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Boo birds lay into Kobe during Nuggets' victory

Published: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004 11:13 a.m. MST
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Detroit's Tayshaun Prince scored 13, Mehmet Okur had 10 and reserve Chucky Atkins added 11. Ben Wallace, the reigning NBA player of the week, had nine points, 15 rebounds and three blocks.

HEAT 102, BULLS 95: At Miami, Eddie Jones scored 27 points and Lamar Odom added 25 as the Miami Heat, coming off their lowest-scoring game of the season, held off Chicago.

The Heat, who lost 87-65 to Indiana on Monday, topped the 100-point mark for the fifth time and won for the sixth time in nine games.

Bulls rookie Ronald Dupree was impressive in his NBA debut, scoring a team-high 18 points.

Dupree, who starred at LSU and was in the NBA's developmental league, was signed earlier in the day to a 10-day contract and kept the Bulls close in the fourth quarter. He made seven of 11 shots and also led the Bulls in rebounding with nine in 26 minutes.

BUCKS 95, SUNS 87: At Milwaukee, Michael Redd scored 23 points, including 13 in the third quarter, and the Milwaukee Bucks extended their winning streak to a season-high four games. The Bucks hadn't beaten Phoenix since Nov. 12, 1999.

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Desmond Mason scored 17 points, Joe Smith had 14 and T.J. Ford 11 for Milwaukee.

Joe Johnson had a season-high 25 points, Shawn Marion added 19 and Leandro Barbosa 16 for the Suns, who had Antonio McDyess and Howard Eisley in the lineup for the first time since acquiring them in a package from New York for Stephon Marbury and Penny Hardaway.

HORNETS 97, WIZARDS 87: At New Orleans, Baron Davis had 28 points and 10 assists and David Wesley broke out of a slump with 20 points.

Wesley, who scored a total of 13 points and shot only 21 percent in his previous two games, was 7-of-13 — including three 3-pointers.

Davis scored all of the Hornets' points during a 9-2 fourth-quarter run that put the game out of reach. He started it with a 3-pointer, hit a pair of free throws and converted a pair of acrobatic drives, going behind his back on his way to the basket on the first.

On the other, he muscled his way along the baseline for a short floating hook off a double-pump to give the Hornets an 88-65 lead with about 5:30 left.

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Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, left, sizes up Denver's Voshon Lenard during the Lakers' loss to the Nuggets.

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