Phoenix Suns (4-5, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (3-5, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Saturday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles looks to stop its three-game slide when the Clippers play Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles finished 50-32 overall and 9-7 in Pacific Division play a season ago. The Clippers allowed opponents to score 108.2 points per game and shoot 46.1% from the field last season.<\/p>\n
Phoenix finished 36-46 overall, 9-7 in Pacific Division action and 12-29 on the road last season. The Suns averaged 7.2 steals, 4.8 blocks and 13.2 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Suns won 115-102 in the last matchup on Nov. 7. Jalen Green led the Suns with 29 points, and Ivica Zubac led the Clippers with 23 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Kobe Sanders: day to day (knee), Jordan Miller: day to day (hamstring), Kawhi Leonard: day to day (injury management), James Harden: day to day (personal).<\/p>\n
Suns: Dillon Brooks: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (4-5, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (3-5, 12th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[123075,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-267364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-123075","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}