Cavaliers fall to Kings for 11th straight loss
Chris Webber led Sacramento with 28 points in the 91-85 win.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Once the shots started dropping for Chris Webber, they hardly stopped.
Webber scored 28 points -- 20 in the second half -- Tuesday night as the Sacramento Kings won their sixth straight, 91-85 over the tumbling Cleveland Cavaliers, who have dropped 11 in a row.
After missing six of his first seven shots, Webber made 10 of 12 as the Kings beat the Cavs for the second time this season.
"In the first half, I had open shots and they just didn't go down," said Webber, who wears a protective wrap on his right hand to protect a cracked knuckle. "In the second half, I tried to mix it up, sort of catch and shoot, take my time. I'm glad I put them down."
Reinforcement
Bobby Jackson added 19 points and Gerald Wallace 15 for Sacramento, which held the Cavs to one field goal -- a 3-pointer by Bimbo Coles -- in the fourth quarter.
The Cavs missed their first 10 shots and went 1-of-14 in the final period while remaining winless since beating the Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. 5.
Cleveland scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, 13 on free throws.
But it wasn't all bad for Cleveland. The Cavs finally got to use rookie guard Dajuan Wagner, who finished with 17 points before fouling out of his NBA debut. Wagner had been sidelined since training camp, and was hospitalized last month with a bladder infection before undergoing surgery to have a blood clot removed.
"He played very, very well," Cavs coach John Lucas said of the first-round draft pick. "There were a whole lot of positives."
The 6-foot-2 shooting guard showed why the Cavs selected him with the No. 6 overall pick, featuring an assortment of strong moves to the basket and a nice outside touch.
Wagner, whose father, Milt, played in the NBA, said he wasn't nervous on his opening night.
"I thought I could have done better, but I did all right," the 19-year-old said. "It was comfortable. I wasn't nervous. Growing up in Camden (N.J.), you don't get nervous playing basketball."
Ricky Davis led Cleveland with 22 points and Zydrunas Ilgauskas had 16.
Despite their atrocious shooting, the Cavs were within 85-83 with 2:19 remaining. However, Webber hit a jump hook in the lane, and with the Kings up by three, Wallace wrestled the ball away underneath and hit a put-back while falling down to make it 89-84 with 37 seconds left.
Opened third with run
Webber, who went just 2-for-9 from the floor in the first half, scored eight points as the Kings opened the third quarter with a 10-2 run to take a 54-52 lead.
After he dunked to end the spurt, Webber hung on the rim and glared at Cavs coach John Lucas, who had tried to strike up a conversation with the Kings forward at halftime.
Webber had good reason to ignore Lucas.
"I like coach Lucas a lot, but he has gotten me out of my game a lot of times," Webber said. "I'm sure glad I didn't hear him. But that look wasn't for him. It was sort of, OK, now we mean business."