{"id":448517,"date":"2026-02-02T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448517\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:43:07","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-25-points-los-angeles-clippers-resume-winning-ways-with-rout-of-phoenix-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448517\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 25 points, Los Angeles Clippers resume winning ways with rout of Phoenix Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 25 points and the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, playing without James Harden<\/a>, routed the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 117-93 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Leonard, who was left off the Western Conference All-Star reserves announced earlier Sunday, had eight rebounds as well as his 27th consecutive game with 20 or more points. Ivica Zubac<\/a> had 20 rebounds as the Clippers bounced back from a loss at Denver on Friday and dominated the inside, outrebounding Phoenix 63-35 and outscoring the Suns 64-18 in the paint.<\/p>\n

Jordan Miller<\/a> had 20 points, John Collins<\/a> 16, Zubac 14 and Kobe Sanders<\/a> 12 for the Clippers, who shot 51.8% from the field. Sanders started for Harden, who missed the game for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Since starting the season 6-21, the Clippers have won 17 of 21 and are just two games under .500. The Suns had won three straight before Sunday, and are still 15-7 since Dec. 21.<\/p>\n

Grayson Allen<\/a> led the Suns with 23 points and eight assists, and Dillon Brooks<\/a> scored 22 points. Phoenix shot just 33.3% from the field and was held under 100 points for just the sixth time in 50 games this season. Collin Gillespie<\/a> and Jordan Goodwin<\/a> each finished with 12 points.<\/p>\n

The Suns were without Devin Booker<\/a> (right ankle sprain) and Jalen Green<\/a> (right hamstring, left hip). Booker was selected as a reserve for his fifth All-Star Game earlier Sunday.<\/p>\n

The teams split the season series 2-2.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Clippers: Host Philadelphia on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Suns: At Portland on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Jack Thompson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points and the Los Angeles Clippers, playing without James Harden, routed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-448517","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\/448517","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=448517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}