LOS ANGELES - Elton Brand scored 31 points on 12-for-14 shooting to help the Los Angeles Clippers beat Orlando 116-91 on Sunday night, snapping the Magic's seven-game winning streak. Tim Thomas added 20 points on 5-for-7 3-point shooting for the Clippers.

Los Angeles won for just the second time in eight games, rebounding from a 97-88 home loss to the Lakers on Saturday night. It was the Clippers' biggest victory margin of the season, and the Magic's worst losing margin.

Dwight Howard had 16 points and Hedo Turkoglu added 15 for the Magic, which had its roughest night by far on what had been a stellar road trip.

Orlando (13-5), which still has the best record in the Eastern Conference, was 3-0 on the current trip and had won four straight on the road overall. The Magic have lost just twice in 12 games.

The Clippers led by 17 at halftime, and the Magic were within single digits just twice in the second half.

Corey Maggette added 17 points and Sam Cassell had 13 for the Clippers, who shot 60.3 percent from the field.

Brand, who had 17 points in the first quarter and 21 in the first half, hit jumpers from all over the floor and finished two points short of his season high.

Orlando opened the second half with a 14-5 run, capped by Darko Milicic's dunk off Grant Hill's assist, to cut it to eight at 71-63.

But Thomas then made 3-pointers at both ends of a 14-6 run that put the Clippers up 16 at 85-69 with 3:33 to go in the third quarter.

It was never close in the fourth quarter.

Cassell hit a running jumper with 5:48 to play that put the Clippers up 19 and Brand made a free throw to take the lead to 20.

Cassell, the Clippers' leading scorer, was left out of the starting lineup for the first time since opening night.

He came into a close game late in the first quarter and quickly took control.

Cassell had three assists and four points in an 18-11 run to open the second quarter as the Clippers took a 15-point lead 53-38 with 5:58 to play in the half.

Brand hit a 16-foot jumper with 2:10 to play to give the Clippers an 18-point lead, their biggest of the half.