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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Rudy Gay and the Sacramento Kings were glad to benefit from a rare bit of good fortune.Gay had 23 points and nine rebounds, and the Kings beat Toronto 102-99 on Sunday night after waiting out a video review to see if the Raptors had forced overtime on Terrence Ross 3-pointer at the buzzer.Following a timeout with 2.4 seconds left, Ross grabbed a deflected pass, took two dribbles and made a 33-footer -- but the officials ruled time had expired.Official Mike Callahan said a replay review showed the clock didnt start when DeMarcus Cousins deflected the ball. The actual elapsed time was 2.5 seconds, resulting in no basket and a celebration at Golden 1 Arena.Ive got to hear another explanation better than that because we reviewed it about 10 times in there, Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. Even if the clock started once DeMarcus Cousins deflected it, T-Ross caught it, shot it, and still had shot it at .5 (seconds) with plenty of time.The only explanation the Kings cared about was the disputed shot didnt count.We never get these kinds of breaks, Gay said. It felt good to get off the court and celebrate this win.While the Kings were ecstatic, the Raptors bemoaned their fate.Im going to save my money and say no comment, Kyle Lowry said.The NBAs scoring leader, DeMar DeRozan was defended tightly by Gay for much of the game and missed 12 of 15 shots while finishing with a season-low 12 points for Toronto.The Kings snapped a four-game losing streak and beat the Raptors for the second time this season. DeRozan, who entered averaging 33 points per game, missed all eight shots and had three second-half points as Toronto was outscored 44-36.We gave up 36 in the second half. Thats fantastic, because the first half wasnt so nice defensively, Kings coach Dave Joerger said.Sacramento defeated Toronto for the second time this season. In the first meeting, DeRozan shot 7 of 20 and had 23 points. He has reached 30 points in 10 of 13 games this season.I can say it was a bad shooting night or I could be humble and say that I played good defense, said Gay, an ex-teammate of DeRozans. Hes a friend of mine.Lowry had nine of his 25 points in the fourth quarter and finished with eight assists and seven turnovers. Jonas Valanciunas added 23 points and 14 rebounds, DeMarre Carroll scored 17 points, and Patrick Patterson 11.Cousins had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Kings. Darren Collison added 15 points and nine assists, and Aaron Afflalo scored 14. Sacramento had dropped eight of 10.Lowry made two free throws to cut the Kings lead to 102-99. A shot-clock violation gave the ball back to Toronto for one more possession.Collison converted a three-point play to break a 97-all tie with just more than 3 minutes remaining. He found Gay for a dunk off a fast break, giving the Kings a 102-97 lead with 1:37 left.TIP-INSRaptors: Reserve center Lucas Nogueira was back with the team after missing Thursdays game to be with his wife, who gave birth to a baby girl. ... Valanciunas had 19 points in the opening half and benefited from Cousins being in foul trouble.Kings: The struggling Kings went to a smaller lineup, moving Matt Barnes and Collison into the starting lineup. The results were mixed, and Toronto led 36-28 after one quarter. ... The Kings are 17-3 at home against the Raptors.UP NEXTRaptors: Face the Clippers on Monday in Los Angeles.Kings: Host star guard Russell Westbrook and Oklahoma City on Wednesday. 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Fun fact: Athletes at the ancient Olympic Games -- the ones held in Greece over a millennium ago -- competed in the nude?because part of the point of the games was to celebrate the human form.Sounds very, uh, naturalistic. But at some point people figured out that theyd never score a sneaker contract or an endorsement deal by competing in their birthday suits, so Olympic uniforms were born.And that has always posed a problem, at least from a design standpoint. Most Olympic athletes will only compete over the course of a few days (or, in some cases, a few minutes), so theres no time for small details or subtle nuances to sink in the way they would over the course of a long sports season. Thats why the trend at recent Olympiads has been toward bold designs that make a strong visual impact. Get in, boom, get out.Look back a bit further in Olympic history, however, and youll see all sorts of uni-related anomalies and curiosities. With that in mind, here are a dozen key moments in Olympic apparel history, some of which may surprise you.1. USA basketball team photo, 2008. Sometimes a bellwether uniform moment takes place off the field -- or in this case, off the court. No single episode has captured the modern commingling of the Olympics, uniforms and corporate influence like the 2008 American basketball squads team portrait, where Team USAs outfitter, Nike, arranged things so coach Mike Krzyzewski just happened to be positioned with his foot obscuring Dwight Howards Adidas sneakers. Howard appeared to be getting a bit of revenge by having his hand over the Nike logo on his shorts. Hey, its all part of the Olympic movement, right?The incident was echoed in the photo of this years Team USA roster:2. Michael Johnson, 1996. These days we take it for granted that most of the top athletes will have flashy footwear. But that wasnt the case 20 years, ago, when American sprinter Michael Johnson broke out a set of custom-designed Nike spikes rendered in glittering gold for the Summer Games in Atlanta. The gold extended beyond his shoes, as Johnson won the 200- and 400-meter races.3. Abebe Bikila, 1960, and Zola Budd, 1984. Then again, who needs a flashy shoe design when youre not wearing shoes to begin with? Abebe Bikila, an Ethiopian long-distance runner, won the gold in the marathon at the 1960 Games in Rome while running barefoot. Two dozen years later in Los Angeles, South African runner Zola Budd went barefoot while famously colliding with American rival Mary Decker in the 3,000 meters.4. Cathy Freeman, 2000. For generations, the traditional thinking about performance sportswear was that athletes got faster and faster as they wore less and less. But Nike turned that logic on its head at the 2000 Games in Sydney, where Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman wore more. While her competitors competed in the standard tank tops and shorts, Freeman donned an aerodynamically designed full-body unitard -- a swift suit, Nike called it. It may have been counterintuitive, but it worked: Freeman won the gold in the 400 meters.5. The Australian womens basketball team, 1996-2008. Freeman isnt the only female Australian athlete who has raised eyebrows with a one-piece uniform. The Aussie womens hoops team wore an unconventional unitard format at four Olympiads (Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004, and Beijing in 2008), winning a bronze and three silvers over that span. Despite that record of success, the team reverted to the more traditional tank top and shorts in 2012.6. Ibtihaj Muhammad, 2016. We had to include one entry from Rio, and it was an easy choice. Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American fencer, has become the first Team USA Olympian to compete while wearing a hijab -- which makes her a good symbol of Americas diversity, especially at a time when Muslim-Americans have become something of a political football. (Footnote: She won the bronze.)7. Martin Sheridan, 1908. It seems safe to say that its been a long time since any athletes keptt sock garters in their lockers.dddddddddddd For one thing, modern stretch fabrics keep socks from falling down. For another, sock garters look, you know, seriously dorky. But that didnt keep Martin Sheridan from wearing them while winning the gold medal in the discus throw at the 1908 Games in London.8. Kerri Strug, 1996. No protective or rehabilitative gear worn by any athlete has ever seemed as significant as the ankle wraps worn by American gymnast Kerri Strug at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. After spraining her ankle on her first vault attempt, she injured it further while sticking the landing for her second vault, which helped clinch the gold for Team USA. With Strugs injured leg wrapped and secured in a protective boot, coach Béla Károlyi carried her to the medal podium, where she stood on one leg alongside her teammates, the bandages and boot serving as a potent symbol of her Olympic spirit.9. Muhammad Ali, 1960. As the world says goodbye to Muhammad Ali this year, its worth remembering that he looked very sharp indeed at the 1960 Olympics in Rome (when he was still known as Cassius Clay), winning the light-heavyweight gold medal while wearing USA trunks and a sash-style tank top. If you check out the old photos, his opponents look positively slovenly by comparison. Even as a teenager, The Greatest had his opposing fighters outclassed before they even stepped into the ring. (As an aside, Ali kept wearing those USA trunks for several of his early professional bouts.) 10. Vasily Alekseyev, 1972-1980. There are lots of Olympic sports where the athletes show a lot of skin -- synchronized diving and beach volleyball, for example, are often done in tiny swimsuits. But never has a uniform seemed skimpier than when the great Soviet weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev strapped on his singlet, which looked like it was designed for a much narrower man.11. The Norwegian curling team, 2010. Weve been focusing on the Summer Olympics here, because the 2016 Summer Games are currently taking place in Rio, but its worth dipping into the Winter Games to take a look at the Norwegian curling teams pants. Not only did the pants cause a sensation at the 2010 Vancouver Games, but they also garnered as much publicity for their manufacturer, Loudmouth Golf, as they did for the Norwegians (who won the silver medal while sporting the outlandish designs, by the way). By the time of the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014, the Norwegians had inked an endorsement deal with Loudmouth and garish pants had become popular at amateur curling rinks around the world. Love em or hate em, the pants are a textbook case of modern sports apparel branding.12. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968. No discussion of Olympic attire would be complete without a mention of the black gloves worn on the medal podium by American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who won the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200 meters at the 1968 Games in Mexico City. As they stood on the podium and The Star-Spangled Banner began to play, they raised their black-gloved fists in what was widely interpreted as a black power gesture (although Smith later said in his autobiography that it was actually a human rights salute). In addition, Smith, Carlos, and silver medalist Peter Norman from Australia all wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges on their track jackets during the medal ceremony.Paul Lukas stubbornly wears plain black pants while curling but appreciates how the Loudmouth pants have helped to popularize the sport. If you like how this retrospective turned out, youll probably like Lukas Uni Watch Blog, plus you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Want to learn about his Uni Watch Membership Program, be added to his mailing list so youll always know when a new column has been posted or just ask him a question? Contact him here. ' ' '