Gerald Wallace

Nick Young scored a season-high 35 points, John Wall added 29 points and nine assists, and the Washington Wizards beat the Portland Trail Blazers 124-109 Tuesday night for their second straight road win. Jordan Crawford added 21 points for Washington, which put together its best game of the season, shooting 60 percent from the field and 52 percent on 3-pointers. Young was 7 of 8 from behind the arc. Nicolas Batum tied a career high with 33 points for the Blazers (15-14), who lost All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge to an ankle injury early in the game.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest NBA player ever, is poised to become the owner of the worst team in league history. His embarrassingly bad Charlotte Bobcats have one last shot to avoid the title. Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale, the Bobcats are teetering on the verge of the worst winning percentage (.106) ever and could clinch the dubious distinction with a loss at home to the New York Knicks in the lockout-shortened season. Charlotte is a woeful 7-58 and its record-setting futility would eclipse the 39-year-old mark...

■When, where: Friday, 7:30, TD Garden. ■TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850, 93.7). ■Scoring: LaMarcus Aldridge 21.6, Jamal Crawford 14.3, Nicolas Batum 14.2. ■Rebounds: Marcus Camby 9.2, Aldridge 8.2, Gerald Wallace 6.5. ■Assists: Raymond Felton 6.3, Crawford 3.8, Wallace 2.9. ■Head to head: This is the first and only meeting. ■Miscellany: The Trail Blazers are 24th in the NBA in rebounds, averaging 41.5 per game . . . Portland has dropped five of its last seven and hasn't won consecutive games since Jan. 23-24 . . . This is the second game of a seven game road trip...

■When, where: Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Prudential Center, Newark. ■TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850, 93.7). ■Scoring: Deron Williams 21.1, Gerald Wallace 14.8, Kris Humphries 13.8. ■Rebounding: Humphries 11.0, Wallace 6.7, Shelden Williams 6.1. ■Assists: D. Williams 8.7, Jordan Farmar 3.3, Wallace 3.1. ■Head to head: This is the third and final meeting. The Celtics won the first two. ■Miscellany: Deron Williams is the only player in the NBA averaging more than 20 points and more than 8 assists . . . The Nets are second in the NBA with 472 3-pointers made . . . Wallace (hamstring)

Gerald Green tied the score with a thundering one-handed dunk from the baseline, then added a go-ahead basket moments later and the New Jersey Nets rallied from 19 points down in the second half to beat the Golden State Warriors 102-100 on Friday night. Gerald Wallace had 24 points and 18 rebounds for the Nets, who ended a six-year losing streak at Oracle Arena. Wallace scored 10 points over the final 6 minutes of the game and blocked Charles Jenkins' potential tying shot just before time ran out. Kris Humphries added 20 points and nine rebounds while Deron Williams had nine points and...

Rich Cho is a big proponent in accumulating assets, and hopes to do the same thing as he tries to make the Charlotte Bobcats a winner. The Bobcats introduced Cho on Tuesday in a front-office shakeup by Michael Jordan just over a week before the draft. Cho takes over from Rod Higgins as general manager, who was promoted to director of basketball operations. The 45-year-old Cho was fired last month after less than a year on the job as GM of the Portland Trail Blazers. Oddly, Cho was on the other side of the much-scrutinized February trade that sent Charlotte’s only All-Star,...

■When, where: Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Prudential Center, Newark. ■TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850, 93.7). ■Scoring: Deron Williams 21.1, Gerald Wallace 14.8, Kris Humphries 13.8. ■Rebounding: Humphries 11.0, Wallace 6.7, Shelden Williams 6.1. ■Assists: D. Williams 8.7, Jordan Farmar 3.3, Wallace 3.1. ■Head to head: This is the third and final meeting. The Celtics won the first two. ■Miscellany: Deron Williams is the only player in the NBA averaging more than 20 points and more than 8 assists . . . The Nets are second in the NBA with 472 3-pointers made . ....

It wasn’t the same at all. The Charlotte Bobcats, more or less, were made of the same pieces - a Hall of Fame coach in Larry Brown, a relentless scorer in Gerald Wallace, and a pair of talented point guards in Raymond Felton and D.J. Augustin. But last night they weren’t the same team that took the Celtics to overtime twice last season. It was Augustin who said of the Celtics after the Bobcats stunned them last January, “If you don’t back down to them, they fold.’’ But on a night when the Celtics opened up the Garden for a campaign that’s been labeled by coaches and players as championship or...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest NBA player ever, is poised to become the owner of the worst team in league history. His embarrassingly bad Charlotte Bobcats have one last shot to avoid the title. Heading into Thursday night's regular-season finale, the Bobcats are teetering on the verge of the worst winning percentage (.106) ever and could clinch the dubious distinction with a loss at home to the New York Knicks in the lockout-shortened season. Charlotte is a woeful 7-58 and its record-setting futility would...

LeBron James hit the first game-winning shot of his career with 0.9 seconds left in overtime, finishing with 37 points and his ninth career triple-double in the Cavaliers' 120-118 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats last night in Cleveland. James also had 12 assists and 11 rebounds as Cleveland beat the undermanned Bobcats and moved closer to securing its first playoff berth since 1998. Raymond Felton scored 30 points to lead six players in double figures for Charlotte, which was without leading scorer Gerald Wallace and starting point guard Brevin Knight.

Gerald Green tied the score with a thundering one-handed dunk from the baseline, then added a go-ahead basket moments later and the New Jersey Nets rallied from 19 points down in the second half to beat the Golden State Warriors 102-100 on Friday night. Gerald Wallace had 24 points and 18 rebounds for the Nets, who ended a six-year losing streak at Oracle Arena. Wallace scored 10 points over the final 6 minutes of the game and blocked Charles Jenkins' potential tying shot just before time ran out. Kris Humphries added 20 points and nine rebounds while Deron Williams had nine points and...

■When, where: Friday, 7:30, TD Garden. ■TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850, 93.7). ■Scoring: LaMarcus Aldridge 21.6, Jamal Crawford 14.3, Nicolas Batum 14.2. ■Rebounds: Marcus Camby 9.2, Aldridge 8.2, Gerald Wallace 6.5. ■Assists: Raymond Felton 6.3, Crawford 3.8, Wallace 2.9. ■Head to head: This is the first and only meeting. ■Miscellany: The Trail Blazers are 24th in the NBA in rebounds, averaging 41.5 per game . . . Portland has dropped five of its last seven and hasn't won consecutive games since Jan. 23-24 . . . This is the second game of a seven game road trip...

Nick Young scored a season-high 35 points, John Wall added 29 points and nine assists, and the Washington Wizards beat the Portland Trail Blazers 124-109 Tuesday night for their second straight road win. Jordan Crawford added 21 points for Washington, which put together its best game of the season, shooting 60 percent from the field and 52 percent on 3-pointers. Young was 7 of 8 from behind the arc. Nicolas Batum tied a career high with 33 points for the Blazers (15-14), who lost All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge to an ankle injury early in the game.

Jamal Crawford scored a season-high 26 points and the Portland Trail Blazers returned home from a six-game road trip with a 101-89 win over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Gerald Wallace had 20 points and eight rebounds and LaMarcus Aldridge added 13 points and 16 rebounds for the Blazers, who were coming off a 2-4 trip. Portland improved to 7-1 at the Rose Garden, playing there for the first time since Jan. 11. DeMarcus Cousins had 18 points and 13 rebounds, his 12th double-double of the season, for the Kings.

Rich Cho is a big proponent in accumulating assets, and hopes to do the same thing as he tries to make the Charlotte Bobcats a winner. The Bobcats introduced Cho on Tuesday in a front-office shakeup by Michael Jordan just over a week before the draft. Cho takes over from Rod Higgins as general manager, who was promoted to director of basketball operations. The 45-year-old Cho was fired last month after less than a year on the job as GM of the Portland Trail Blazers. Oddly, Cho was on the other side of the much-scrutinized February trade that sent Charlotte’s only...