Danny Granger Leads Pacers Over the Hawks Danny Granger scored 24 points to break out of a shooting slump in the Indiana Pacers" 96-84 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night. Roy Hibbert added 12 points and 11 rebounds, and David West and Lance Stephenson also had 12 points each to help the Pacers improve to 7-3 and remain undefeated in four games at home. Indiana won for just the second time in its last 11 games against the Hawks. Josh Smith led Atlanta with 16 points, Joe Johnson had 15, Zaza Pachulia 11 and Willie Green 10. The Hawks dropped to 7-4. Granger was 9 of 16 from the field, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range. Granger and Hibbert scored all the points as the Pacers, up by 53-50 at the half, put together a 16-2 run in the third quarter for a 71-54 cushion with 5 minutes 7 seconds to go in the period. Indiana pushed the lead to 24 points during the final quarter. KINGS 98, RAPTORS 91 Tyreke Evans scored a season-high 29 points while DeMarcus Cousins had 21 points and a career-high 19 rebounds as Sacramento snapped a seven-game losing streak in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas scored 12 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, and Jimmer Fredette had 10 for the Kings, who had not win in Toronto since Feb. 22, 2004. The Kings had lost two straight and four of five coming in, but held on to record their first road victory in five tries. Leandro Barbosa came off the bench to score a season-high 24 points for the Raptors, who have lost four of five. DeMar DeRozan and Jose Calderon each had 13 for the Raptors. ROSE SIDELINED The 2011 most valuable player, Derrick Rose, was ruled out of the Chicago Bulls" game Wednesday night against the Washington Wizards because of a sprained left big toe. Rose hurt the toe during the first quarter Tuesday night in a win at Minnesota but stayed in the game. He scored a season-high 31 points against the Timberwolves and is averaging 20.7 points and 8.6 assists during the Bulls" 9-2 start. Chicago also was without the injured guards Richard Hamilton (groin) and C. J. Watson (elbow) Wednesday for its third game in three nights. Earlier Wednesday, the Bulls signed the veteran guard Mike James for depth. John Lucas III was slated to start at point guard in Rose's place. SPURS WAIVE DIOGU The San Antonio Spurs waived the former lottery pick Ike Diogu and signed forward Malcolm Thomas from the N.B.A."s development league. Diogu played sparingly in two games after being signed Jan. 3.