Healthy Wizards end Cavaliers’ streak
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WASHINGTON — For the first time all season, the Washington Wizards fielded a starting lineup resembling the one they envisioned when training camp opened last fall.
The result: 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 Thursday night.
Arenas, playing his second game of the season, had 11 points on three-for-11 shooting and 10 assists and six rebounds in 33 minutes.
“It’s just a confidence-booster to let us know that we’re still there,” Arenas said, “and we just need to be healthy.”
James scored 22 of his 31 points in the second half and had six assists and nine rebounds.
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