{"id":519929,"date":"2026-03-07T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:39:07","slug":"victor-wembanyama-san-antonio-spurs-rally-from-25-points-down-to-beat-los-angeles-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519929\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs rally from 25 points down to beat Los Angeles Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks as the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> rallied from a 25-point deficit to beat the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> 117-112 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> had 30 points and nine rebounds for Los Angeles, which had a three-game winning streak snapped.<\/p>\n

San Antonio (46-17) has won 14 of 15 and is second in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

After defending a missed 3-pointer by Leonard, Wembanyama broke free for an uncontested dunk that gave the Spurs a 113-112 lead with 16 seconds left. Clippers forward Nicolas Batum<\/a> turned the ball over on the ensuing possession when his foot crossed the boundary while inbounding the ball. Stephon Castle<\/a> closed out the win by rebounding his own missed free throw and converting a layup with 1 second remaining. <\/p>\n

After trailing 75-50 in the third quarter, the Spurs opened the fourth with an 18-5 run to take their first lead since the opening minutes.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama blocked Kris Dunn<\/a>\u2019s reverse layup, creating a fast break that ended with an alley-oop dunk by Carter Bryant<\/a>. Devin Vassell<\/a> followed with a 3-pointer for a 99-97 lead.<\/p>\n

Julian Champagnie<\/a> finished with 20 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, and De\u2019Aaron Fox had 19 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Brook Lopez<\/a> had 26 points for the Clippers.<\/p>\n

Lopez had nine points in the first quarter on a series of floaters, fadeaways and step-back jumpers.<\/p>\n

The Clippers took a 56-39 lead with 4 1\/2 minutes left in the first half. The lead stretched to 22 points over the next four minutes.<\/p>\n

San Antonio shot 38% from the field and 30% on 3-pointers in the first half to trail 66-46 at the break, its biggest halftime deficit of the season. The Spurs have led at the half in 42 of their 63 games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Clippers: At Memphis on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Spurs: Host Houston on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks as the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-519929","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\/519929","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=519929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}