Harden and Ivica Zubac each had a double-double as Los Angeles (18-23) extended its winning streak to five games.<\/p>\n
Harden added 10 assists and Zubac scored 16 and pulled down 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Jamal Shead had a double-double with 15 points and a career-high 13 assists, playing in place of Immanuel Quickley in Toronto’s (25-18) starting lineup.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes led the Raptors with 24 points and added seven rebounds and six assists. Brandon Ingram scored 19 points with six rebounds.<\/p>\n
Quickley missed the game with back spasms.<\/p>\n
Starting centre Jakob Poeltl (lower back strain) and swingman RJ Barrett (left ankle sprain) of Mississauga, Ont., were also unavailable.<\/p>\n
Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard, who helped Toronto win the 2019 NBA championship, was out with knee and ankle injuries.<\/p>\n
Clippers: Los Angeles trailed by as many as 14 points, but opened the fourth quarter on an 11-0 run to tie the game. The Clippers outscored Toronto 31-20 in that period and Harden took over in the extra period to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n
Raptors: Stiff defence from Toronto for most of the game led to 23 fast-break points, 10 more than the Clippers. It also made Harden go 2-for-15 from three-point range. But defensive lapses \u2014 especially on Harden \u2014 led to Toronto’s collapse.<\/p>\n
The Clippers ran an isolation play for Harden with the game tied 109-109 and time winding down but Shead played stifling defence, preventing the star from scoring and forcing overtime.<\/p>\n
Shead has had five or more assists in a career-high seven consecutive games (Jan. 5-16). His eight assists in the first half tied the most in any half this season.<\/p>\n
Toronto: Visits the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday to kick off a five-game road trip.<\/p>\n
L.A.: Visits the Washington Wizards for a matinee on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harden and Ivica Zubac each had a double-double as Los Angeles (18-23) extended its winning streak to five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-414997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414997","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=414997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}