Toronto topples Kings

TORONTO - The Sacramento Kings picked a bad time to blink.

Chris Bosh had 36 points and 11 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani scored 22 points and the Toronto Raptors rallied to beat the Kings, 115-104, yesterday, extending Sacramento’s losing streak to six games.

“We had a lead in the fourth quarter and couldn’t hold it,” Kings coach Paul Westphal said. “We missed a lot of free throws; we couldn’t control Bosh. We couldn’t finish the deal and it’s primarily because we couldn’t get the stops we needed. It was about 42 or 44 minutes of really good basketball for us. The four to six minutes that wasn’t gives us a loss.”

Hedo Turkoglu and Antoine Wright each scored 16 points as Toronto topped 100 for the 16th consecutive game and won its seventh straight at home.

Kevin Martin scored 24 points and Spencer Hawes had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Kings, who have won just three of their past 20 and are 3-22 on the road.

“You start missing free throws and you start missing shots, everyone gets pressing, everyone kind of tenses up,” Hawes said. “That tends to happen in the fourth quarter, regardless. When things start going wrong it kind of magnifies itself.”

Donte Greene scored 13 points while Tyreke Evans and Andres Nocioni each had 11 for Sacramento.

Bosh made 14-of-18 field goal attempts and went 8-for-11 from the foul line as the Raptors won for the 13th time in 14 home games.

“I said coming into this season that I want to be the best forward in the league and I was going to have to be consistent, try to play every game,” Bosh said. “So far it’s been pretty good.”