{"id":459241,"date":"2026-02-07T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:58:18","slug":"kawhi-leonard-helps-los-angeles-clippers-hand-sacramento-kings-11th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459241\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard helps Los Angeles Clippers hand Sacramento Kings 11th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 31 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> to a 114-111 victory over Sacramento on Friday night, sending the Kings to their 11th straight loss.<\/p>\n

John Collins<\/a> added 22 points and Brook Lopez<\/a> and Kris Dunn<\/a> each had 15 for the Clippers, who ended a two-game skid.<\/p>\n

Darius Garland<\/a>, acquired from Cleveland earlier in the week, remained out. He hasn\u2019t played since Jan. 14 because of a sprained big toe on his right foot.<\/p>\n

Malik Monk<\/a> had 18 points to lead Sacramento, which hasn\u2019t won since beating Washington at home on Jan. 16. Nique Clifford<\/a> had 16 points and Dylan Cardwell<\/a> and Devin Carter<\/a> each had 14 for the Kings. De\u2019Andre Hunter, also acquired from the Cavaliers this week, had six points in his second game for Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The Clippers went into halftime trailing 49-48, but took the lead for good with 9:50 left in the fourth quarter on a 3-pointer from Lopez to make it 86-84.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Clippers: At Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kings: Host Cleveland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists to lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-459241","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\/459241","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=459241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}