James Harden set a Los Angeles Clippers record with 55 points in the team’s 131-116 victory against the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old guard surpassed the previous Clippers record of 52 points in a game, which had been jointly held by Bob McAdoo and Charles Smith.<\/p>\n
Harden’s efforts helped the Clippers improve their record to five wins and 11 losses this season, and he said: “The work I put in individually, I do it for the entire team. I’m just trying to find ways to win games.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the NBA on Saturday, Nikola Jokic put in a fine individual performance of his own, but the Serb’s 44 points could not prevent the Denver Nuggets losing 128-123 to the Sacramento Kings – who ended their eight-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Detroit Pistons remain top of the Eastern Conference, having extended their winning run to 12 games – their best sequence since 2004 – with a 129-116 victory against Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n
But the Washington Wizards slipped to a 14th consecutive defeat, losing 121-120 to the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden set a Los Angeles Clippers record with 55 points in the team’s 131-116 victory against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-303122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303122","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=303122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}