{"id":515992,"date":"2026-03-05T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:01:07","slug":"leonard-scores-29-as-the-los-angeles-clippers-beat-the-indiana-pacers-for-a-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515992\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard scores 29 as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Indiana Pacers for a third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 on 8-for-11-shooting, and the Los Angeles Clippers won their third in a row, 130-107 over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brook Lopez had 17 points for the Clippers while Darius Garland had 12 in his first home game since being acquired in a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pascal Siakam had 29 points in his return after sitting out three games with a left wrist sprain to lead Indiana, but the Pacers lost their seventh in a row and fell to the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings with a 15-47 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jay Huff had 18 and was 4 of 8 on 3-pointers, and Jarace Walker finished with 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers led 42-25 after one quarter and 63-51 at halftime, with Leonard racking up 20 points. The Clippers pulled away with a 16-2 run in the third quarter to extend a seven-point lead to 21 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers shot 12.2 percentage points better from the field (55.1%) than the Pacers (42.9%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Norchad Omier had only one basket but according to the Clippers, became the first Nicaraguan to score in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pacers: At the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clippers: Visit San Antonio on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 on 8-for-11-shooting, and the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-515992","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\/515992","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=515992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}