SACRAMENTO, California: After seven straight losing seasons, there’s a new vibe surrounding in Sacramento. The Kings have opened the season with some impressive victories and added another one Thursday night.

DeMarcus Cousins had 22 points and 14 rebounds and Rudy Gay scored 20 points to help the Kings beat Chicago 103-88, snapping the Bulls’ six-game road winning streak.

A sellout crowd roared its approval, especially during the final three quarters when the Kings dominated, outscoring the highly-touted Bulls by 22 points. The Kings also own wins against San Antonio, Phoenix, the Clippers and Portland, which were all playoff teams last year.

Sacramento squandered big leads in its last three losses — Dallas (24), Memphis (26) and New Orleans (12) — but outscored the Bulls 23-20 in the fourth.

“We really didn’t want to give this one away, we’ve done that in three times before,” said Darren Collison, who had 17 points and 12 assists. “In a way it was good, those losses taught us a lesson. It was a learning experience for us.”

Although Cousins was dominant in the second half with 16 points, he got plenty of help. Reserve Omri Casspi scored 14 points, Ben McLemore had 11 and seldom-used Derrick Williams added 10 for the Kings, who never trailed after taking the lead in the second quarter.

“We got a gap in the middle of the second quarter where we got hurt,” Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau said. “The game was won there and we couldn’t get a handle on it the rest of the way.”

Jimmy Butler had 23 points and Taj Gibson, Mike Dunleavy and Aaron Brooks had 12 each for Chicago. Joakim Noah had 10 points and 11 rebounds despite foul trouble. The Bulls played the second game of a seven-game road trip, their longest of the season.

Chicago was trying to win its first seven road games for the first time in franchise history. Instead they joined the rest of the league with at least one road loss. The last team to start 7-0 on the road was San Antonio, which won its first eight road games in 2010-11.

“This was a team that manhandled the Clippers on the road a few days ago,” Kings coach Michael Malone said. “We held them to 59 points in the final three quarters. “That was a great defensive effort.”

The Kings held an 88-77 lead when Cousins left the game with his fifth foul with 7:26 left to play. But the frustrated Bulls could never get closer than eight points.

Clippers 110 Heat 93: In Miami, Chris Paul had 26 points and 12 assists, Blake Griffin added 26 points and the Los Angeles Clippers wasted no time in taking control on the way to a 110-93 win over the Miami Heat on Thursday night.

DeAndre Jordan scored 12 points — on six shots, all dunks — and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Clippers (7-4), who led 39-15 after one quarter.

Chris Bosh scored 28 for Miami (6-6), which has dropped three straight home games for the first time since March 3-8, 2011. Rookie reserve Shabazz Napier had a season-high 17 points.

Dwyane Wade missed his fourth consecutive game with a strained left hamstring. The Heat are 5-3 when Wade plays this season, 1-3 when he doesn’t.