Allen does it all

LOS ANGELES – Ray Allen surpassed a scoring milestone, and his defense on Kobe Bryant wasn’t bad, either.

Playing tight on the NBA’s leading scorer, Allen also got a hand from his Seattle teammates in holding Bryant to 22 points in the SuperSonics’ 120-113 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon.

Rashard Lewis scored 26 points and Allen had 19 points to top the 15,000-point plateau. He also added 10 rebounds and five assists.

Bryant finished 8 of 29 from the floor, including 2 of 13 from beyond the arc as he scored 13 points below his average this season. He also missed three long jumpers in the waning seconds as the Lakers tried to catch up.

“We knew he would get his shots; it’s just a matter of making him take tough shots, staying in his face and rebounding his misses,” Allen said. “I think we did as good of a job as you can do against him.”

Bryant guarded Allen most of the time, so Allen wanted to keep him running when the Sonics had the ball.

“I just tried to keep pressure on him offensively, because if he’s not working on one end of the floor, he can use more energy offensively,” Allen said. “So I just tried to keep him moving.”

Seattle coach Bob Hill said the Sonics’ had a plan for defending Bryant.

“We went into the game with the idea that Ray would try to push him to a certain part of the floor and there would be help there,” Hill explained. “I thought Ray did a good job of pushing him there and then our big guys were ready to at least make him take a jump shot.”

Bryant left the dressing room after the game without talking to reporters.

Chris Wilcox added 21 points for Seattle as each SuperSonics starter finished in double figures.