, the Washington Wizards.  It was a pure cremation game with no chance for the Wizards to even make a run.  After the first quarter, the rest of the ballgame was a double digit lead for the visiting Nuggets.  Chris “Birdman” Andersen excelled with energy and poise throwing down dunks and blocking multiple shots.  The game wasn’t even close and ended with a final score of 124-103.

The Nuggets team had 7 players in double figures which showed great distribution of the rock.  The top three scorers were Carmelo Anthony with 23 points, Dahntay Jones with 18 points and Chauncey Billups with 16 points.  Even Sonny Weems got to play in the fourth quarter during garbage time and put up 4 points in 7 minutes of playing time.  Denver is looking really good this year and they are hoping they can make it out of the first round of the Playoffs this season.

On Saturday, January 31st, the Washington Wizards got only their 10th win of the season playing the visiting Los Angeles Clippers.  The Wizards stole the ball quite frequently and forced the Clippers to have 25 whopping turnovers.  The final score of the game was 106-94.

Washington had four players in double figures including Antawn Jamison with 25 points, Nick Young with 22 points, Javale McGee with 18 points and Caron Butler with 16 points.  The team as a whole shot 42% and an impressive 54% from three point territory.  Over 18,000 fans were in attendance at the Verizon Center and they were glad to see their struggling team get a win finally.  The Wizards have only won 7 games at home this season so far, and their overall record is 10 wins and 37 losses.