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TORONTO (AP) -- Charles Oakley helped the Toronto Raptors
overcome Vince Carter's second straight subpar performance since the second-year star was left off the U.S. Olympic team.
Oakley had a season-high 20 points and 16 rebounds as the
Raptors beat Sacramento 101-89 on Thursday night, snapping the
Kings' four-game winning streak.
|  | | Vince Carter played his second subpar game. He was 7-for-23 shooting and scored 14 points. |
"That's how it is sometimes. I don't always hit consistent
shots," said Oakley, who was 10-of-18 from the field.
The 36-year-old forward averaged a career-low 5.8 points in his
first 30 games this season.
"Old Oak still has a tremendous amount of pride. Give him a
shot and he's going to make them," Raptors coach Butch Carter
said. "Charles knew where he was in a situation where it could
have been a one-way street guarding Chris Webber."
Carter, coming off a 13-point effort Tuesday night against
Portland, was 7-of-23 from the field and scored 14 points.
Carter, the NBA rookie of the year last season, did finish
strong, closing with a two-handed dunk and another impressive
basket off Muggsy Bogues' alley-oop pass.
"Everybody did the job," said Carter, who had six assists.
"It was a team effort. As long as we're winning I'm don't care
about how I'm doing."
Webber, who averaged 31 points in his last five games, led
Sacramento with 27 points and 19 rebounds as the Kings were held to
their third lowest point total of the season.
"Give them credit, they wanted this win," Webber said. "You
have to be careful not to totally do it yourself. I don't want to
take crazy shots when there's no one to rebound."
Doug Christie hit four 3-pointers and had 16 points, and Tracy
McGrady added 15 for Toronto.
"We held them to under 100 points," McGrady said.
"Defensively, we were tremendous from start to finish and that's
what it's going to take."
While Carter struggled for Toronto, fellow second-year star Jason Williams had only five points and four assists for the Kings.
Bogues finished with 12 points, and Antonio Davis had 10 points
and 12 rebounds. Jon Barry had 14 points for Sacramento.
The Raptors got off to a fast start, outshooting the Kings 48
percent to 29 percent in the first quarter to take a 30-16 lead.
With Oakley hitting several long-range jumpers, Toronto opened a
20-point lead midway through the second quarter.
"We made a mistake not getting to him," Kings coach Rick
Adelman said. "He's the type of player who, if you give him 20
shots, he'll hit them."
The Kings rallied to briefly take the lead late in the third
quarter on Barry's layup that made it 75-74. But McGrady came back
with a driving layup with 22.9 seconds left.
The Kings, who finish their four-game road trip in Boston on
Friday night, have allowed 100 points or more in 15 of their last
18 games.
"I don't think we did a good job of getting to them early,"
Adelman said. "I don't believe we contested enough shots tonight.
We have to come out with intensity on the road and we didn't."
Game notes
Raptors rookie Aleks Radojevic, the 12th pick in the 1999
NBA draft, underwent back surgery Thursday and is expected to be out 4-6 weeks. ... Only Toronto players -- Christie and McGrady -- were with the Raptors when they last played the Kings on Jan. 30, 1998. ... Christie broke Damon Stoudamire's team record for career
three-pointers (340). He needs 12 points to pass Stoudamire for total scoring. ... Toronto is 13-0 when scoring at least 100 points.
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Toronto 101
Sacramento 89
Cleveland 90
Golden State 75
Detroit 101
Milwaukee 95
Miami 111
Houston 99
Minnesota 98
Portland 96
Utah 105
Dallas 92
Indiana 102
Denver 87
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