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Foye pushes Wizards past Nets

The game was tied, up for grabs in the final minute. That is, until Wizards guard Randy Foye reached up and grabbed it, seizing it with consecutive jumpers that were as contested as they were clutch.

The Newark native gave the Wizards an 89-85 come-from-behind victory last night over the Nets at the Meadowlands, and handed his hometown team another second-half collapse.

“This is my job. This is what I dreamed of my entire life,” said Foye, who snapped an 83-83 tie with back-to-back 15-foot jumpers from the left corner.

“It doesn’t matter what our record is, or if I’m having a poor shooting night, I’m going to give it my all.”

Nets interim coach Kiki Vandeweghe said his team wanted to pressure Foye along the baseline.

“What we like to get him to do is probably close to what he did: Take long outside shots, or fade away shots with a hand up,” Vandeweghe said. “You can’t ask for anything more. He hit really tough shots. Give him credit. At the end, they hit their shots and we didn’t. I give them a lot of credit. They played a very good game at the end.”

And Foye played a stellar one at the end. Before the Nets’ Yi Jianlian had knotted the game at 83 with a free throw with 58.8 seconds remaining, Foye had made just two of 11 shots.

“When they made their run, we didn’t roll over. And when we made our run they didn’t roll over,” said Foye, a former lottery pick from Villanova.

“That’s what teams do when they’re competing. Both teams played hard. Obviously we got the win. “I just said to myself to take what the defense would give me. We got the switch and the matchup we wanted. They put Yi on me, and I just gave him a little jab-step and drove at him. Then I just pulled up for the shot.”

Foye had been averaging a modest 10.3 points and 3.2 assists, but with Washington’s lineup gutted from cap-clearing trades, Josh Howard’s Monday injury and Gilbert Arenas’ gun-toting banishment, Foye filled the offensive void by averaging 15.2 points and 6.8 rebounds over his last five games.

And last night Foye stepped up at the end. He drove baseline and hit a pull-up over Devin Harris that gave Washington the lead with 44.6 seconds left to play. And after a Harris miss, Foye got Yi on a switch and hit an even tougher fadeaway over the rangy 7-footer, giving the Wizards an 87-83 lead with just 13.5 seconds remaining.

“Randy Foye is definitely a capable scorer,” Harris said. “He had the matchup he wanted. He went against Yi. He took some tough shots over a 7-footer. He’s pretty good going left. He made the shots and we didn’t.

brian.lewis@nypost.com