East Rutherford, N.J. ? The Detroit Pistons have become used to absorbing everyone else’s best shot as they’ve piled up win after win this season on the road. What they’re not accustomed to is missing so many shots.

Detroit had its NBA-best 11-game winning streak snapped by New Jersey, 91-84, Tuesday as Jason Kidd had 23 points and 12 rebounds for the Nets (23-20) and hit a big three-pointer in the final minute.

The Pistons (37-6) were led by Chauncey Billups’ 30 points but shot poorly throughout the game and were outworked by the Nets, who were coming off an 0-4 West Coast trip and wound up extending their home winning streak to nine games.

“We’ve won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don’t like to say you didn’t have it, but we didn’t have it tonight,” Detroit coach Flip Saunders said.

Despite shooting 37 percent from the floor, nine percentage points below their average, the Pistons still had a chance to take the lead late in the game after trailing since early in the third quarter.

Detroit's Rasheed Wallace, left, protects the ball from New Jersey's Richard Jefferson. The Nets snapped the Pistons' 11-game winning streak with a 91-84 victory Tuesday in East Rutherford, N.J.

The last of Billups’ six three-pointers pulled them to within a point at 85-84 moments after Kidd had fed Vince Carter for an alley-oop slam with 2:04 left. On New Jersey’s next possession, Nenad Krstic fumbled the ball out of bounds, but Detroit’s Tayshaun Prince was called for an offensive foul at the other end, and Kidd buried a three-pointer to make it 88-84.

“That same shot in Portland doesn’t go in,” Kidd said, referring to the Nets’ 88-83 loss Saturday in which they rallied from a 20-point deficit before losing. “This one does, and we win. That’s how funny this game is.”

Rasheed Wallace and Richard Hamilton, who average 37 points between them for Detroit, both suffered through bad shooting nights and never found their groove. Hamilton scored 19 but was 8-for-24 from the field, and Wallace scored nine on 3-for-14 shooting, including 1-for-11 from three-point range.

That left it up to Billups, who was perfect from three-point range but couldn’t do it all by himself as the Nets played their best defensive game after porous efforts in losses to Seattle, Portland and the Los Angeles Clippers.

“You have to tip your hat to Chauncey Billups, who makes unbelievable shots, but the thing that stood out was we defended for 48 minutes,” Nets coach Lawrence Frank said. “We were happy to beat such a good team, but at the same time we realize it’s just one game.”

Kings 98, Nuggets 91

Sacramento, Calif. – Ron Artest scored 19 in his home debut, Kevin Martin added a career-high 25, and Sacramento held on for its 19th straight home victory over Denver.

Mavericks 98, Bulls 94

Dallas – Dirk Nowitzki scored 21, the most important an open three-pointer that helped prevent a major second-half meltdown, sending Dallas past Chicago and stretching its season-best winning streak to nine.

Suns 123, 76ers 99

Philadelphia – Boris Diaw had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists for his first career triple-double, leading Phoenix.

Lakers 130, Knicks 97

New York – Kobe Bryant scored 40, despite making only one field goal in the second half, capping off his sensational month and leading Los Angeles over New York. The NBA’s leading scorer averaged 43.4 points in 13 games this month, highlighted by his 81-point outing that was the second-best scoring game in NBA history. He joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only players in NBA history to average 40 or more points in a month more than once.

Wizards 84, Pacers 79

Washington – Gilbert Arenas scored 20, and Antawn Jamison had 19 points and 18 rebounds to lead Washington.