chauncey billups.is size advantage and the wizards get the performance they had in the last two meetings? coming up steve will have the opening lineup and the tipoff here on comcast sportsnet. ice ! ? caveumbe ice sli nuwo, hingt bratd, scuse icer 2: samer n: ae gre waon t the tim tellikt i'm suryeulls cavee's iddiwea sepini p fromile ity, gorgay ind. aturn th 0s, 's bful venia . condnd inam with these teams after the wizards got that stunning victory back on february 19th. washington will start. shaun livingston for the sect straight game with miller and blatche. the wizards are 22-4. they have dropped eight games, that's a season long losing streak. his team last night in salt lake city played the utah jazz to a 25-25 tie after one quarter, and then the rest of the game was downhill and then the nuggets or rather the jazz won easily. the nuggets had a six-game win streak, but it was snapped last night in houston. chauncey billups, johan, carmelo, and nene starting for denver. as you know, george karl

they will call chauncey billups for a foul. number three on chauncey.y, alonzo gee was all over j.r. smith here. almost knocked the ball away. >> phil: yeah, he can make some of the difficult shots. >> steve: 4:45 to play in regulation, and melo hounding thornton, and i believe he is called for the foul. now they will get between anthony and al thornton. they saw each other four times a year for the three previous years with thornton playing for the clippers. number 3 on carmelo who has gotten 22 points and 9 rebounds. >> phil: going at it again. >> steve: a lot of dribbling, on the arm. and the foul is called on carmelo. that will be his fourth personal. >> phil: now both he and thornton have four personal fouls as both of them want to be more careful in terms of wanting to develop the physical style of play. >> steve: boykins to the line for the first time tonight. the wizards are 10 of 20 from the free-throw line. really unfortunate free-throw shooting night for this team. denver has made 17 of 21. boykins gets the first. wizards trying to sweep this