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Pistons rip Mavs; Kobe leads L.A.

Rasheed Wallace backed up his talk with 21 points and nine rebounds, leading the Detroit Pistons to a 90-67 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

Wallace said the Pistons had to take advantage of the undersized Mavericks by going inside, and he did.

The bombastic center scored over Dirk Nowitzki on a fadeaway late in the third quarter as Detroit pulled away, and Wallace had a some more words for the Mavericks.

"He can't guard me!" Wallace screamed toward Dallas' bench.

The Mavericks had a rough day at the other end of the court, too, with their lowest scoring game and worst shooting performance at 30 percent. Their previous lows were 76 points on Dec. 12 at Toronto and 35 percent on Nov. 10 at Portland.

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• Los Angeles Lakers 103, Wizards 91 — Kobe Bryant outscored Washington by himself in the first quarter. Then he let his Los Angeles teammates in on the fun.

Kobe Bryant put up 19 points in the opening period and finished with 30 on 10-of-15 shooting.

The Los Angeles Lakers compiled 27 assists on 41 field goals, with Vladimir Radmanovic scoring 15 points, Lamar Odom 14 and Ronny Turiaf 13.

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