WASHINGTON – Not even the top team in the Western Conference can stop the streaking Washington Wizards.

Juan Dixon scored 13 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter and helped the Wizards to their seventh straight win, a 108-103 victory that sent the Phoenix Suns to their first three-game losing streak of the season.

The Wizards made up a 10-point, second-half deficit and pulled ahead with a 16-0 run in a game that had a rare MCI Center sellout crowd standing and cheering thunderously for much of the final minute.

Gilbert Arenas scored 26 points, Larry Hughes had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Antawn Jamison had 17 points and seven rebounds for the Wizards. But it was reserve guard Dixon who was the late sparkplug for the second straight night.

Dixon scored 11 of his 13 in the fourth quarter Friday night in a come-from-behind victory at Milwaukee. He scored six quick points in the first quarter Saturday after Arenas struggled early, then returned to ignite a rally that helped erase a 93-84 lead the Suns held with 6:20 to play.

Dixon, who starred locally for the University of Maryland, paused to admire one 3-pointer while adding a little body English, then shouted, jumped and clenched his fists while heading downcourt after a driving change-hands-in-midair layup in traffic. Both plays came during the 16-0 run.

Dixon was 10-for-13 from the field and became the first Wizards player other than Arenas, Jamison or Hughes to lead or tie for the team lead in scoring this season.

Amare Stoudemire scored 26 points for the Suns, 15 after being fired up by a taunting foul on Hughes late in the final seconds of the first half. But most of those points came from the free-throw line – Stoudemire was just 3-for-12 from the field in the second half.

Quentin Richardson added 25 points, and Shawn Marion had 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Suns, who are 0-3 on their East Coast road trip. Phoenix got zero points from its bench.

Steve Nash, the NBA’s assists leader, sat out after bruising his thigh in Phoenix’s loss to Indiana the night before. His replacement, Leandro Barbosa, opened 1-for-8 in his first start of the season. Barbosa finished with 15 points and no assists, and the Suns’ 13 team assists were a season-low for the third straight game.

Stoudemire and Richardson combined for 27 first-half points for the Suns, but both teams’ fatigue from playing the night before showed in 18 combined first-half turnovers.

A defining sequence occurred in the final seconds of the first half. Hughes drove down the middle of the lane for an emphatic dunk that gave the Wizards a two-point lead, then got a technical for celebrating in Stoudemire’s face.

Then, with one more possession in the half, Stoudemire emphatically dunked in the rebound on Richardson’s missed jumper with 0.4 seconds remaining to give the Suns a 53-52 lead. Stoudemire thumped his chest at the crowd, then traded high chest-bumps with Richardson after the buzzer sounded.

When they returned for the second half, Stoudemire and Hughes were fired up, but neither player shot well, and Stoudemire got a technical of his own for protesting a no-call in the fourth quarter.

Notes: The Wizards are 8-5 against the Western Conference and have scored 100 points in 10 straight games. … Washington’s Jarvis Hayes returned after missing one game with a concussion. … Don’t expect Wizards forward Kwame Brown back anytime soon. The 2001 No. 1 overall draft pick has played in just 14 games because of ankle injuries. “We’re looking at a long-range healing process,” coach Eddie Jordan said. “We’re not looking at anything for a week or two, maybe a little bit longer.” … The sellout was the Wizards’ third of the season.

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