INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin did just a bit of everything against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n
In just his third game in red and blue after being traded to LA from the Indiana Pacers, the 23-year-old notched 38 points with three steals off the bench to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a 115-114 win over Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets.<\/p>\n
Jokic \u2014 despite dropping a double-double with 22 points and 17 rebounds \u2014 was not himself at Intuit Dome. The three-time MVP committed a game-high six turnovers, missed all six of his 3-point attempts and picked up five fouls. The Clippers exploited him, complementing Mathurin with signature performances from Kawhi Leonard and Derrick Jones Jr.<\/p>\n
Jones Jr. set a new season high with 22 points with some clutch buckets down the stretch. LA clinched the win after Denver guard Jamal Murray missed the would-be game-tying free throw with under one second remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n
After a busy trade deadline, the Clippers appear to be headed in a new direction. Reporter Kasey Kazliner covered the intense matchup and analyzed the Clippers\u2019 critical win on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin did just a bit of everything against the Denver Nuggets. In just his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,5644,10225,248501,148996,1662,15506,108651,3901,248498,248500,1175,248499,17932,241034,7236,590,248502,3906,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-491977","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-bennedict-mathurin","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-clippers-nuggets","13":"tag-clips","14":"tag-denver-nuggets","15":"tag-derrick-jones-jr","16":"tag-intuit-dome","17":"tag-jamal-murray","18":"tag-kasey-kazliner","19":"tag-kaseykazliner","20":"tag-kawhi-leonard","21":"tag-kazliner","22":"tag-la-clippers","23":"tag-lac","24":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-nba-la","27":"tag-nikola-jokic","28":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491977","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=491977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}