INDIANAPOLIS -- This is how it ends? The Kings' longest season-opening win streak since 1995-96, and the team that was playing two point guards together in the fourth quarter along with at least one other good ballhandler, Hedo Turkoglu or Doug Christie, and they go under looking like a pickup team? With Mike Bibby, the symbol of stoicism, slamming his hand on the scorer's table?

What gives? Besides the Kings, that is.

They gave until it hurt, as matter of fact, with 21 turnovers and one of the primary culprits, Bobby Jackson, needing X-rays and enough ice on his finger to satisfy a Gabor. They gave all the way Wednesday night until the Indiana Pacers had a 116-104 victory before 15,309 at Conseco Fieldhouse, despite 36 points from Peja Stojakovic. The Kings' four-game winning streak ended in a flurry of scattered offense as a veteran group wilted under the first real defensive pressure of the season.