{"id":209933,"date":"2026-03-08T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:49:08","slug":"leonard-garland-and-mathurin-power-the-clippers-past-the-grizzlies-123-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209933\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard, Garland and Mathurin power the Clippers past the Grizzlies 123-120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard had 28 points, Darius Garland scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and the Los Angeles Clippers held on for a 123-120 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bennedict Mathurin finished 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Derrick Jones Jr. added 16 points as the Clippers won for the fourth time in five games despite hitting only four 3-pointers, a season low. Los Angeles was 4 for 17 from distance.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Jerome led Memphis with 23 points and seven assists. Taylor Hendricks scored 18 and Cedric Coward 15 as Memphis lost its third straight.<\/p>\n<p>The game was close throughout, and the Grizzlies held a 118-117 lead with about two minutes left. Leonard and Jordan Miller each made a pair of free throws to give Los Angeles a 121-118 edge. Mathurin&#8217;s two free throws with 4.4 second left sealed the win as Jerome&#8217;s closing 3-point try for Memphis was off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers, who were 15 games under .500 earlier this season, now sit at 31-32. The are in ninth place in the Western Conference, and in the running for a postseason bid.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Grizzlies&#8217; season has been marred by injuries. Six rotation players were on the injured list for Saturday&#8217;s game, including guard Ja Morant, who missed his 20th game with a left elbow UCL sprain. <\/p>\n<p>Before the game, Morant said he wanted to remain with the franchise, even referring to a Grizzlies logo tattooed on his back as a sign of his loyalty. <\/p>\n<p>Memphis got off to a fast start building a 19-point lead against the Clippers, playing on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage was short-lived. The shooting touch left Memphis, which committed 10 turnovers in the second. Leonard scored 15 points and the Clippers trailed by a point at 59-58 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Clippers: Host the Knicks on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies: At the Brooklyn Nets on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard had 28 points, Darius Garland scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2454,48,52,51,47,716,50,49,8336,7016,129,127],"class_list":["post-209933","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-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209933","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=209933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}