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Washington Wizards beat Milwaukee Bucks 128-116: Anthony Davis scores 34 with 12 rebounds in his Wizards debut
Anthony Davis had 34 points and 12 rebounds in his first game for Washington, and a 21-2 fourth-quarter run carried the Wizards past the Bucks 128-116. Trae Young added 20 points and 13 assists.
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Anthony Davis scored 34 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in his first game for the Washington Wizards, and a 21-2 run early in the fourth quarter carried them to a 128-116 win over the Milwaukee Bucks at Capital One Arena on Wednesday, October 21. Trae Young added 20 points and 13 assists as Washington opened its season by outscoring Milwaukee 38-23 in the final quarter in front of 18,805 fans.
Davis went 11-of-20 from the field and 11-of-14 at the free-throw line, scored 18 of his points in the third quarter, and drew chants of “MVP” from the home crowd. Tyler Herro led Milwaukee with 24 points and 9 assists in his first game as a Buck, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 22.
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How it turned
Davis scored 10 points in the first quarter, including a 26-foot three, and Washington led 25-23 after one. Milwaukee took control in the second. Kel’el Ware scored six points off the bench in just over three minutes, Myles Turner hit a three-point play and a three in a 30-second span, and Herro’s 27-foot step-back three with 7.5 seconds left gave the Bucks a 56-51 halftime lead.
Milwaukee led by as many as eight in the third quarter, 74-66, before Davis went to work. He scored on drives, fadeaways and trips to the line, but the Bucks kept answering from deep: AJ Green hit a three, and Brayden Burries made two in the final 62 seconds of the quarter for a 93-90 lead going into the fourth.
Ryan Rollins opened the fourth with a three to make it 96-90. From there, the Wizards scored 21 of the next 23 points. Justin Champagnie hit a three, Young scored on a floater, and Deandre Ayton’s dunk put Washington ahead 97-96. After a Rollins tip-in, Tre Johnson’s floater gave the Wizards the lead for good at 99-98, and he followed it with a pull-up jumper; Ayton scored twice more, Champagnie finished a three-point play, and Bilal Coulibaly hit a three to make it 111-98 with 7:26 left. Young assisted on five of the baskets in the run.
Herro and Turner hit back-to-back threes to cut the lead to 111-104 with 5:56 to play, but Kyshawn George dunked, Davis made two free throws, Coulibaly dunked and Davis threw down an alley-oop from Alex Sarr to make it 119-106 with 3:19 left.
The numbers
Washington made just 6 of its 28 three-point attempts, but it scored 70 points in the paint to Milwaukee’s 50 and went 32-of-41 at the free-throw line, compared with 19-of-23 for the Bucks. The Wizards also had 11 steals and 7 blocks and turned the ball over only 13 times. George scored 18, including 8 in the fourth quarter, Coulibaly had 11 points, 4 steals and 2 blocks, and Ayton scored 11 on 5-of-6 shooting off the bench. Champagnie had 8 points and 8 rebounds and was plus-17, the best mark in the game. Young got 12 of his 20 points from the line and missed all six of his three-point attempts.
Milwaukee’s side
Herro shot 9-of-21 and 4-of-11 from three. Jaquez made 8 of 12 shots and added 7 rebounds, Kasparas Jakucionis scored 15 off the bench, Burries had 12 and Turner 11. The Bucks made 15 threes to Washington’s 6, but Kyle Kuzma scored 5 points on 2-of-9 shooting and Rollins was 4-of-14. Washington played without AJ Dybantsa (ankle).
What’s next
The Bucks host the Chicago Bulls on Friday, October 23. The Wizards host the Toronto Raptors the same night (7 p.m. ET, 2 a.m. Saturday Cairo time).
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