{"id":435090,"date":"2026-01-26T21:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435090\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:39:11","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-kawhi-leonards-surge-leads-fan-to-eat-words-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435090\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers, Kawhi Leonard’s surge leads fan to eat words — literally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Clippers defeated the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 126-89 Sunday night, capping off a 15-3 stretch dating back to December. For one fan, it meant he had to eat his words — literally.<\/p>\n

Clippers coach Ty Lue said on Dec. 20 that he told the team their goal was to go 35-20 in their remaining games. At the time, they had a 6-21 record. Robert Flom, managing editor of the independent Clippers blog 213Hoops responded to Lue\u2019s proposition by writing on X: \u201cIf they go 15-3 in any stretch this season will print and eat this tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Clippers facing a Nets team on Sunday that had won two games this calendar year, fans remembered Flom\u2019s post. The Clippers did, too, replying on X as soon as the final buzzer sounded and sharing a photo taken at Intuit Dome of the printed post.<\/p>\n

Flom stayed true to his word, saying that he would indeed eat a printout of his post during a podcast episode Monday evening. Lue had a message for Flom postgame: \u201cHe\u2019s got to go live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 10-3 in January, the best record in the NBA in that span. The surge has coincided with Kawhi Leonard<\/a> finding his rhythm. He has scored at least 20 points in 24 consecutive games, a career-high streak, and finished with 28 points against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Leonard expressed concern for Flam, saying \u201cI don\u2019t know how healthy that is for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

LA now holds a 21-24 record, good for 10th in the Western Conference — a sharp turnaround from when Lue set the goal and Flom\u2019s bet seemed far-fetched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Clippers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 126-89 Sunday night, capping off a 15-3 stretch dating back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,75910,75911,459,82],"class_list":["post-435090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kawhi-leonard-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-512591","tag-los-angeles-clippers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-12","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435090","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=435090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}