INQUIRER Sports

EAST RUTHERFORD -- All-Star Vince Carter scored 29 points and Yi Jianlian added 22 Monday as the New Jersey Nets rallied for a 98-90 National Basketball Association victory over Sacramento.

Carter capped a 17-5 run with a free throw with 1:39 left in the game that put the Nets ahead 98-86.

He scored six points during the run and eight in the fourth quarter.

Yi, the Nets' 7-foot power forward from China, also collected a season-high 13 rebounds for New Jersey, who did most of their damage without guard Devin Harris.

Harris left the game late in the second quarter after aggravating a strained right hamstring.

He started the game but lacked his usual explosiveness and was unable to return after halftime with the Nets facing a double-digit deficit.

But New Jersey stormed back behind Yi, who scored 15 points in the second half, before Carter keyed the decisive sequence in the final minutes.

Keyon Dooling provided the dagger with a 3-pointer that gave New Jersey a 97-86 bulge with just 99 seconds remaining.

Sacramento's Kevin Martin scored 25 of his 36 points in a blistering first half. But he had little help from the rest of the Kings, who have lost nine of their last 10 games.