{"id":275848,"date":"2025-11-11T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:05:09","slug":"vit-krejci-scores-career-high-28-points-as-atlanta-hawks-send-los-angeles-clippers-to-fifth-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275848\/","title":{"rendered":"Vit Krejci scores career-high 28 points as Atlanta Hawks send Los Angeles Clippers to fifth straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Vit Krejci<\/a> scored a career-high 28 points off the bench, Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> added 20 and the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> opened a four-game road trip with a 105-102 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Jalen Johnson<\/a> had 16 points and 10 rebounds as the Hawks overcame a 17-point deficit to win consecutive games for the second time this season. Krejci made a career-best eight 3-pointers in 10 attempts.<\/p>\n

Porzingis (illness) and Johnson (quad) both returned after missing Sunday\u2019s 20-point home victory over the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, while Trae Young<\/a> (knee) and Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> (back) remained out.<\/p>\n

James Harden<\/a> had 35 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in the Clippers\u2019 fifth straight loss. Ivica Zubac<\/a> added 13 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Derrick Jones Jr.<\/a> and Kris Dunn<\/a> each scored 11 points for the Clippers, who were without star Kawhi Leonard<\/a> (ankle) for a fourth consecutive game, while Bradley Beal<\/a> (hip) was ruled out.<\/p>\n

Krejci\u2019s biggest 3-pointer came with 36 seconds remaining and gave the Hawks a 105-98 lead. Harden converted a four-point play with 25 seconds remaining to get the Clippers within a possession but missed a game-tying 3-point attempt with 12 seconds left.<\/p>\n

The Clippers led 36-19 early in the second quarter before the Hawks erased the deficit with a 20-3 run to take a 42-41 lead with 4:09 remaining before the half. Krejci made four 3-pointers in the run, including three consecutive at one point.<\/p>\n

The game was tied at 52 at halftime after Krejci made six of Atlanta\u2019s seven 3-pointers over the first two quarters. The Hawks pushed in front 79-76 after three quarters.<\/p>\n

Harden tied the score 92-92 with 5:01 remaining on consecutive 3-pointers before another 3-pointer from Krejci put the Hawks up 95-92 with 4:25 remaining. Harden scored 19 points in the fourth quarter on 6-of-10 shooting and 4 of 7 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Hawks: At the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Clippers: Host the Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Wednesday<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

Doug Padilla, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Vit Krejci scored a career-high 28 points off the bench, Kristaps Porzingis added 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-275848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275848","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=275848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}