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HOUSTON (SportsRadio 610)- Nemanja Bjelica capped a wild fourth quarter with a 33-footer at the buzzer giving the Sacramento Kings a 119-118 win over the Rockets Monday night at Toyota Center. 

Bjelica's walk-off answered Russell Westbrook's tiebreaking layup with one second after Ben McLemore and Buddy Hield traded three-pointers in the game's final minute. In total, the fourth quarter saw six ties and six lead changes as the Rockets dropped to 15-8 on the seaosn.


Houston scored the game's first five points, but after a timeout, Sacramento made four straight shots and Corey Joseph capped an 18-5 run with a 3-pointer, making it 18-10 Kings. They pushed the lead to as many as nine, but the Rockets the first quarter by scoring the final five points cutting Sacramento's advantage to 32-28 after 12 minutes.

Harrison Barnes started the second quarter with a dunk to pushing the Kings edge to six, only to see the Rockets answer with back-to-back triples, tying the game. That started a 25-9 Rockets burst, giving them their largest lead of the night, though the Kings got back within a point prior to the Rockets taking a 64-59 lead into the locker room. Westbrook's 16 points led all scorers. 

Sacramento scored the first four points of the second half and regained the lead on Richaun Holmes tap-in with 7:39 left in the third. They led by as many as three, but the Rockets scored seven in a row and pushed the lead to five when James Harden made a pair of free throws, only to see the Kings end the quarter by outscoring the Rockets 8-2, taking a one-point lead into the final period which saw the lead change hands six times in the game's final five minutes. 

Westbrook led all scorers with 34 points on 13-of-17 shooting. He made two of his four attempts from behind the three-point line.

James Harden added 27 points while P.J. Tucker grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds.

Hield's 26 points led Sacramento.

The Rockets will take the floor again Wednesday night when they take on the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first game of a 2-game road trip.