Blake Griffin scored 36 points, Chris Paul added 29, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Lakers, 115-104, on Saturday, giving coach Doc Rivers his 800th career victory.

J.J. Redick added 19 points for the Clippers, who moved within a game of the idle Jazz for the No. 4 playoff seed in the West.

‘‘I like this team and I'm going to keep saying that,’’ he said. ‘‘I think we have proven, especially in the big games, when we’re healthy, we play very well.’’

Rivers became the 15th coach in NBA history with 800 victories. Only Gregg Popovich of San Antonio (1,146) has more among active coaches.

‘‘What I've learned most as a coach is persistence and patience,’’ Rivers said before the game. ‘‘Patience with the players and myself. As a young coach you have a tendency to overreact to everything and change everything. I've learned not to sweat everything.’’

The Clippers have won three in a row and seven of nine.

The series between the Staples Center co-tenants has been dominated by the Clippers of late. They’ve won 18 of 20 since the start of the 2012-13 season.

Rookie David Nwaba scored 19 points and Brandon Ingram had 10 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter for the Lakers. They have lost 18 of 20 since the All-Star break.

D’Angelo Russell, the team’s leading scorer at 15.7 points per game, had 2 on 1-of-9 shooting while missing six 3-point attempts.

The Clippers allowed the Lakers to hang around in the fourth, forcing all their starters back in after they led by 21 points at the start. Tarik Black’s dunk cut the Lakers’ deficit to 8 with 2:52 to play.

But Griffin and Paul combined to score the Clippers’ final 7 points.

‘‘Our key is going to be in the last six minutes of the game,’’ Rivers said. ‘‘We’re going to have to execute offensively. We’re going to have to be a team that when we need a stop, we can get a stop. There’s times that we can do that and then there’s times I'm not sure we can.’’

The Lakers scored the first 9 points of the fourth to trail, 93-81. Nwaba scored 4 in a row and Ingram had the next 5 points. The action bogged down while three plays were reviewed.

The Clippers dominated the third, turning a 5-point lead into 21. Paul had 12 assists, and DeAndre Jordan grabbed 12 rebounds.

Kings 123, Timberwolves 117 — Buddy Hield tied a career high with 22 points, going 4 of 6 from 3-point range as visiting Sacramento got 66 points from its bench in a victory over Minnesota.

Reserve point guard Ty Lawson had 21 points and 11 assists. Langston Galloway added 17 points and Aaron Afflalo scored 16 off the bench as the Kings recovered after losing by 28 points a night earlier at New Orleans against former Sacramento star DeMarcus Cousins.

Playing its fifth game in seven nights, Sacramento shot a season-high 56.4 percent to win for the sixth time in 15 games since trading Cousins on Feb. 21.

Andrew Wiggins scored 32 points for Minnesota, which had won five of its previous six homes games. A game after scoring a career-high 33 points, Ricky Rubio had 11 points on just 1-of-10 shooting, and added 13 assists.

Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Timberwolves.

Bulls 106, Hawks 104 — Jimmy Butler scored 33 points and hit two free throws with 2.1 seconds left to lift host Chicago over Atlanta. Butler scored the Bulls' final 9 points.

Chicago won its third in a row and stopped a seven-game losing streak to Atlanta.

Nets 121, Magic 111 — Brook Lopez scored 30 points, Trevor Booker had a season-high 23, and Brooklyn defeated Orlando in New York.

Sean Kilpatrick added 15 points for the Nets, who snapped a two-game losing streak.