SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AFP) - The Utah Jazz held on for a 123-115 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday to pull even in their National Basketball Association playoff series.

Deron Williams scored 29 points with 14 assists for the Jazz, who blew a sizeable fourth-quarter lead but eked out the overtime triumph to knot the best-of-seven Western Conference second-round series at two games apiece.

Later Sunday in San Antonio, the reigning NBA champion Spurs were seeking to level their Western Conference series against the New Orleans Hornets at 2-2.

Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili combined for 62 points in a 110-99 victory on Thursday that kept the Spurs out of a 3-0 hole.

In Salt Lake City, newly crowned NBA Most Valuable Player Kobe Bryant was clearly struggling much of the game with a sore back.

He scored 33 points but managed just eight in the fourth quarter and overtime for the Lakers, who host game five on Wednesday.

Williams' most important assist of the game went to Andrei Kirilenko, who converted a three-point play to make it 115-110 with 35 seconds left.

The Lakers had erased a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter, Lamar Odom's putback tying the game with 4.6 seconds left.

They were never able to gain the upper hand in overtime, however.

The Lakers were without French forward Ronny Turiaf for much of the contest after he was ejected for a flagrant foul on Jazz guard Ronnie Price with more than 10 minutes left in the second quarter.

While driving toward the basket, Price was thrown to the floor by Turiaf and suffered an ugly cut just above his right eye, a gash needing four stitches.