DENVER ? The mighty-mite scorers on both sides, Allen Iverson and Nick Van Exel, rang up their points Friday night at the Pepsi Center.

But when the Philadelphia 76ers needed Iverson most, the Denver Nuggets denied him the ball at the end of the game and held on for a 93-90 victory, snapping a four-game losing streak and giving interim Nugget coach Mike Evans his first official win.

Iverson, the NBA's leading scorer, tallied 38 for the Sixers and Van Exel countered with 33.

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But in Philadelphia's final two possessions, the ball went instead to Aaron McKie, who missed a pair of 3-point field goal attempts in the last 10 seconds of the game, one to give his team the lead and the second to force a tie at the buzzer.