Gilbert Arenas has been putting up a lot of points this season and feels that his numbers compare well to Kobe Bryant's.

"I'm glad what I'm doing is on national television so they can finally see what I did in the past; my 29 [points per game last season] is not a fluke. What I did in the playoffs is not a fluke. What I've done the last five years is not a fluke," Arenas said. "Everybody says, 'Oh, he's not better than this person, he's not better than that person.' But if you go year by year, number-wise, what's the difference between me and Kobe? He had Shaq. He got three rings. Other than that, my numbers are blowing his out of the water the first six years in the league.

The Phoenix Suns came into Friday night's game versus the Washington Wizards with a fifteen game winning streak.  It took an overtime session and 54 points from Gilbert Arenas, but the streak was snapped with a 144-139 loss.

Steve Nash scored 42 points of his own, along with 12 assists.

Caron Butler chipped in 34 points.

It took a blizzard to finally stop the Phoenix Suns.

The Suns remained snowbound in a downtown Denver hotel Thursday, practicing at the nearby Pepsi Center and getting into a snowball fight to pass the time.

The Denver airport was closed Thursday and wasn't expected to reopen until about noon Friday. A chartered plane was being sent to Denver and the team planned to leave sometime in the afternoon.

The Suns will play the Wizards in Phoenix on Friday night. The game is a late start, 8:30 p.m. MST, which should allow the team to get home in plenty of time.

The Nuggets didn't need Carmelo Anthony early, but could've used him late.

With their leading scorer starting a 15-game suspension, the Nuggets nearly blew a huge lead but held on to beat the Wizards 117-108 on Monday night.

Anthony, J.R. Smith and Nene were all suspended earlier in the day for their roles in a brawl against the Knicks on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Earl Boykins had a season-high 29 points and Marcus Camby grabbed 17 rebounds and scored a season-high 25 points.

The NBA announced today that Wizards Guard Gilbert Arenas was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 11th through Sunday, December 17th, 2006.  This marks the second time this season and the sixth time in his career that Arenas has been named Eastern Conference Player of the Week.  

"It?s a great honor to win this award,? said Arenas.  ?My teammates and I are playing at high level right now.  We had three solid victories this week to show for it.?  

In leading Washington to a perfect 3-0 record last week, Arenas averaged 40.3 points per game and improved his season scoring average to 29.4 points per game; good for third in the NBA.  Arenas also averaged 6.0 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 3.0 steals per game, connected on 48.7 percent of his field goals attempts, and added 12 three-pointers and nine steals to his league-leading season totals.

Gilbert Arenas got on quite a roll, putting up the most points in franchise history and more than anybody, except Wilt Chamberlain, has scored against the Lakers.

In a Kobe-like performance, Arenas had 60 points and outscored Los Angeles' Bryant by 15 Sunday night in the Washington Wizards' 147-141 overtime victory.

Arenas had 16 points in the 5-minute extra period, including 14 in a row for the Wizards during one stretch.

His scoring total was the most against the Lakers in 40 years.

The Washington Wizards are preparing to play without injured centers Etan Thomas and Brendan Haywood at least through tomorrow night's game against the Denver Nuggets at Verizon Center.

Thomas, who sprained his left ankle during the fourth quarter of Saturday night's loss to the Houston Rockets, and Haywood, who left the game in the second quarter with a bruised thigh, did not practice yesterday.

The NBA announced today that Wizards Guard Gilbert Arenas was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 4th through Sunday, December 10th, 2006.  This marks the first time the season that Arenas has been named Player of the Week and the fifth time in his career.

"It?s always an honor to win Player of the Week,? said Arenas.  ?I give a lot of credit to my teammates who played an important role in helping me win this award.  We were able to beat a very good Dallas team this week, and we won both of our games on the road, so it was a good week for our team.?

Gilbert Arenas is empathetic of Allen Iverson's situation and hopes to avoid the same thing happening to him in Washington.

"It's hard in this league because when a team is built around you, it has to be built around you right," Arenas said before Friday's game. "That's why it's so important that I structure my next contract so that it will allow us to go out and get players if we need to. If you look at Allen and KG, they are making so much money, they really can't go out and get other star players. They're kind of stuck."

The Wizards could be without Michael Ruffin for another week and perhaps longer, according to Coach Eddie Jordan. The veteran forward has been out since the Nov. 21 game at Dallas with a sprained right foot and was out for two weeks during the preseason with the same injury.

Ruffin's absence and Darius Songaila's back injury have left the Wizards thin at forward. "He's going to be out, period," Jordan said of Ruffin. "At least a few more days, and maybe longer."