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LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol and Steve Nash watched the entire fourth quarter from the bench. Kobe Bryant sat one row behind them in a black shirt and suit. The Lakers three veteran stars were spectators for one remarkable show put on by five Lakers reserves who werent ready to cede Los Angeles supremacy to their Staples Center rivals. Xavier Henry scored a career-high 22 points, Jordan Farmar added 16, and the Lakers surged past the Los Angeles Clippers in the final minutes for a 116-103 victory in both clubs season opener Tuesday night. By the time the Lakers reserves were done with Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, coach Doc Rivers Clippers debut was wrecked -- and so were many preconceptions about the Lakers prospects this season. The Lakers 76 bench points were the most in club history since March 1985. "Its not a bad thing to be the underdog sometimes," said Jodie Meeks, who scored nine of his 13 points in the fourth quarter. "No expectations. We go out there and play hard. Whats the worst that can happen? We lose, and people say were no good?" The Lakers 41-point fourth quarter was downright stunning, but the identities of the players responsible for this exciting, free-flowing opener were even more jaw-dropping. "Mike (DAntoni) did a great thing: He didnt bring his starters back in," Rivers said. "There was a point where I was thinking: Please bring them back in." A team that was 28th in the NBA in reserve scoring last season got outstanding bench play from a five-man unit, including three guys who werent even on the team last season: Wesley Johnson, two-time NBA champion Farmar, and Henry, the former first-round pick who burned out in Memphis and New Orleans. A new season is a chance for a fresh start, and Henry needs one just as much as the Lakers. He scored 12 points in the fourth quarter while leading a 28-8 run. "Were a deep team, and people dont think were that good," Henry said. "That always fuels us. People are saying were going to finish 12th or whatever, but we have a great group of guys who go out there and play hard. Were young. Were athletic. We get after it." The long-established hoops hierarchy in Los Angeles flipped earlier this year: The Clippers won a division title and became veteran championship contenders, while the Lakers lost their stars to injury or free agency and prepared for a long rebuilding process. At least in the opener, the Lakers flipped it again -- and embarrassed Rivers in the process. "We were not ready tonight," said Rivers, the longtime Celtics coach who hopes to push the Clippers into title contention. "(The Lakers) have heard for probably the last two months how good (the Clippers) were going to be ... so you knew that they were going to play like this was the world championship -- with that type of energy. And I thought we never matched it. Everything they did was harder than us and more physical than us. They destroyed us on the glass and destroyed us in turnovers. So it was a good lesson for us." Griffin scored 19 points and Paul had 15 points and 11 assists for the Clippers, who beat the Lakers four times last season on the way to their first Pacific Division title. DeAndre Jordan added 17 points and 11 rebounds. "Youve got to give it to them. They outplayed us," Griffin said. "They did a good job. They were ready. They turned up the heat in the fourth quarter, and we didnt respond." Gasol scored 11 of his 15 points in the first quarter, and Jordan Hill added 12 points and eight rebounds as the Lakers improved to 42-24 on opening night, the best winning percentage in NBA history. After the off-season losses of Dwight Howard and Metta World Peace, not much is expected from the Lakers. Yet they thrived for a night without Bryant, who missed a season opener for the first time since 2006. The fourth-leading scorer in NBA history hasnt returned to practice this fall after tearing his Achilles tendon late last season. The Clippers led 57-55 at halftime while hitting nearly 59 per cent of their shots. They pushed their lead to eight points in the third quarter, but the Lakers went ahead 86-83 with 9:06 to play on Meeks three-point play. "Oh, man, it seemed like it just happened so fast," Paul said. "Those guys executed their game plan, and when youre missing somebody like Kobe, you feed off that energy." NOTES: The evening began with a moment of silence for Bill Sharman, who died last week at 87. He coached the 1971-72 Lakers to their first championship in Los Angeles, winning an NBA-record 33 consecutive games along the way. ... The Clippers won their final seven games of the regular season last spring. ... Floyd Mayweather Jr., Diddy, Yasiel Puig, Tommy Lasorda and Flea attended the game. 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The four All-Star teams will play for $100,000 in prize money during TSNs annual skins game, airing live this weekend on TSN from The Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre.SACRAMENTO, Calif. - It required a game-winning shot in the final second of overtime by Carl Landry for the Sacramento Kings to finally win a game without DeMarcus Cousins on the court.Rudy Gay scored 27 points, but it was Landry playing the heros role by converting the game-winner for the Kings, who beat the struggling Indiana Pacers 102-101 in overtime Friday night to stop a four-game losing streak.Suffering from a viral infection, Cousins watched in street clothes as his teammates squandered a 17-point third quarter lead, but managed to escape with the victory to halt a 16-game losing streak. Their last victory with Cousins sidelined was April 13, 2013, against Chicago.Hopefully this gives us a little confidence. We have to find a way (to win) when anyone is hurt, Kings coach Michael Malone said.A veteran forward in his eighth season, Landry has proved valuable off the bench this season. That was definitely the case against the Pacers.Landry grabbed the rebound of a missed 15-foot baseline jumper by Gay, made a quick fake and converted underneath with 0.8 seconds left.We ran a play to get Darren Collison open on the inbound play, to eventually give Rudy the ball on an isolation, said Landry, who had 14 points and seven rebounds. I just told my teammates that Reggie (Evans) and I were going to crash the glass. But being in situations like that you never know. The ball will bounce your way and thats what it did tonight.The Kings were outscored 24-16 in the fourth quarter and didnt have a basket over the final 4:12 of regulation. They outscored the Pacers 6-5 in overtime.Collison scored 20 points for the Kings, while Ben McLemore added 12 and Jason Thompson contributed nine points and 10 rebounds.David West scored 14 of his 16 in the final two quarters, and missed on a 29-footer in overtime to end the game. Indiana has lost four straight and five of six. Rodney Stuckey and CJ Watson both had 14 points, while Luis Scola and Damjan Rudez each added 11.dddddddddddd.This is frustrating as any loss. Weve won one that way and weve lost one that way, Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. Its part of the long NBA season. You are going to have some games like that. I am proud of the way we competed down the stretch to make it a game when we were down.Cousins, the Kings leading scorer and rebounder, missed his fourth straight game with a viral infection. Cousins is expected to miss Saturdays home game against Orlando, but return Monday against visiting Utah.Watson erased a four-point Kings lead early in OT, hitting a 3-pointer and scoring on a drive to put the Pacers up 101-100. No other Pacer scored in overtime. West made a difficult 6-footer in traffic to tie the game at 96 with 26.1 seconds remaining. He missed a desperate shot at the fourth-quarter buzzer, sending the game into overtime.___COLLISON CONTRIBUTES: Collison was coming off perhaps his worst game of the season, missing all five shots and scoring four points in a Tuesday loss to Toronto where he never left the bench in the fourth quarter. He had all of his four steals in the opening quarter against Indiana and finished with six assists and six rebounds.ROAD WOES: The Pacers dropped all four games on their road trip and are now 3-8 away from home this season.TIP-INSPacers: After starting the first 18 games of the season, point guard Donald Sloan did not play in Thursdays loss to Portland or against the Kings.. . Indiana starters made five of 21 first-half shots and had 13 points.Kings: In a tribute to the 1950s, the Kings wore retro uniforms with Rochester on the front. The franchise began in Rochester, New York, before moving to Cincinnati, Kansas City and then Sacramento for the 1985-86 season.UP NEXTThe Pacers host Atlanta on Monday.The Kings host Orlando on Saturday. 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