Dominique’s Milestone Not Enough

Dominique Wilkins became the ninth player in NBA history to surpass 24,000 points in his career. His 37 against Golden State still weren’t enough for the Los Angeles Clippers.

Keith Jennings made six foul shots in the final 1:16 of overtime and Chris Mullin scored a season-high 32 points Monday night as the Warriors rallied to beat the Clippers 134-131.

Wilkins, coming off a season-high 42-point effort against the Lakers on Saturday night, reached the 24,000-point mark on a basket with 26.4 seconds left in overtime against the Warriors.

Jennings, who entered the game with a club-leading .827 free throw percentage, made his third pair of foul shots without a miss with 7.2 seconds to play to extend a one-point Golden State lead to three.

After a timeout, the Clippers inbounded at midcourt, and Gary Grant’s 3-point shot from the left corner went in-and-out of the basket. A desperation try by Wilkins at the buzzer also missed.

The Warriors never trailed in overtime. They went ahead for good on a layup by Latrell Sprewell with 1:39 left.

Jennings, who did not go to the free throw line until the overtime, said the plan was to make sure either he or Mullin had possession of the ball when the Clippers started to foul.

“I was just trying to get open real quick and run the clock down before they could foul me,” Jennings said. “I knew they were going to foul me because they were down. So I wanted to keep it in my hands or look for Mullin, because we were the best free throw shooters on the court.”

Wilkins added a 3-point shot after his milestone basket, which caused the game to be stopped for a few moments to acknowledge the nine-time All-Star’s latest achievement.

“I never knew anything about the record until I heard them announce it,” Wilkins said. “It was no big deal for me; just another day on the job.”

Wilkins made 16 of 27 field goal attempts, including 3-of-6 from 3-point range, and also had 10 rebounds. Ron Harper had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for the Clippers (27-52).

Chris Webber had 25 points and 15 rebounds and Billy Owens also had 25 points for the Warriors, who rallied from a 16-point deficit in the second quarter for their sixth straight victory.

The Warriors (48-31) are 17 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 1991-92 season, and the road victory, their 21st, assured them of a winning record away from home for only the second time in 18 years.

Webber scored the last points of regulation, making a reverse layup with 56 seconds left that tied the score 121-121.

After falling behind by as many as 16 points, the Warriors rallied with an 11-2 run in the final 1 1/2 minutes of the first half to narrow the gap to 64-59. The Clippers inbounded with 3.3 seconds left in the half, but Owens stripped the ball from rookie Charles Outlaw at midcourt and banked in a desperation 45-footer at the buzzer.

The Clippers made 24 of their first 35 field goal attempts and shot .644 percent in the half. But Outlaw’s blunder seemed to undermine the hard work they had done to that point.

“You look back on things, like a lucky bounce at the end of the half and a 3-pointer like that,” Warriors coach Don Nelson said. “You don’t think it’s that important at the time, but it really is. When you win an overtime game, that basket’s probably as important or more important than the others.”