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ORLANDO, Fla. – Hedo Turkoglu scored 22 points, Dwight Howard added 21 and the short-handed Orlando Magic rallied to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 115-111.

on Saturday night.

Hill due to his bruised right wrist, trailed by six with 2:02 left to play after Allen Iverson’s jumper.

Iverson finished with 38 points, his most since sitting out a game two weeks ago with an ankle sprain. Samuel Dalembert tied his career high with 24 points, and added a season-best 16 rebounds.

Jameer Nelson sparked the comeback with two steals, cashed in for three free throws, cutting the deficit to a point. Nelson had seven steals, one short of the franchise record, to go with his 12 points.

Bulls 100, Pistons 89

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Kirk Hinrich had 24 points and nine assists, leading the Chicago Bulls over the Detroit Pistons 100-89 Saturday night.

It was Chicago’s second victory at the Palace in less than a month after not having won there in three years. Chicago hadn’t won twice in Detroit in one season since 1995-96.

Eddy Curry added 15 for the Bulls before fouling out and Antonio Davis had 14.

Hornets 88, Clippers 85

NEW ORLEANS – Dan Dickau capped a career-high 27-point outing with a pair of 3-pointers inside the last 18 seconds, leading the New Orleans Hornets to a 88-85 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.

Wizards 95, Pacers 93

INDIANAPOLIS – Even without Larry Hughes, the Washington Wizards keep finding ways to win.

Antawn Jamison hit a driving layup with 0.4 seconds left to lift the Wizards to a 95-93 victory over the Indiana Pacers.

After Jermaine O’Neal gave Indiana a 93-91 lead with 39.7 seconds left, Gilbert Arenas hit a jumper and the Wizards forced a shot clock violation to get the ball back with 4.5 seconds to play.

Jamison, who finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds, took the ball at the top of the key, drove past two Indiana defenders and lofted a soft hook shot over O’Neal to give the Wizards their second straight win and offset a huge night from O’Neal.

O’Neal scored 12 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to shake the Pacers from their recent struggles in the second game of back-to-backs.

Arenas led the Wizards with 33 points and six assists, helping Washington to its second win in two nights without the injured Hughes.

Arenas picked up the slack for his backcourt mate and had an answer for all O’Neal’s big shots down the stretch.

O’Neal gave the Pacers the lead twice in the final three minutes, and Arenas came back with jumpers both times, the last one coming with 28.5 seconds left to tie the game at 93.

Reggie Miller’s desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer was blocked by Brendan Haywood, giving the Wizards their ninth win in the last 11 games. Hughes has missed the last four games with a broken right thumb. He’ll be out four to six weeks.

Haywood had 15 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks despite suffering bruised ribs in the third quarter and Anthony Peeler added a season-high 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting for the Wizards.

It was the same old story for the Pacers, who were coming off an impressive win at Miami on Friday night. But they fell to 4-9 in the second game of back-to-backs and have had a hard time putting consecutive strong efforts together.

They were right in it against the Wizards, who didn’t arrive in Indianapolis until 1 p.m. on Friday after their flight was delayed due to bad weather in the Washington, D.C. area.

Behind O’Neal, Indiana ripped off a 12-5 run to turn a five-point deficit into an 89-87 lead with under three minutes to play.

But Arenas and Haywood were too much down the stretch.

It was the seventh time this season that Arenas has topped 30 points, and came just two games after he scored a career-high 43 in a loss to Dallas.

After scoring 28 or more points in three straight games, Jamaal Tinsley had a rough night with 16 points on 6-of-17 shooting while battling foul trouble most of the night.

Notes: Pacers F Austin Croshere missed the game with a sinus infection. F Jonathan Bender did not play because of a sore right knee. … Wizards G Juan Dixon also missed the game with the flu. … Former Pacers C Rik Smits was honored at halftime. Queen Beatrix of Smits’ native Netherlands awarded Smits with the Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau, the Dutch equivalent of the Medal of Honor, for his community service. … The Wizards’ traveling media contingent did not make the game because of poor weather in the Washington, D.C. area.

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