{"id":211305,"date":"2026-03-09T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211305\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:58:07","slug":"leonard-and-los-angeles-take-on-the-knicks-in-non-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211305\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard and Los Angeles take on the Knicks in non-conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> (41-24, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clippers<\/a> (31-32, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Inglewood, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knicks -2; over\/under is 220.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: New York heads to Los Angeles for a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Clippers are 16-13 on their home court. Los Angeles is 15-24 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Knicks are 18-15 on the road. New York is fourth in the Eastern Conference with 46.1 rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/karl-anthony-towns-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> averaging 11.9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Clippers make 48.1% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.4 percentage points higher than the Knicks have allowed to their opponents (45.7%). The Knicks average 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 more made shots on average than the 13.5 per game the Clippers give up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The teams square off for the second time this season. The Knicks won 123-111 in the last meeting on Jan. 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jalen-brunson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> led the Knicks with 26 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kawhi-leonard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> led the Clippers with 25 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is averaging 27.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and two steals for the Clippers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/brook-lopez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brook Lopez<\/a> is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Towns is scoring 19.8 points per game with 11.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 21.8 points and 4.0 rebounds while shooting 42.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 115.5 points, 42.4 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Knicks: 6-4, averaging 110.9 points, 44.7 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.8 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Clippers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/yanic-konan-niederhauser-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/bradley-beal-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/john-collins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Collins<\/a>: out (arm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Knicks: Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (41-24, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (31-32, ninth in the Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26752,80727,80631,58696,33538,97109,1953,48,8693,52,51,47,50,49,20784,13504,68642],"class_list":{"0":"post-211305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-bradley-beal","9":"tag-brook-lopez","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-jalen-brunson","12":"tag-john-collins","13":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","14":"tag-kawhi-leonard","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-clippers","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-national-basketball-association","23":"tag-new-york-knicks","24":"tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211305","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=211305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211305\/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=211305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}