TORONTO — The Sacramento Kings picked a bad time to blink.
Chris Bosh had 36 points and 11 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani scored 22 points and the Toronto Raptors rallied to beat the Kings 115-104 on Sunday afternoon, extending Sacramento's losing streak to six games.
"We had a lead in the fourth quarter and couldn't hold it," Kings coach Paul Westphal said. "We missed a lot of free throws; we couldn't control Bosh.
"We couldn't finish the deal and it's primarily because we couldn't get the stops we needed. It was about 42 or 44 minutes of really good basketball for us. The four to six minutes that wasn't gives us a loss."
Hedo Turkoglu and Antoine Wright each scored 16 points as Toronto topped 100 for the 16th consecutive game and won its seventh straight at home.
Kevin Martin scored 24 points and Spencer Hawes had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Kings, who have won just three of their past 20 and are 3-22 on the road.
"You start missing free throws and you start missing shots, everyone gets pressing, everyone kind of tenses up," Hawes said. "That tends to happen in the fourth quarter, regardless. When things start going wrong it kind of magnifies itself."
It's the third time in four games the Kings have been burned in the fourth, and the late lapses are wearing on rookie Tyreke Evans.
"That's when our problem is," Evans said. "Coach always comes into the locker room and says, 'We're almost there.' That's not going to get us where we want to be. We've got to find a way to work hard and pull together down the stretch."
Donte Greene scored 13 points while Evans and Andres Nocioni each had 11 for Sacramento.
Bosh made 14 of 18 field goal attempts and went 8 for 11 from the foul line as the Raptors won for the 13th time in 14 home games.
"I said coming into this season that I want to be the best forward in the league and I was going to have to be consistent, try to play every game," Bosh said. "So far it's been pretty good."
Bosh has had double-doubles in nine of his past 11, leading former college teammate Jarrett Jack to call this the best stretch of Bosh's career.
"I've never seen him play like this," Jack said. "He's almost dominant. The other team is really at his mercy. He just puts it to them, night in and night out. It's an unbelievable thing that not too many can do in this league and he's able to."
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