AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Richard Hamilton had a playoff-career high 40 points Wednesday night and Detroit advanced to the second round with a 122-93 victory over Milwaukee.
Rasheed Wallace scored 22 points and keyed an 18-2 run after halftime for the two-time defending Eastern Conference champions, who won the best-of-seven series in five games. Detroit will play the winner of the Cleveland-Washington series. The Pistons will take a day off and have at least a couple of practices before resuming their goal of winning a second title in three years.
Cavaliers 121, Wizards 120, OT
LeBron James muscled through traffic and dropped in a layup with 0.9 seconds left in overtime as Cleveland took a 3-2 series lead.
With the Cavs down by one, James, who finished with 45 points, took an inbounds pass with 3 seconds to go. After sliding past Antawn Jamison, James knifed inside of Michael Ruffin, Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood. He rose in the lane and softly dropped in his layup.
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Arenas, who had 44 points, was way off with a desperation heave at the buzzer.
The best-of-seven series returns to Washington for Game 6 on Friday night.
Larry Hughes scored 24 points, Eric Snow had 18, including six in overtime, and Flip Murray added 12 for the Cavaliers, who blew a seven-point lead late in regulation.
Jamison had 32 points and Caron Butler added 20 for the Wizards.
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