{"id":369041,"date":"2025-12-24T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369041\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:02:08","slug":"clippers-128-108-rockets-24-dec-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369041\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers 128-108 Rockets (24 Dec, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 41 points and James Harden<\/a> added 29 as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Houston Rockets<\/a> 128-108 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Leonard shot 16 for 23 from the field and 4 for 5 from long distance as the Clippers won consecutive games for just the second time this season. Los Angeles was coming off a 103-88 win over the Lakers on Saturday that snapped a five-game skid. The Clippers also won consecutive games Oct. 24-26, against Phoenix and Portland.<\/p>\n

Harden, who shot 7 for 14 from the field and 3 for 8 from long distance, was helped by 12-for-13 shooting from the line.<\/p>\n

John Collins<\/a> and Kobe Sanders<\/a> added 13 points apiece and Kris Dunn<\/a> scored 11 for Los Angeles, which shot 54% (20 for 37) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 22 points on 8-for-15 shooting, and Alperen Sengun<\/a> finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds for Houston, which was 9 for 30 (30%) from long distance.<\/p>\n

Amen Thompson<\/a> added 19 points for Houston, and Jabari Smith<\/a> Jr. scored 16 for the Rockets, who have lost four of their last five games.<\/p>\n

The Clippers, who trailed by six points after one period, outscored Houston 34-23 in the second and led 63-58 at the break. The Rockets were helped by 10-for-22 shooting from 3-point range in the first half. Leonard had 18 points on 8-for-12 shooting in the opening quarters and Harden scored 11.<\/p>\n

Durant had 17 first-half points to lead the Rockets. Sengun scored 15 and Smith had 11.<\/p>\n

The Clippers led 98-82 after three periods.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Rockets: At Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Clippers: At Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 41 points and James Harden added 29 as the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369041","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=369041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}