Cavs' Jones puts dagger in Wizards

~ Cleveland advanced to the second round with a 114-113 win in overtime.

WASHINGTON -- It was Damon Jones' turn to hit the winning shot, and it put the Cleveland Cavaliers into the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 13 years.

Jones' 17-foot baseline jumper with 4.8 seconds remaining in overtime gave the Cavaliers a 114-113 victory over the Washington Wizards on Friday night, Cleveland's third one-point victory in a series that ended with the visitors celebrating in a pile near midcourt and left the home team stunned into silence.

"Damon Jones, self-proclaimed 'Best Shooter in the Universe,' hit a dagger," said LeBron James, who made the winning shots in Games 3 and 5.

James scored 32 points in the Game 6 finale, his first playoff series ending in success.

"This is probably one of the best feelings I've had in a long time," James said. "I didn't want to come here and just be happy to be in the playoffs."

He outdueled Gilbert Arenas, who scored 36 points and sent the game to overtime with a long 3-pointer -- then missed two free throws in overtime that gave Cleveland the chance to win.

"It is hard to swallow," Arenas said. "You feel you let your team down."

Cavaliers won two road games in a playoff series for the first time in franchise history and won a playoff series for the first time since 1993, when James was 8 years old. They will have little time to celebrate. They open the second round at Detroit on Sunday.

The last two games of the series went to overtime, and Game 6 was tight once the Cavaliers overcame the Wizards' 14-point first-quarter lead. For 24 minutes -- from early in the second quarter to early in the fourth -- neither team led by more than five points.

Jones was a marginal player in the series, and he was on the court for only the final sequence of Game 6. His line: 1-for-1 with 2 points in 14 seconds of play.

James shot 15-for-25 and had seven rebounds, seven assists and five turnovers. He had a pair of key blocks and persevered after getting knocked woozy in a collision with Wizards center Brendan Haywood early in the fourth quarter.

Donyell Marshall scored a season-high 28 points, and Flip Murray had 21 for the Cavaliers.

Antonio Daniels scored 22 for the Wizards.