{"id":243439,"date":"2025-10-27T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243439\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:05:08","slug":"kawhi-leonard-finishes-with-30-points-in-clippers-win-over-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243439\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard finishes with 30 points in Clippers’ win over Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> had 30 points and 10 rebounds and the Clippers<\/a> beat Portland 114-107<\/a> on Sunday night in the Trail Blazers\u2019 second game since head coach Chauncey Billups was arrested<\/a> on gambling charges.<\/p>\n

Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier were among those arrested<\/a> Thursday for what federal law enforcement officials described as their involvement in illicit gambling activities. Billups was charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games.<\/p>\n

The NBA placed Billups and Rozier on leave following their arrests. Assistant coach Tiago Splitter is serving as Portland\u2019s interim head coach.<\/p>\n

Down 60-55 at the half, the Clippers outscored Portland 32-22 in the third quarter to take an 87-82 lead. Leonard, James Harden and Ivica Zubac each had nine points in the period.<\/p>\n

Zubac finished with 21 points and eight rebounds. Harden had 20 points and 13 assists \u2014 along with seven turnovers. John Collins scored 16 points.<\/p>\n

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The Clippers improved to 2-1, following an opening loss at Utah and home victory over Phoenix. The Clippers are 19-2 against Portland since the start of the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 23 points. Jrue Holiday had 21, Shaedon Sharpe 19 and Jerami Grant 17.<\/p>\n

Portland played its first road game of the season. It opened with a loss to Minnesota under Billups, then beat Golden State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard had 30 points and 10 rebounds and the Clippers beat Portland 114-107 on Sunday night in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,145111,145109,145110,10225,145113,1172,1173,1175,590,145112,321,7640,10227,161,85,7642,10593],"class_list":["post-243439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-billup","tag-billups","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-illicit-gambling-activity","tag-ivica-zubac","tag-james-harden","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-nba","tag-opening-loss","tag-point","tag-portland","tag-rebound","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-trail-blazers","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}