{"id":168086,"date":"2026-02-07T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168086\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:30:12","slug":"kawhi-leonards-31-points-lift-clippers-over-kings-handing-sacramento-11th-straight-loss-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168086\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s 31 points lift Clippers over Kings, handing Sacramento 11th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard scores 31 points to lead the Los Angeles Clippers to a 114-111 victory over Sacramento. The win on Friday night sends the Kings to their 11th&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif.(AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Los Angeles Clippers to a 114-111 victory over Sacramento on Friday night, sending the Kings to their 11th straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>John Collins added 22 points and Brook Lopez and Kris Dunn each had 15 for the Clippers, who ended a two-game skid.<\/p>\n<p>Darius Garland, 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<p>Malik Monk had 18 points to lead Sacramento, which hasn&#8217;t won since beating Washington at home on Jan. 16. Nique Clifford had 16 points and Dylan Cardwell and Devin Carter each had 14 for the Kings. De&#8217;Andre Hunter, also acquired from the Cavaliers this week, had six points in his second game for Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#13;<br \/>\nUp next                    <\/p>\n<p>Clippers: At Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host Cleveland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 31 points to lead the Los Angeles Clippers to a 114-111 victory over Sacramento. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-168086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}