{"id":433886,"date":"2026-01-26T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:24:27","slug":"kawhi-leonard-and-the-clippers-are-too-much-for-the-brooklyn-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433886\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are too much for the Brooklyn Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kawhi Leonard scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Clippers<\/a> built a 38-point lead in the second quarter and beat the Brooklyn Nets <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/bkn-vs-lac-0022500656\/box-score\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">126-89 on<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>James Harden scored 19 points, John Collins added 18, and Jordan Miller had 16. Ivica Zubac finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds as the Clippers, who were coming off a victory over the Lakers on Thursday, won for the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eighth time in nine games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Wolf scored 14 points and Egor Demin had 12 for the Nets, who shot 28% in the first half and 34% (29 for 86) overall, including 21% (nine for 43) from three-point range. Brooklyn lost its fourth straight and has dropped 10 of its last 11 games and 13 of 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets were coming off a double-overtime loss on Friday to the Boston Celtics, who are in second place in the Eastern Conference. Two days earlier, Brooklyn was beaten 120-66 by the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers charged to a 24-point lead in the first quarter and extended their advantage to 38 points in the second, carrying a 68-37 lead into the break. Los Angeles maintained its lopsided advantage in the third quarter and was ahead 96-66 headed into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>It was another lopsided win for the Clippers over the Nets in Los Angeles. When the teams met in L.A. on Jan. 15, 2025, the Clippers won 126-67, and the 59-point margin of victory is the only 50-point win for the Clippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half as the Clippers built a 38-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-433886","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\/433886","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=433886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}