{"id":520088,"date":"2026-03-05T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:21:10","slug":"clippers-hand-pacers-7th-straight-loss-130-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520088\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers hand Pacers 7th straight loss, 130-107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pascal Siakam had 29 points in his return after sitting out three games with a left wrist sprain to lead Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 on 8-for-11-shooting, and the Los Angeles Clippers won their third in a row, 130-107 over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brook Lopez had 17 points for the Clippers while Darius Garland had 12 in his first home game since being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/clippers-cavaliers-trade-harden-garland-8caf2285682a2d1098759b9a2710e3b3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired in a trade<\/a> from the Cleveland Cavaliers last month.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Siakam had 29 points in his return after sitting out three games with a left wrist sprain to lead Indiana, but the Pacers lost their seventh in a row and fell to the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings with a 15-47 record.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Huff had 18 and was 4 of 8 on 3-pointers, and Jarace Walker finished with 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers led 42-25 after one quarter and 63-51 at halftime, with Leonard racking up 20 points. The Clippers pulled away with a 16-2 run in the third quarter to extend a seven-point lead to 21 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers shot 12.2 percentage points better from the field (55.1%) than the Pacers (42.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Norchad Omier had only one basket but according to the Clippers, became the first Nicaraguan to score in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers: At the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clippers: Visit San Antonio on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pascal Siakam had 29 points in his return after sitting out three games with a left wrist sprain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-520088","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\/520088","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=520088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}