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SAN ANTONIO -- The Spurs still have no answer for Bonzi Wells.
And it turns out they might not have to.

The Spurs won Game 5 109-98 against the Kings despite 38 points from Wells, who received little help until late as San Antonio took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.

The San Antonio's trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili combined for 72 points. Kings small forward Ron Artest scored 14 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, while Kevin Martin was the only other King to score more than 11 points.

Down 80-68 to start the fourth quarter, the Kings opened with a 23-11 run to tie it, with Artest scoring 11 points and hitting five field goals after he had converted on just three shots through three quarters. But they couldn't manufacture late defensive stops. In the final three minutes, Duncan spun around Kings center Brad Miller for a layup, Bruce Bowen drove the lane for an underhanded layup, Ginobili streaked around Artest and through the paint for another bucket, and Duncan repeated his post act with 1:00 remaining for a 101-96 lead.
With two nail-biter games and two blowouts in the first four, much was different about this first half. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich started Robert Horry instead of big men Rasha Nesterovic or Nazr Mohammed, a move that gave the Kings more to worry about

on defense. And the Kings, who missed their first four shots and fell behind by as many as 10 early in the second quarter, had their first comeback of the series to lead 46-43 at halftime.

What remained the same was Wells, who scored 20 points by halftime on 7 of 10 shooting. The Spurs had jumped ahead by getting more than Duncan and Parker involved early. Bowen, who came in with a combined 15 points in four games, scored eight in the first half. Ginobili even found his way around Artest on occasion, hitting two field goals for six points.

And the Spurs even contained Wells for nearly four minutes, double-teaming every time the ball went his way. But after a dunk with 3:29 left marked his first field goal, he picked up the pace he'd kept for the past three games. He scored five straight points late in the second quarter, cutting the Spurs' lead to 18-17.

When Shareef Abdur-Rahim hit a 20-footer with four seconds left in the first, the Kings took their first lead with four seconds left. But Martin didn't defend Parker on the scramble to the other end, and he buried a buzzer-beating three-pointer from the top.

The shot sparked an 11-0 Spurs run that spilled into the second quarter, followed by a 12-2 Kings run capped by a Wells three-pointer. And Wells, of course, finished the job, too.

After his dunk put the Kings up 44-43, he took a charge from Parker, followed by an Artest layup with two seconds left.

The Spurs - who shot 57.4 percent (39 of 68) - opened the third quarter on a 17-8 run to lead 60-54, with Duncan, Parker and Ginobili scoring 14 of the points. After the Kings outrebounded the Spurs in the past three games, the Spurs had the edge, 40-30.