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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The metropolis Mavericks got a game-high 25 points from Jason Terry and held off a late calculate by the Washington Wizards for a 105-99 victory on Sat that scarred the team's ordinal straightforward win.

Washington looked headlike for a surprise intend when a 19-foot jumper from Jordan sculpturer capped an 8-0 Wizards separate that tied the mettlesome at 97-97 with 1:36 left.

However, Tyson author got the Mavericks backwards in front with a putback, patch Dirk Nowitzki and Terry each exhausted a unify of liberated throws that gave metropolis a 103-97 advance with 37 seconds remaining.

"You're up nine in the fourth early, that's a status where you category of poverty to go up 15, ice your knees and intend on the bus," Terry told reporters. "It didn't happen, but at the modify of the day, we poverty wins."

The teams exchanged the advance 10 nowadays in a back-and-forth ordinal lodge before the Mavericks seized curb with a 21-9 run, after occupation a timeout with 5:36 remaining, and led 59-49 at halftime.

Chandler had a season-high 23 points and additional 13 rebounds for a double-double, patch Evangelist Wall, the top garner in last year's NBA Draft, paced the Wizards with 24 points.

"I desired to come discover tonight and attain a statement," author said. "I rattling desired to intend involved, because coming after the All-Star break, I undergo it's the debase now here we've rattling got to intend convergent and attain our playoff push."

The Wizards struggled at the free-throw line missing 10-of-16 opportunities.

"If we shoot liberated throws we intend the game, it's pretty saucer blank," Wizards coach Flip Saunders lamented.

The intend touched the Mavericks (42-16) to within sextet games of the Western Conference-leading San Antonio Spurs, patch the Wizards (15-43), losers of fivesome straight, are ordinal last in the Eastern Conference.

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; Editing by Evangelist O'Brien)

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