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WASHINGTON -- The first three times the Washington Wizards reached .500, they lost their next game. On Wednesday against Boston, the Wizards get their fourth shot at the break-even point, and they hope its the last time. "Its not a magical thing (where) I think all of a sudden fairy dust is going to fall on us if we get over .500 (and) were not going to lose another game," Washington coach Randy Wittman said. The Wizards havent been over .500 since Oct. 31, 2009, when they were 2-1. After their 107-99 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, they were in no mood to admit that it was always on their mind. Players shouted to each other to ignore questions about the mark, but none did. "Were aware of it, but we just have to not even think about it," Bradley Beal said. Beal nearly had his first career triple-double. Two days after he missed 12 of his 14 shots in a loss to Detroit, Beal had 22 points -- 13 of them in the second quarter when Washington built a 10-point halftime lead. He also had nine rebounds, a season high, and eight assists, equaling his career best. Marcin Gortat had 19 points and 11 rebounds. Kevin Seraphin had 16 points for Washington. John Wall added 14. Each time the Wizards reached .500 this season, their next game was at home, and they lost to Milwaukee, Dallas and Detroit. "Were done with that," Gortat said. "Every time we talk about being a .500 team and getting over .500, we have teams coming in here and just punking our butts." Michael Carter-Williams led Philadelphia, which has lost seven of eight, with 31. Thaddeus Young had 18. Spencer Hawes had 11 points and had a season high 16 rebounds. Carter-Williams and Young scored the first 19 Philadelphia points in the third, but the Sixers trailed 70-66 midway through the period. Washington led 86-73 after three. The Wizards were ahead 100-79 with 6:07 to play, but Philadelphia scored 13 straight to trail by eight with 2:26 left. Washington didnt make a field goal for more than eight minutes in the fourth quarter. Wittman substituted for his starters, but after the bench played poorly, the starters came back in to stabilize things. "Youre always on audition," Wittman told his bench. "Those guys got to learn. Guys that want to play or think they should be in rotations better show me out there where it counts." While the Wizards are 20-20 and hope to reach the halfway point of their season a game over .500, the Sixers are 13-28. Expectations were low when the season began, but Philadelphia won its first three over Miami, Washington and Chicago. With more than three weeks until the league pauses for the All-Star game, coach Brett Brown is still hopeful his team can improve. "Youre getting ready for spring break, and everybodys going to Fort Lauderdale, and theres a time where you can dig in pre-All-Star break and finish this middle third of the season with some grunt," Brown said before the game. In his rookie season, Carter-Williams said it was hard to sometimes stay with it. "Ive never played this long of a season so Im learning each and every day and Im going through it a little bit. My body is tired a little bit, mentally Ive got to stay strong," Carter-Williams said. Carter-Williams was 13 for 22 from the field, had six rebounds and five assists as he tried to keep Philadelphia competitive. "He felt the need to take the game and try and put us back in a position where we could inch our way back in it, and he did," Brown said. NOTES: Wizards swingman Glen Rice was assigned to Iowa of the D-League. Rice had right wrist surgery last month, and coach Randy Wittman said that he needs some playing time and could return to the team during its upcoming four-game road trip, which begins on Friday. ... Sixers G Tony Wroten is out with a sprained right ankle. Brown refused to estimate how long he will be sidelined. Wroten sustained the injury on Saturday in Chicago. ... 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Smith Jersey . - The Mavericks built a 12-point lead with 2:50 to play, gave away all but two points of it, and still managed to hang on.SAO PAULO - Lewis Hamilton enters the last two races of the Formula One season hopeful Mercedes has done enough to solve the reliability issues that hurt the team earlier in the year.With a comfortable lead over teammate Nico Rosberg, Hamilton will be in good position to clinch his second world title if he can just bring his car home at this weekends Brazilian Grand Prix and at the season finale in Abu Dhabi later this month.Hamilton can secure the title with consecutive second-place finishes or by finishing third in Brazil and second in Abu Dhabi, which will be worth double points.Mercedes has been dominant all year, so if Hamilton can avoid accidents or the types of mechanical problems that affected the team during parts of the season, he can just coast behind Rosberg and still finish where he needs to clinch the title.The most difficult thing this year for sure was dealing with the DNFs and the problems that we had with the car and not finishing the races, he said. We have to turn negatives into positives. Thats how I managed to get myself where I am today. We have to put that positive energy out there and maximize the opportunities.Hamilton failed to finish three races this year, and Rosberg didnt cross the finish line two times.Another setback for Hamilton in Brazil could turn the title race in Rosbergs favour again.This is not something you think about, Hamilton said. We are going into the last two races with positive energy.Hamilton has won 10 races this season, including the last five. He made it ontoo the podium every time he crossed the finish line.dddddddddddd. Mercedes has finished 1-2 in 10 of the 17 races so far, and the last time one of its drivers retired was at the Singapore GP in September.Yes, weve had issues, weve not been perfect, but weve been constantly improving and trying to rectify all the issues that weve had, Hamilton said. Some of the issues that have come up have been a huge surprise for us. We dont know what the future holds, but I think weve done quite a good job, particularly in the last five or six races. Im hopeful.Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff said the team will do everything possible to make sure both cars make it to the end in the final two races.There will be (no) rest between now and the end of the season as the double-points in Abu Dhabi still has the potential to overshadow a great season should reliability become a factor, he said. Our focus is still 100 per cent on ensuring that is not the case.Although Hamilton clinched his first world title in Brazil in 2008, he hasnt had a lot of good luck at the Interlagos track recently. He failed to finish the race in two of the last three years, and was only ninth a year ago. He has never finished better than third at the track in Sao Paulo.The British driver said things could be different this time.We have a great car, an amazing team, this is the best season Ive ever had, he said. Its like Im going for my first world championship. Im hungrier than ever.___Follow Tales Azzoni at http://twitter.com/tazzoni ' ' '