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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Vlade Divac scored six of his 20 points during a pivotal fourth-quarter rally and Predrag Stojakovic also had 20 as the Sacramento Kings erased a 23-point second-quarter deficit and beat the Los Angeles Clippers 104-83 Saturday night.

The Kings, eighth in the Western Conference playoff race, won for the sixth time in eight games.

Derek Anderson scored 25 points for the Clippers, who blew a lead of 20 or more points for the second time in their last three home games and failed to make a field goal during the first 7:23 of the fourth quarter.

After scoring the final 11 points of the first half, the Kings extended their run to 21-0 on a layup by Jason Williams that gave them a 51-45 lead with nine minutes left in the third.

The Clippers tied it at 68 with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Eric Piatkowski, but the Kings opened the fourth quarter with a 13-1 run as Divac made a layup, a 13-footer and a 14-footer that capped the run with 7:46 remaining.

The Clippers got no closer than 10 points after that.

Coming off consecutive losses of 20 points at Sacramento and 27 points at Denver, the Clippers squandered this game in front of their third sellout crowd of the season _ and the first that didn't involve their Staples Center co-tenants, the Lakers.

The Clippers, who blew a 20-point margin in less than eight minutes during a 118-101 loss to Charlotte eight nights earlier, nearly gave back all of a 36-13 lead in the final 8:31 of the second quarter as the Kings rallied within 45-41 by halftime.

Williams made a driving layup with 28 seconds left for his first basket of the half, then intercepted a pass by Charles Jones and threw a one-bounce pass that Tony Delk converted into a layup at the halftime buzzer.

Los Angeles opened the game with a 19-2 run as Sacramento missed its first nine shots and turned the ball over four times. Corliss Williamson's six-foot hook shot in the lane was Sacramento's only basket during the first 7:26 of play.

The Kings ended the quarter 3-for-20 from the field (15 percent) and trailing 24-8. It was their lowest-scoring quarter of the season and the fewest the Clippers had allowed in franchise history _ one fewer than the then-Buffalo Braves gave up in the second quarter in a 98-90 loss to the Baltimore Bullets on Feb. 5, 1971 at Baltimore.

Nick Anderson, who returned to the Sacramento lineup after missing four games because of a sore left knee, missed all five of his shots in the first half and finished with seven points on 3-for-11 shooting. ^Notes: The Clippers are 2-22 against the eight Western Conference teams currently holding down a playoff spot. They beat Sacramento 97-91 on Dec. 23 at Los Angeles and the Timberwolves 98-85 on Nov. 17 at Minnesota. ... Former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Fred Claire attended the game. ... This was Sacramento's third and last set of back-to-back games against the same opponent. They split the first two games of the season in Japan against the Timberwolves, and split a home-and-home set with Vancouver at the end of February. ... On Tuesday night, Mitch Richmond will make his first appearance at Arco Arena since leaving Sacramento at the end of the 1997-98 season. Richmond, who has played more games and scored more points for the Kings than anyone in the Sacramento era, didn't come to town with the Washington Wizards last season because of the lockout-shortened schedule. ... The Clippers outrebounded Sacramento 48-34, the fifth straight game in which the Kings have been outrebounded.