{"id":200286,"date":"2026-03-02T08:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:09:31","slug":"clippers-beat-the-pelicans-137-117-to-end-3-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200286\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers beat the Pelicans 137-117 to end 3-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard scored 23 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans Pelicans 137-117 on Sunday night to end a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Tenth in the Western Conference, the Clippers improved to 28-31. The Pelicans are 13th in the West at 19-43.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans star Zion Williamson sat out after injuring his right ankle at Utah on Saturday night. He had played a career-high 35 straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles never trailed. It led 43-32 after a quarter and had a 76-70 advantage at the half. It was 107-94 after three, and the Clippers stretched the margin to 26 in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Miller added 19 points for Los Angeles. Derrick Jones Jr. had 17, Brook Lopez 16 and John Collins 15.<\/p>\n<p>While Leonard went 1 of 7 from 3-point range, the Clippers were 17 of 36 overall. Lopez was 4 for 6, and Jones and Kobe Sanders were each 3 for 4.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Fears led New Orleans with 28 points, hitting 5 of 6 3-pointers. Derik Queen scored 19 points, Dejounte Murray had 17, and Trey Murphy III added 16 after missing five games because of a right shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans: At Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clippers: At Golden State on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 23 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans Pelicans 137-117 on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2454,48,52,51,47,716,50,49,129,13510,127],"class_list":["post-200286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-basketball","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200286","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=200286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}