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  Sacramento 96, Detroit 94
  Stojakovic Buries Pistons at End

  AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Feb. 11 (Ticker) -- All-Star Peja Stojakovic appears
  to be in  good form  for the  Foot Locker  3-Point  Shootout  at All-Star
  Weekend.

  Stojakovic, the two-time defending champion of the shooting competition,
  nailed a long jump shot  with three-tenths of a second remaining to lift
  the  Sacramento Kings  to a 96-94  triumph over  the struggling  Detroit
  Pistons.

  "I wouldn't bet against him," Kings coach Rick Adelman said. "He's the
  best shooter in the league right now, in my opinion."

  In a physical matchup  that saw Detroit's  Zeljko Rebraca a nd former King
  Corliss Williamson ejected for altercations with Sacramento's Brad Miller,
  the Pistons tied the game 94-94  on a pair of free throws by  All-Star Ben
  Wallace -- a 51 percent foul shooter -- with 24 seconds left.

  Detroit had a foul to give and used it on Mike Bibby with 6.2 seconds left.
  The ensuing inbounds pass went to Vlade Divac, who appeared to have a clear
  path to the lane but elected to flip it to Stojakovic on the right wing.

  "Their guy (Bob Sura) helped toward me, so I knew I had to give the ball
  up," Divac said. "I wanted to take the shot, but Peja was open."

  Stojakovic, who had his right toe on the arc, swished his jumper and ran
  downcourt with his arms at his side.

  "That was a great look and a great play," Stojakovic said.  "It worked for
  us all night -- we put Mike, Vlade and I in the corner and worked off each
  other's screens.  That time,  it was me who got open,  but we had gotten a
  lot of great shots for Mike off the same play tonight."

  "He shoots like  Larry Bird out there,"  said Detroit's  Richard Hamilton,
  who scored 27 points. "When he took that last one, I knew it was going in,
  because he'd been making those all night."

  Sura was well off on a desperation shot at the buzzer, sealing the Pistons'
  season-high fifth straight loss.

  Bibby scored 26 points,  Stojakovic added 25  and Miller chipped in 18, 15
  rebounds and five assists for the league-leading Kings, who have won seven
  of eight heading into the break.

  Wallace had 17 points and 19 rebounds for the Pistons, who began the game
  shooting 1-of-13 but finished at 48 percent (38-of-80).

  Sacramento jumped out to a 14-2 lead  as Detroit missed its first eight
  shots. The Kings led by as many as 15 points but the Pistons rallied in
  the second quarter to take a 50-49 lead into the break.

  The Kings held a 65-56 lead when Miller and Rebraca got entangled going for
  a rebound  with 5:08 left  in the third quarter.  Rebraca felt  he had been
  elbowed and threw  a couple of punches at Miller,  with one grazing the top
  of his head. Rebraca was ejected for the blows.

  "I didn't even realize he threw a punch at me. I just felt him grabbing at
  me and I tried to  get away from him,"  Miller said.  "If they  would have
  called anything on me,  I would have  called the league office,  because I
  just walked away from him."

  With 32 seconds left in the period, Williamson was whistled for a flagrant
  -2 violation for leveling Miller as he drove down the lane.

  "It was a hard foul, but I believe he had some extra theatrics," Williamson
  said.   "The way the game was going,  I guess the refs  thought they had to
  take control."