NBA Game Summary - Washington at Atlanta

Atlanta, GA (Basketball News) - Gilbert Arenas scored 29 points and Larry Hughes added 23 points and seven assists to lead the Washington Wizards to a 122-93 rout of the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena.

Steve Blake recorded 17 points and Etan Thomas had 15 for the Wizards, who used a huge fourth-quarter run to take command and capture their second straight win. Jared Jeffries, with 14 points, and Kwame Brown, with 13 points, rounded out the double-figure scorers for Washington.

Tony Delk scored 16 points to lead the Hawks, who have dropped three in a row and 16 of their last 17 games. Josh Childress had 15 points for Atlanta, losers of four straight against the Wizards dating back to last season.

Leading 81-73 heading into the fourth quarter, the Wizards began to pull away. Washington scored 27 of the first 34 points in the quarter, including 18 in a row at one point. Arenas had 13 points during the surge, which was capped by a Hughes dunk with 5:18 remaining for a 108-80 cushion.

The Wizards led 28-20 after one quarter and carried a 49-44 edge into halftime.

Washington extended to a 70-54 lead on a Hughes three-point play with 5:24 remaining in the third, but Atlanta refused to go away and went into the fourth down only eight points.

"We started off pretty well," said Washington head coach Eddie Jordan. "We got a lull in there somewhere between the second and third quarter. In the beginning of the fourth we really kept our concentration level up and our defense picked up. Then we kind of broke the thing open."

The Hawks, who shot 44 percent for the game, have dropped five in a row at home.

Atlanta head coach Mike Woodson was ejected in the fourth quarter for picking up a pair of technical.

"I’d had enough and I wanted to go to the locker room," he said about the ejection.