Steve Blake finished with 12 assists, nine points and five rebounds. Blake, who has started all 14 games for the Lakers at point guard in place of the injured Steve Nash, has recorded double digits in assists in each of the last five.
Greivis Vasquez led Sacramento with 20 points.
At Oklahoma City, Kevin Durant scored 19 points and Serge Ibaka had 17 points and 11 rebounds to the Thunder extend its best season-opening start at home with a 95-73 win over the struggling Utah Jazz.
The Thunder (9-3) played without All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook, who sat out to rest his surgically repaired right knee.
Enes Kanter and Rudy Gobert led the Jazz (1-14), losers of six straight gaes, with 10 points apiece.
The Detroit Pistons sent the Brooklyn Nets to a fifth straight loss and sole possession of last place in the Atlantic Division with a 109-97 win, while Goran Dragic scored 23 points and Gerald Green added 20 to lead the Phoenix Suns over the Orlando Magic 104-96.