{"id":513412,"date":"2026-03-02T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:16:09","slug":"clippers-137-117-pelicans-2-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513412\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers 137-117 Pelicans (2 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 23 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 137-117 on Sunday night to end a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Tenth in the Western Conference, the Clippers improved to 28-31. The Pelicans are 13th in the West at 19-43.<\/p>\n

New Orleans star Zion Williamson<\/a> sat out after injuring his right ankle at Utah on Saturday night. He had played a career-high 35 straight games.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles never trailed. It led 43-32 after a quarter and had a 76-70 advantage at the half. It was 107-94 after three, and the Clippers stretched the margin to 26 in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Jordan Miller<\/a> added 19 points for Los Angeles. Derrick Jones Jr<\/a>. had 17, Brook Lopez<\/a> 16 and John Collins<\/a> 15.<\/p>\n

While Leonard went 1 of 7 from 3-point range, the Clippers were 17 of 36 overall. Lopez was 4 for 6, and Jones and Kobe Sanders<\/a> were each 3 for 4.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Fears<\/a> led New Orleans with 28 points, hitting 5 of 6 3-pointers. Derik Queen<\/a> scored 19 points, Dejounte Murray<\/a> had 17, and Trey Murphy III<\/a> added 16 after missing five games because of a right shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: At Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Clippers: At Golden State on Monday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 23 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-513412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513412","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=513412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}