The Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Jason Kidd scored 15 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, leading the New Jersey Nets to a 106-92 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.

Kidd, who had his best scoring night as a member of the Nets, also had nine assists and seven rebounds. Former UC star Kenyon Martin had 16 points and Kerry Kittles added 15 for New Jersey, which has won all four of its home games.

Elton Brand and Andre Miller each scored 20 to lead the Clippers.

Kidd started to find his scoring touch in the third quarter and took over the game in the fourth.

He scored 11 points as New Jersey opened the quarter on a 15-6 run that he capped with a trio of jump shots. After Miller responded with a basket to cut the Nets' lead to 92-86, Kidd fed Martin and Richard Jefferson for consecutive dunks that put the game out of Los Angeles' reach.

New Jersey led 33-26 after one quarter as Martin paced the attack with eight points. The Clippers, who trailed by as many as nine, clawed back to within four as Brand, who scored 13 points in the quarter, had consecutive baskets on a turnaround jumper and driving dunk to cut the deficit to 30-26 with 26.6 seconds remaining.

Rodney Rogers, logging extra minutes with Jefferson in early foul trouble, hit a 3-pointer with 6.3 seconds left to give the Nets their seven-point lead at the end of the quarter.

Jefferson picked up three fouls in first four minutes, hampering his chances for a bounce-back effort following the worst game of his career. Jefferson scored just one point Wednesday night in New Jersey's 99-93 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.

The momentum swung the Clippers' way in the second quarter as they outscored the Nets 30-16 to take a 56-49 lead at halftime. New Jersey held a 44-43 lead when Los Angeles went on a 13-5 run to close out the half.

The Clippers remained in control for the first half of the third quarter as they built a 66-58 lead. The Nets came roaring back to cut Los Angeles' advantage to 78-77 after three.

Kidd was New Jersey's catalyst, scoring 10 points in the comeback, including a reverse layup that pulled the Nets even at 75. He also had two assists and a steal in the spurt.

Magic 105, SuperSonics 98

ORLANDO, Fla. - Grant Hill had 27 points and nine assists, while Tracy McGrady was denied his third consecutive 40-point game but still scored 23 in Orlando's victory over Seattle.

McGrady hit a fall-away jumper as the shot clock expired late in the game, and he followed that with a three-point play on a fastbreak layup to give the Magic a 96-88 lead.

For the Sonics, Vladimir Radmanovic scored 20 points and pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds, while Gary Payton added 21 points and eight assists.

Brent Barry finished with 13 points after being hounded into a 4-for-12 shooting night. He came in as the NBA's fifth-most accurate shooter at 60.5 percent. Barry also missed six of eight 3-pointers. Seattle was 6-for-17 on 3s, continuing its woes. In its first loss of the season on Wednesday, the Sonics were 1-for-12.

The Sonics had kept Orlando's explosive offense bottled up for most of the night. But in the fourth quarter, the Magic scored 34 points behind 9-for-12 shooting from the field and 14 foul shots in 15 tries.

With McGrady misfiring early and no teammates picking up the slack, Seattle bolted out to a 12-point lead in the first quarter. Radmanovic's 3-pointer and jumper on successive possessions capped off a run of 13 unanswered points, putting the Sonics up 23-11.

But Hill, scoring 10 points in a 3:42 span, rallied the Magic to a 43-38 lead with four minutes remaining before the break.

From there, neither team could expand its lead to more than four until Mike Miller's 3-pointer with 7:03 left to play put Orlando up 84-79.

Pacers 107, Knicks 94

INDIANAPOLIS - Ron Artest scored 27 points and Brad Miller added 19 as Indiana defeated its longtime rival. The Pacers have won at least two games against New York in each of the last five seasons, including eight of the last nine at home.

Kurt Thomas' career-high tying 33 points kept the Knicks close, but Indiana guard Jamaal Tinsley, who scored 14 points and had 12 assists, hit two mid-range jumpers and a 3-pointer in the closing minutes.

Thomas, who made seven consecutive shots during one stretch, went cold at the wrong time. He rallied New York back from a 13-point halftime deficit, as he made consecutive baskets early in the fourth to cut it to 79-75.

With his back to the basket, Thomas pushed back Miller in the paint, spun around him and drew the foul. He missed the basket but sank both free throws to make it 82-79.

Then Tinsley took over.

He was only shooting 18 percent from the field this season but pounded his chest after hitting a 22-footer that pushed the lead back to nine. He banked in a leaning jumper as Indiana regained a double-digit lead and cruised the rest of the game.

Jermaine O'Neal scored 18 points, and Al Harrington added 14 for the Pacers. Alan Houston, Charlie Ward and Lee Nailon each scored 14 for the Knicks.

Artest, who scored 13 points in the first on 5-for-7 shooting, slammed a breakaway dunk after intercepting a pass by Howard Eisley for a 38-25 lead.

Artest had another steal late in the second quarter, this time off Ward. He tiptoed down the sideline in front of the Knicks' bench before regaining his footing and finished off the turnover with another basket. He finished just two points shy of his career high.

The Pacers pushed their lead to 71-54 in the third, but the Knicks ended the quarter on a 17-6 run. Ward scored the last five points of the run on a 3-pointer and a layup.

Sixers 108, Cavaliers 84

PHILADELPHIA - Keith Van Horn shot 4-for-4 from 3-point range and finished with 28 points as Philadelphia won its fourth consecutive game. All-Star guard Allen Iverson added 17 points and seven assists for the 76ers despite a sprained right thumb that nearly kept him on the sidelines.

Ricky Davis scored 31 points on 14-of-24 shooting for Cleveland, while Zydrunas Ilgauskas had 20.

News and notes

SHAQ RETURN SOON: Shaquille O'Neal expects to return to the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup in "one or two weeks" from the toe injury that has sidelined him since the start of the season. The All-Star center had surgery on his arthritic right big toe two months ago.

CARTER OUT: Toronto Raptors star Vince Carter will miss four weeks after re-injuring his left knee. Carter, hurt in a game against the Houston Rockets last Saturday, doesn't need surgery but must sit out to let his strained quadriceps tendon heal.

ANDERSON RESTING: Portland Trail Blazers guard Derek Anderson didn't make the team's four-game road trip as he recovers from a concussion that put him in the hospital. Two minutes into Wednesday's game against Memphis, Anderson fell hard under the Grizzlies' basket.

BACK AILS POLLARD: Sacramento Kings forward Scot Pollard will miss four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his lower back. An MRI on Thursday night confirmed the fracture, which kept Pollard out of the Kings' last three games.

BULLARD ENDS CAREER: Injured Hornets forward Matt Bullard, who hasn't joined the team since it moved to New Orleans this season, thinks his 11-year NBA career is over because of a bad back. "I can barely live a normal life, let alone the life of an NBA athlete," he said.

GRANT ON IL: The Orlando Magic placed forward-center Horace Grant on the injured list because his left knee hasn't healed from offseason surgery. Grant said last week he might be sidelined until December.