SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Forward Rudy Gay scored 32 points, and guards Rajon Rondo and Marco Belinelli added 19 and 18 points, respectively, to give the Sacramento Kings a 111-104 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks at Sleep Train Arena on Monday.
The Kings held Milwaukee to 39 second-half points and used an 18-11 spurt late to end a four-game losing streak and earn a rare win without center DeMarcus Cousins.
Cousins missed his first game since Nov. 28 after suffering a sprained left ankle in Sacramento’s 121-117 loss at Memphis on Saturday. The Kings (21-27) won for only the second time in nine games without him.
Sacramento also was without guard Ben McLemore, who missed the first game of his career with a sprained right wrist. McLemore, now in his third season, played in 211 consecutive games before suffering the injury, then the second-longest active streak behind Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson, who played his 335th straight game Monday.
Center Greg Monroe scored 24 points and pulled 12 rebounds to lead the Bucks, and guard Michael Carter-Williams added 18 points and 13 assists. Milwaukee (20-30) lost its third straight and is 1-5 in its past six.
Rondo made all four of his 3-pointers to help lift the Kings on a night when he was held to seven assists and committed six turnovers. Rondo has been held to single digits in assists in two straight contests after posting at least 10 in a franchise-record 14 straight games.
Belinelli canned two 3-pointers in a row in the final quarter after opening the contest with six consecutive misses from long range. The second was followed on Sacramento’s next possession by a 3-pointer from guard Omri Casspi that pushed the lead to 99-91.
Gay’s putback a possession after Rondo’s final 3-pointer capped his 13-for-20 shooting night and put the Kings ahead 104-95, sealing Milwaukee’s fate.
Casspi finished with 13 points and guard Darren Collison added 14 for Sacramento.
Forward Jabari Parker had 16 points and seven rebounds, forward Giannis Antetokounmpo contributed 17 points and guard Khris Middleton added 14 for the Bucks, who outscored the Kings in the paint 54-44. The Bucks and Kings are Nos. 1 and 2 in the NBA in that category.
NOTES: Bucks F John Henson (sore lower back) missed his third straight game. Henson this season has blocked 1.98 shots per game and 5.69 shots per 48 minutes, the latter number trailing only Miami C Hassan Whiteside for the NBA lead. … Kings C DeMarcus Cousins saw his longest consecutive-games-played streak since the 2012-13 season end at 29. Cousins averaged 31.5 points and 12.9 rebounds in the 15 games Sacramento played in January. It was the first time he played every game in a full month since November 2013. … The Bucks played the first of three straight road games against Western Conference opponents. Milwaukee lost seven of its first nine on the road against the West before the trip. … The Kings finished January with an 8-7 mark, their first winning record in a full month of games since finishing November 2014 with the same mark. … Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kings C Kosta Koufos played for the Greek national team in the 2015 Eurobasket tournament.