Wizards

■When, where: Tonight, 6, at Verizon Center, Washington. ■TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850, 93.7). ■Scoring: Nick Young 18.5, John Wall 16.5, JaVale McGee 13.0. ■Rebounds: McGee 9.0, Andray Blatche 7.0, Wall 5.0. ■Assists: Wall 5.5, Young 2.0, Blatche 2.0, Ronny Turiaf 2.0. ■Head to head: This is the first of four meetings. ■Miscellany: Young led the Wizards last season with a career-high 17.4 points per game . . . Swingman Maurice Evans is sidelined with a sore right knee . . . Starting guards Young and Wall combined to go 2 for 19 in a loss to the Bucks Friday night.

Playing without their Big Three, the Miami Heat suffered their worst defeat of 2011-2012 with a 104-70 loss to the Washington Wizards in the regular-season finale Thursday night. With their first playoff game just two days away, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra rested LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh for the second straight game. The Heat are locked into the Eastern Conference's second playoff spot and open the postseason Saturday against the New York Knicks. Mo Evans had a season-high 18 points, Nene and Kevin Seraphin each scored 15, and John Wall had seven points and 12 assists...

When "We Are Wizards" hit the festival circuit last year, it was well-liked but sometimes criticized for offering too rambling a tour of the Harry Potter fan subculture. Maybe so. But the documentary sweetly focuses our attention on the way human creativity transforms everything around it. Often in the nuttiest of ways, true. But still, it's a good thing. Most prominent here are the Wizard Rock bands, including Boston's own Harry and the Potters and Rhode Island's Draco and the Malfoys, both of whom draw rooms full of teenage girls with their funny lo-fi rock about Hogwarts crushes and rivalries.

John Wall had 21 points and 13 assists as the Washington Wizards won their fifth straight to extend their longest winning streak since 2007, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 96-85 on Wednesday night. Wall had 12 points, six assists and four steals in the third quarter, when he accounted for 24 of Washington's 28 points and helped the Wizards open a 14-point lead. Wall added seven rebounds and seven steals. While Washington's star guard put on a show, Cleveland's watched. Kyrie Irving, expected to be named the NBA's rookie of the year next month, played only 10 minutes — all in the...

It’s as if Kevin Garnett is on a revenge tour, going around the NBA and checking off the names of anybody who dunked on him, doubted, or trash-talked the Celtics forward last season when he was coming back from knee surgery. And after the battles they had last spring, Washington’s Andray Blatche, of course, was on the list. Garnett got in Blatche’s head during a close victory in March, using a lip-to-cheek maneuver to derail the Wizards forward’s 23-point night. But when they met a month later, Blatche was tougher — putting up 31 points and 11 rebounds in a Wizards victory that sent a message to...

CARSON, Calif. - The Kansas City Wizards advanced to the Western Conference final by holding Chivas USA to a scoreless draw last night. The Wizards beat Chivas, 1-0, in Kansas City a week ago and claimed the aggregate-goals series with their lone goal. Kansas City will visit the Houston Dynamo Saturday. Chivas USA finished first in the Western Conference but could not overcome the absence of second-leading scorer Ante Razov. Razov sprained ligaments in his left knee Oct. 11 and Chivas scored one goal in five games since.

WASHINGTON - The Wizards seem to be the only NBA team that has the Celtics' number this season. The Celtics ended a seven-game winning streak with a 109-95 loss to Washington last night at a sold-out Verizon Center. Boston (62-16) lost the season series, 3-1, to Washington (41-37). The Wizards' three wins over Boston were by an average of 13 points. "They've played great against us, there has been no doubt about it," said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. "Obviously, if we face them in the playoffs, they should have great confidence.

The team leading the league in losses beat the team leading the league in wins. In the closest thing they'll have to a playoff game this year, Gilbert Arenas and the Wizards recovered after blowing a 14-point second-half lead and ended the franchise-record 13-game winning streak of LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers with a 109-101 victory last night in Washington. Arenas, playing his second game of the season in his latest attempt to return from knee surgery, had 11 points, 10 assists, and 6 rebounds.

John Wall had 16 points and 14 assists, Nene scored 18 points and Jan Vesely had 16 points on 8-for-8 shooting and the Washington Wizards handed the Charlotte Bobcats their 21st straight loss, 101-73 on Monday night. It gave the Wizards their first four-game winning streak since Dec. 9-13, 2007. The 28-point margin of victory equaled their largest in the season. The Bobcats were competitive for most of the first quarter until Charlotte's Tyrus Thomas was ejected with 3.6 seconds left for throwing an elbow at Washington's James Singleton.

With the playoffs a week away, Dwyane Wade left the Miami Heat arena Saturday night with his swollen finger in a splint — and considered himself lucky. Wade played less than 3 minutes before dislocating his left index finger but avoided serious injury as the Heat lost 86-84 to the woeful Washington Wizards. A doctor reset Wade's finger, and X-rays were negative. "I'm not going to cry about it," he said. "When I was sitting on the table before they could put it back in, the worst-case scenario was surgery, and the best-case scenario was this.

Jordan Crawford equaled a season-high with 32 points, and John Wall had 14 points and 10 assists Wednesday night as the Washington Wizards dealt the Milwaukee Bucks a crucial 121-112 defeat in their attempt for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Milwaukee began the day 1 ½ games behind Philadelphia for eighth place in the East, but lost a game as the Sixers won in Cleveland. The Bucks had the previous three days off while the Sixers were completing their third game in three nights.

Kevin Seraphin had 21 points and 13 rebounds, John Wall scored 16 points, and the Washington Wizards beat the short-handed Chicago Bulls 87-84 on Monday night. Richard Hamilton scored 22 points to lead the Bulls, who played without stars Derrick Rose and Luol Deng. Rose was out with a sore right foot as he missed his 24th game of the season, and Deng sat out due to sore right ribs. After two straight games of clutch 3-pointers in the finals seconds to force overtime in wins against Miami and Detroit, the Bulls missed a third chance when Hamilton's 3-pointer...

Kevin Seraphin took advantage of Dwight Howard's absence from Orlando's lineup, getting career highs of 24 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Washington Wizards to a 93-85 victory over the Magic on Tuesday night. Jordan Crawford scored 21 points, John Wall had 15 and Cartier Martin and James Singleton — both on 10-day contracts with the Wizards — added 12 points apiece. Seraphin also matched a career high with four blocks. Jameer Nelson scored 19 points and J.J. Redick added 15 for the Magic, who shot 36.6 percent from the field.

Jordan Crawford scored 20 points and Washington got 67 points from their reserves as the Wizards hammered the Charlotte Bobcats 113-85 Monday night in a matchup of the NBA's two worst teams. James Singleton had 18 points and 12 rebounds and Cartier Martin chipped in with 19 points as the Wizards (13-44) swept the three-game season series from the Bobcats. John Wall scored just two points but had 12 assists. Corey Maggette scored 23 points for the Bobcats (7-48), who lost their 12th straight.

Greg Monroe had 18 points and seven rebounds, Rodney Stuckey scored 15 points in his return from injury, and Ben Wallace made five key free throws down the stretch as the Detroit Pistons beat the Washington Wizards 99-94 Thursday night. Even with Monroe playing well, Pistons coach Lawrence Frank went with the 37-year-old Wallace down the stretch to help stop John Wall's penetration. The Wizards were missing Nene and Trevor Booker with foot injuries, but rallied from a 20-point deficit to pull within five late in the game.

Danny Granger scored 20 points, and the Indiana Pacers won their third straight Wednesday night by shooting a season-high 58 percent in a 109-96 victory over the Washington Wizards. Darren Collison added 17 points and 11 assists, Tyler Hansbrough and Leandro Barbosa scored 14 points apiece, and Roy Hibbert had 13 points for the Pacers, who have won eight of 11 to move into third place in the Eastern Conference. The Pacers were hot in the first quarter (87 percent from the field)