{"id":535257,"date":"2026-03-14T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535257\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:21:07","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-28-points-in-los-angeles-clippers-victory-over-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535257\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 28 points in Los Angeles Clippers&#8217; victory over Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 28 points, Bennedict Mathurin had 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers extended their winning streak to four games with a 119-108 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jordan Miller added 14 points to help the eighth-place Clippers win for the seventh time in eight games to solidify their hold on a spot in the Western Conference play-in tournament. After starting the season 6-21, Los Angeles is a season-best two games over .500 at 34-32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard scored at least 20 points for the 44th consecutive game to tie Bob McAdoo\u2019s franchise record set for the Buffalo Braves in 1974-75.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers were without trade-deadline acquisition Daruis Garland, who was listed with left toe injury management on the front end of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Josh Giddey had his 11th triple-double of the season for the Bulls with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Tre Jones scored 21 points and Matas Buzelis added 18 as the Bulls went 2-3 on a West Coast trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chicago shot 44.2% from the floor and 29.3% from 3-point range while falling to 3-4 following an 11-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bulls lost on consecutive nights in the Los Angeles area after falling to the Lakers 142-130 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bulls: Host Memphis on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clippers: Host Sacramento on Saturday 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\">Doug Padilla, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 28 points, Bennedict Mathurin had 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-535257","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\/535257","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=535257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}