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Gortat, Nash, Frye lead Suns over Wizards 104-88


Today's News-Herald
Published Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:06 AM MST

AP Sports Writer


PHOENIX — Marcin Gortat scored 20 points, Steve Nash had 12 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds in three quarters, and the Phoenix Suns beat Washington 104-88 on Monday night for their 10th straight win over the Wizards.

Phoenix, coming off a 102-90 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, won on consecutive nights for the first time this season. Washington hasn't beaten the Suns in six years.

Channing Frye added 19 points and 11 rebounds and Michael Redd scored 14 for the Suns, who topped 100 points against Washington for the 18th time in a row, the longest active streak of its kind in the NBA.

Jordan Crawford scored 20 points for the Wizards, who finished a five-game trip with three losses after winning the first two.

Trevor Booker added 16 for Washington. Nick Young, the Wizards' leading scorer at 17.5 points per game, shot just 3 of 13 for six points.

The Suns outscored Washington 31-6 after the Wizards took their only lead of the game early in the third quarter. Phoenix led by 24 entering the fourth.

The Wizards outscored the Suns 7-1 to start the second half to take a 55-54 lead on Trevor Booker's three-point play.

Phoenix scored on its next eight possessions, a 16-0 outburst that put the Suns up 70-55 on Nash's 8-footer with 3:53 left in the third quarter. Phoenix kept going from there, finishing the quarter with a 12-3 run to lead 85-60 entering the fourth. Redd had eight points in the surge, including a pair of 3-pointer. The second one came with 34.8 seconds left in the period. Overall, Phoenix outscored Washington 32-13 in the third.

The Suns never trailed in the first half but never got the lead to double digits, either.

They jumped out to a 19-10 lead but, when Phoenix had five reserves on the court, Washington rallied to tie it at 36 on Rashard Lewis' 9-foot runner with 6:17 left in the half.

The Phoenix starters returned and a 6-0 Suns spurt made it 42-36 when Grant Hill scored on a fast-break layup. Gortat's dunk on a pass from Nash, followed by one of two free throws from Frye, boosted the lead to 45-38 with 3:51 to go in the half. The Wizards cut it to 51-48 when Young made his first shot of the night, on his sixth attempt, a 12-footer with 37.8 seconds left.

Hill's two free throws made it 53-48 and John Wall was called for an offensive foul, against Markieff Morris, on Washington's final possession before the break.

Frye had 10 points and six rebounds in the first quarter. Gortat scored 13 in the first half and Nash had eight assists. Wall and JaVale McGee had 10 points apiece in the first two quarters for Washington.

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