Chauncey Billups hit a 14-foot jumper with 0.7 seconds remaining Wednesday to give the Detroit Pistons a 107-105 victory over the Washington Wizards.

Billups and the Pistons overcame a 19-point first-half deficit and trailed by as many as 15 in the third quarter.

Billups had a season-high 32 points.

The game was Washington's first sellout since last February.

Washington Wizards President of Basketball Operations Ernie Grunfeld announced today that the team has activated guard Steve Blake and placed guard Laron Profit on the injured list with an arch strain in his left foot.

Blake has had two separate stints on the injured list this season. He missed the first eight games of the season after having surgery to remove a chipped bone from his right ankle on September 22, 2004. Blake was activated from the injured list on November 20 and played in two games, prior to being placed on the injured list with an arch strain in his left foot on December 28. In his rookie campaign with the Wizards last season, Blake played in 75 games with 14 starts. He averaged 5.9 points and 2.8 assists per game.

Profit returned to the Wizards on October 1, 2004 after signing with the team as a free agent. In nine appearances this season, he averaged 3.1 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. Profit made his first start since April 18, 2001 in the Wizards season opener at Memphis (11/3), finishing with 11 points, seven rebounds and six assists in 33 minutes.

In just his second trip back to Oakland, Gilbert Arenas made it a special one.

Arenas broke a tie with an improbable driving layup with 0.8 of a second remaining as the Wizards defeated the Warriors 103-101 at the Arena in Oakland.

Arenas finished the contest with 29 points, while his fellow former Warriors, Larry Hughes and Antawn Jamison scored 25 and 18 respectively.

Gilbert Arenas, Larry Hughes and Antawn Jamison played together with the Golden State Warriors in the 2001-02 season and now as members of the Washington Wizards, they will return to Oakland with an impressive 13-9 record.

"It doesn't really matter to me now; it's just a game that we want to win," said Hughes, who signed with the Wizards as a free agent in August 2002. "We went out there and lost, and the year before that we lost, too. And if you look at it, everything out there has changed."

"I went there twice last year," said Jamison, who played sparingly in those appearances. "There was all the hoopla for me. But now it's really nothing. The first time you go back it's like, 'Wow, this is where I spent a couple of years of my career.' But now it's out the window. There are no feelings at all about it."

"We feel good with what we're doing," Hughes said. "When we were there that organization was a lot like the Wizards. We were known for losing games and not knowing how to finish games. But I think this organization has turned it around and it's completely different from top to bottom in terms of changing the attitude. I'm glad I'm here."

Dwayne Wade will be a gametime decision on Wednesday night at Washington.

Wade indicated that he sat out the second half of the Heat's victory against the Wizards with a sprained left ankle only as a precaution, saying he could have returned if not for concerns that failing to rest the ankle could lead to lingering problems.

Dwayne Wade sprained his left ankle grabbing a loose ball with 3:18 left in the first half, and did not return to the game. A Heat spokesman said Wade's second-half absence was "more precautionary than anything else."

The Heat went on to win without Wade, as Shaq led the charge with 40 points, defeating the Wizards by a final score of 106-83.

Wade has missed two games so far this season due to a sprained ankle.

Angry over Kwame Brown?s boycott of a team huddle during a game, Eddie Jordan is speaking out against immaturity of his players.  Mr. Jordan decided to suspend Brown for last nights game against the Knicks to show he is serious.  

"It was detrimental to the team's success," Jordan said. "We've had some success. We've had a lot of maturity from the time of the end of the last season through the summer to preseason to now, and we're not tolerating immaturity. We're not tolerating any type of poor conduct or behavior. We'll all on the same page."

According to sources close to the team, the Washington Wizards have suspended Kwame Brown one game for a dispute with head coach Eddie Jordan during Wednesday?s home loss to the Denver Nuggets.

Brown, recently activated from the injured list and working his way back into game shape, entered the game to start the second quarter and drew Jordan?s ire by failing to carry out defensive assignments. Witnesses said that Brown walked away from an irate Jordan during a timeout, and then refused to rejoin the huddle despite requests from teammates and coaches. Brown was pulled from the lineup and remained on the bench throughout the second half.

Brown, who is in the final year of his contract and could become a free agent at season?s end, missed the team?s first 12 games as he recovered from surgery to repair a broken bone in his right foot.

The Washington Wizards? Gilbert Arenas and the Dallas Mavericks? Dirk Nowitzki today were named the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, November 29 through Sunday, December 5.

Arenas led the Wizards to a perfect 3-0 week, averaging 25.7 points (first in the Eastern Conference) on .449 shooting and .571 three-point shooting, while recording 5.3 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game in wins over New Jersey, Atlanta and Chicago. Arenas posted a season-high 34 points in a 95-88 win over Chicago on Saturday.

Nowitzki led the Mavericks to a 2-1 week, averaging a league-high 34.7 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.67 blocks in wins over Houston and Utah, and a loss to San Antonio. Nowitzki scored 53 points in the Mavericks? win overtime over Houston, marking a franchise record, an American Airlines Center record, a career-high and an NBA season-high.

The Wizards defeated the Bulls on Saturday night by a final score of 95-88, improving their record to 10-5, a record that marks the franchise's best start in 30 years.

"There's going to be a lot of that," Larry Hughes said after Saturday's 95-88 victory over the Chicago Bulls. "Y'all are going to come in here and say a lot of things about the years going back."

"We don't have the same team we had last year -- or the year before," Arenas said. "It's a different team. We got a different attitude, and we want to win."

The Wizards' 15-game record is their best since the 1974-75 team started 11-4 and won a franchise record 60 games.