{"id":216065,"date":"2026-03-12T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:19:08","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-45-points-in-the-clippers-153-128-romp-over-the-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216065\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 45 points in the Clippers&#8217; 153-128 romp over the Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard scored 45 points and the Los Angeles Clippers routed the Minnesota Timberwolves 153-128 on Wednesday night, moving above .500 with their third straight victory and sixth in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth in the Western Conference at 33-32 after opening 6-21, the Clippers had their highest points total of the season. They blew out Minnesota after beating New York on Monday night to open a five-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard was 15 of 20 from the the field, 6 of 9 on 3s and made 9 of 10 free throws. Los Angeles made 19 of 37 3s.<\/p>\n<p>Bennedict Mathurin scored 22 points for Los Angeles. Clippers newcomer Darius Garland had 21, hitting five 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 36 points and Naz Reid had 18.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota dropped to sixth in the tight Western Conference, but only a half-game behind the third-place Lakers. The Timberwolves have lost three in a row after winning five straight. They lost to the Lakers on Tuesday night to open four-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard scored 18 points in the first quarter to help Los Angeles take a 38-27 lead. He had 28 at the half, with the Clippers up 74-65, and went to the fourth with 39 and LA ahead 109-98. Los Angeles had a 44-30 edge in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Timberwolves: At Golden State on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clippers: Host Chicago on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 45 points and the Los Angeles Clippers routed the Minnesota Timberwolves 153-128 on Wednesday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2454,48,52,51,47,716,50,49,4226,16138,129,4694,127],"class_list":["post-216065","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-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216065","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=216065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}