{"id":220544,"date":"2026-03-15T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:05:18","slug":"los-angeles-faces-san-antonio-seeks-5th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220544\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles faces San Antonio, seeks 5th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (49-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (34-32, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Inglewood, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles is looking to continue its four-game win streak with a victory against San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 21-19 in conference matchups. Los Angeles is 17-24 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Spurs have gone 28-14 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is fifth in the Western Conference with 27.4 assists per game led by Stephon Castle<\/a> averaging 7.0.<\/p>\n

The Clippers make 48.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.2 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (45.1%). The Spurs average 13.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 more makes per game than the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Spurs won 116-112 in the last matchup on March 7.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kawhi Leonard<\/a> is averaging 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and two steals for the Clippers. Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and three blocks for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 7-3, averaging 121.1 points, 41.6 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Spurs: 8-2, averaging 120.9 points, 45.3 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Clippers: Nicolas Batum: out (rest), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip).<\/p>\n

Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Dylan Harper: day to day (calf).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (49-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (34-32, 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":[43154,26752,7002,80631,1953,48,8693,52,51,47,50,49,20784,7001,34777,7569,68642],"class_list":["post-220544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-bradley-beal","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-event_preview","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-stephon-castle","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220544","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=220544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220544\/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=220544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}