{"id":200266,"date":"2026-03-02T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:45:08","slug":"golden-state-and-los-angeles-square-off-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200266\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State and Los Angeles square off for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (28-31, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors<\/a> (31-29, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Monday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Clippers -1.5; over\/under is 219.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles plays Golden State in Western Conference action Monday.<\/p>\n

The Warriors are 21-18 in conference games. Golden State is eighth in the Western Conference scoring 115.6 points while shooting 46.2% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 18-18 in conference play. Los Angeles is at the bottom of the Western Conference recording only 23.6 assists per game led by Kawhi Leonard<\/a> averaging 3.7.<\/p>\n

The Warriors are shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 46.6% the Clippers allow to opponents. The Clippers are shooting 47.9% from the field, 0.6% higher than the 47.3% the Warriors’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Clippers won 103-102 in the last meeting on Jan. 6. Leonard led the Clippers with 24 points, and Stephen Curry<\/a> led the Warriors with 27 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brandin Podziemski<\/a> is averaging 12.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Warriors. Moses Moody<\/a> is averaging 15.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

John Collins<\/a> is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 5.2 rebounds for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 4-6, averaging 110.2 points, 42.6 rebounds, 31.0 assists, 9.8 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Clippers: 5-5, averaging 109.1 points, 39.9 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 9.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Warriors: Kristaps Porzingis: day to day (illness), Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee), Seth Curry<\/a>: out (back), Will Richard<\/a>: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n

Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Darius Garland<\/a>: out (toe).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers (28-31, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (31-29, eighth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93060,58698,80631,7000,33538,1953,48,8693,52,51,47,50,49,88581,20784,65032,14843,93061],"class_list":{"0":"post-200266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-brandin-podziemski","9":"tag-darius-garland","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-john-collins","13":"tag-kawhi-leonard","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-clippers","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-moses-moody","22":"tag-national-basketball-association","23":"tag-seth-curry","24":"tag-stephen-curry","25":"tag-will-richard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200266","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=200266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}