Bobby Jackson scored five points within the very last minute, leading the Sacramento Kings to a 91-89 preseason victory in Beijing on Sunday over Yao Ming's Houston Rockets in the NBA's second China game.

Jackson's 3-pointer sent the all audiences into ovation as the Kings tied it 89-89 with 1:10 remaining on the clock.
  
The reserved guard, who led the team's scoring with totally 13 points, then beat the shot clock with a baseline jumper to make it 91-89 with 6.7 seconds to go.
  
Houston's Reece Gaines couldn't find space to shoot as he was suffocated by solid defense of the Kings in the dying seconds.
  
"Bobby struggled on shots today, but he made good shot down the stretch to win the game and he is the one who likes to do it," said Sacramento's coach Rick Adelman at a press conference after the game.
 
"Both sides played hard but we made that shots to win the game," commented Bobby.
  
Yao Ming had 13 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, one block but 5 turnovers for the Rockets in a 27-minute show-up before the passionate 17,900 fans of Beijing, the city where he spent more than six months a year before entering NBA in 2002.
  
Houson's Juwan Howard was the game's top scorer with 15 points, Tracy McGrady, the NBA's two season top scorer, added 14 besides 4 boards and 4 assists.
  
Chris Webber scored 12 points for Sacramento, including 10 out of 24 points for the Kings in the first quarter, while Brad Miller  shouldered with Jackson as the Kings' leading scorers with 13. Peja Stojakovic, Kevin Martin and David Bluthenthal added 10 points each.
  
Yao's former teammate at the Shanghai Sharks, Liu Wei failed to repeat the flying performance in his NBA debut in Shanghai on Thursday when the Rockets squeezed past the Kings 88-86.
  
The China's latest NBA hopeful, who was called to the Kings' training camp after the Olympics in Athens, failed to score a point in 10 minutes on the court, attempting to shoot once and having rebound and steal each.
  
Houston's coach Jeff Van Gundy said: "we lost energy after second quarter because of turnovers, and that's the problem to everybody today. They were quicker than us on the second half."
  
Yao had 8 points in the first quarter, leading the Rockets to edge the Kings 26-24.
  
The Chinese 2.26-meter center got on the board in the fourth minute with a layup, then added two more points before substituted by Juwan Howard with three minutes and 50 seconds left in the quarter.
  
He returned three and a half minutes into the second quarter and racked up five more points in eight minutes, helping the Rockets to build up a 45-35 lead before the Kings cut the deficit to 48-47 on a 12-3 run. 

(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2004)