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Dirk Nowitzki had 34 points and Jason Terry scored 33 Saturday night to carry the Dallas Mavericks to a 119-103 win over Washington. Dallas, which won for the fifth time in its last seven games, swept the season series from the Wizards for the third time in the last five years. Dallas forward Josh Howard

The Dallas Mavericks had one last good run in them, and for a flicker it almost seemed possible that out of a sure-fire New Orleans Hornets rout a Game 6 could actually happen.

Game 5 of the Mavericks' first-round playoff series is Tuesday night in New Orleans, and has there ever been a bigger waste of jet fuel? They knew going in that Game 4 was when their season would swing. It swung, all right.

With five words shortly before noon Tuesday, Jason Kidd officially returned to the Dallas Mavericks. "Deal is done and official," Mavs owner Mark Cuban announced via e-mail.