{"id":541644,"date":"2026-03-17T05:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:12:07","slug":"spurs-119-115-clippers-mar-16-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541644\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs 119-115 Clippers (Mar 16, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> overcame an early 14-point deficit before blowing most of a 24-point lead and recovering to hold off the Los Angeles Clippers 119-115 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Stephon Castle<\/a> had 23 points, eight assists and seven rebounds to lead the Spurs (50-18), who reached 50 wins for the first time since 2016-17 and trail the first-place Thunder by three games in the West. Devin Vassell<\/a> added 20 points.<\/p>\n

Fighting to secure a spot for the play-in tournament, the Clippers’ second straight loss dropped them back to .500 with Kawhi Leonard<\/a> watching from the bench. The NBA’s sixth-leading scorer sat out with a sprained left knee. <\/p>\n

Darius Garland<\/a> led six Clippers in double figures with 25 points and 10 assists. Jordan Miller<\/a> had 22 points off the bench, which outscored the Spurs’ reserves 57-30.<\/p>\n

After the Spurs ran off seven in a row to lead 115-102, Garland scored seven of the Clippers’ nine points to get within four with 38 seconds remaining. But the Spurs made four straight free throws to preserve the win.<\/p>\n

The Spurs led by 24 points in the third before the Clippers closed with a 16-3 run to trail by 10 going into the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Spurs started slowly, missing eight of their first nine shots, while the Clippers surged to a 17-3 lead. They shot 65% from the floor in the opening quarter, hit 5 of 7 3-pointers and made 10 of 12 free throws.<\/p>\n

San Antonio turned things around in the second. The Spurs erased all of their 14-point deficit, helped by 15 straight points over the end of the first and start of the second. In the period, they outscored the Clippers 37-15 to lead 66-52 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Spurs: Visit Sacramento on Tuesday to complete a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Clippers: Visit New Orleans on Wednesday to open a three-game trip.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs overcame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-541644","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\/541644","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=541644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}