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LOS ANGELES -- Jordan Farmar scored a career-high 30 points off the bench, making eight of 10 shots from 3-point range, and the Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on the absence of suspended Sacramento star DeMarcus Cousins to beat the Kings 126-122 Friday night. Jason Williams Jersey . Jodie Meeks made all eight of his shots and finished with 22 points, including three of the Lakers franchise-record 19 3-pointers on 27 attempts. Pau Gasol also scored 22, and newly acquired reserve MarShon Brooks had 23. The Lakers shot 60 per cent in a matchup of teams with the two worst records in the Western Conference. They have won the first three meetings against the Kings this season, with one remaining on April 2 at Sacramento. Los Angeles is a game behind the Kings in the conference standings and 1 1/2 behind Utah. The Lakers (20-39) must go 11-12 the rest of the way to avoid tying the 1974-75 squad for the worst record in a regulation season since the franchise relocated from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1960-61. Rudy Gay scored 32 points for the Kings, who squandered a 12-point lead before halftime and then blew a 15-point lead in the second half despite converting 17 Lakers turnovers into 25 points. Derrick Williams and Isaiah Thomas each had 27 points. First-year Sacramento coach Michael Malone used his 14th different starting lineup, with Williams making his first start since Feb. 2 and power forward Jason Thompson shifting to centre in Cousins spot. Cousins, who is averaging a team-high 22.3 points, received a one-game ban from the NBA on Thursday for punching Houston guard Patrick Beverley in the stomach during the Kings 129-103 home loss Tuesday night. Suspensions are nothing new to Cousins. Last season, the enigmatic four-year veteran with the hair-trigger temper was suspended two games by the league for confronting San Antonio TV analyst and former player Sean Elliott in a hostile manner on the court following the Spurs postgame show, because of some on-air remarks Elliott made criticizing Cousins for trash-talking with Tim Duncan. About a month later, Cousins was suspended one game for striking Dallas O.J. Mayo in the groin area. Cousins got into trouble again less than 1 1/2 weeks after that while the Kings were at Staples Center to play the Clippers. That night he shouted at Kings coach Keith Smart in the locker room during halftime, was benched for the rest of that game and then suspended two games for "unprofessional behaviour and conduct detrimental to the team." On New Years Day 2012, Cousins demanded a trade and was ordered by then-coach Paul Westphal to stay home for a game while the team was in New Orleans because of his "lack of commitment" to the organization. NOTES: The only other 30-point game for a Lakers player this season was by Nick Young, who had 31 on Jan. 20 in an overtime loss at Chicago. ... Lakers point guard Kendall Marshall played 19 scoreless minutes with 10 assists. ... The Kings came in averaging a league-worst 22.9 fouls. They were called for 16 against the Lakers. ... The Lakers are one of seven teams that have lost 20 or more games by double-digit margins. ... Sacramento will host Minnesota and New Orleans before going back on the road for seven straight games. ... The Lakers have won 16 of their last 20 against the Kings, with three of the losses coming in Sacramento. Jason Williams Magic Jersey . 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Paul George scored 21 points, Roy Hibbert added 19 and the Pacers used a dominant fourth quarter to blow out the Cavaliers 91-76 on Tuesday The Pacers (25-5) have won eight in a row over Cleveland, their longest active streak against any opponent.World Cup-winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stands as the only barrier to Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi extending their six-year domination of FIFAs player of the year award on Monday.Germanys Neuer is the latest third man on the shortlist trying to break the free-scoring superstars grip on footballs highest individual honour.Ronaldo edged Messi for the 2008 and 2013 prizes, and was runner-up in three of his great rivals four straight wins from 2009-12.No goalie has won since FIFA created its award in 1991, though the Germany and Bayern Munich No. 1s all-around skill and game awareness made him a standout in 2014.He has in recent years shaped how goalkeepers play like no one before him, Germany coach Joachim Loew told Bild daily this week.Still, despite leading Germany to World Cup victory, Neuer is seen as the outsider for the award because Ronaldo and Messi set more scoring records last year.Ronaldo got 61 goals for Real Madrid and Portugal, and his record tally of 17 in a Champions League season helped his club win a 10th European title.Messi set the career scoring records in the Champions League and Spains La Liga in November, just as national team captains and coaches and selected journalists were filling their Ballon dOr ballots.However, Messis teams won no trophies: Argentina lost the World Cup final, after its captain failed to score in four knockout rounds, while Barcelona was beaten by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League quarterfinals and for the Spanish title.Even Messis Golden Ball award for best player in Brazil surprised FIFA President Sepp Blatter.Neuer supporters include veteran coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, whose Switzerland team exited in the last-16 round after Messi created an extra-time goal for Angel Di Maria.Hes the prototype of a modern goalkeeper, and its about time that kind of player was selected for the award, the German coach said in an interview published by FIFA. 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The FIFA Ballon dOr, which merged with the original award presented since 1956 by France Football magazine, is the main honour in a lavish annual ceremony in Zurich.A Germany goalkeeper won the womens honour last year though Nadine Angerer is not nominated to defend her title on Monday.Five-time winner Marta of Brazil, United States forward Abby Wambach, who won the 2012 award, and Germany midfielder Nadine Kessler are on the shortlist.The contest brings Marta and Wambach to Zurich when both are supporting a discrimination lawsuit filed in Canada for FIFA allowing that country to stage the 2015 Womens World Cup on artificial turf pitches.In the mens coaching award, Loew is a strong contender against the two club coaches from Madrid: Italian Carlo Ancelotti for Real and Atleticos Diego Simeone from Argentina.The coaching award for womens football is contested between two men ¡ª Ralf Kellermann of Champions League winner Wolfsburg and Norio Sasaki, coach of Japans Asian Cup winner ¡ª and one woman, Maren Meinert, who guided Germany to win the Under-20 World Cup.Womens football can strike a notable win in the Puskas Award for most beautiful goal.Ireland forward Stephanie Roches goal in an amateur domestic league match for Peamount United is shortlisted for the fan-voted prize against World Cup goals by James Rodriguez for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie for the Netherlands against Spain.Roche has been supported by a heavy voting campaign in her home country to beat her star rivals.Blatter will make his first public appearance and speech at the ceremony since his FIFA executive committee colleague Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan declared on Tuesday as a candidate for the presidential election in May.The longtime FIFA chief will also make a personal presidential award and present a fair play prize. 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