{"id":240584,"date":"2026-03-28T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240584\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:09:17","slug":"kawhi-leonard-buzzer-beater-seals-clippers-massive-comeback-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240584\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard buzzer-beater seals Clippers’ massive comeback win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

INDIANAPOLIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard<\/a> made a jumper with 0.4 seconds remaining, and the Clippers<\/a> rallied from a 24-point deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 114-113<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Leonard finished with 28 points, reaching 20 for the 50th straight game. Darius Garland<\/a> led the Clippers with 30.<\/p>\n

The Clippers were run off the floor early by the team with the NBA\u2019s worst record. The Pacers were a sizzling eight for 11 from three-point range in the first quarter to open a 42-21 lead.<\/p>\n

It grew to 45-21 early in the second before the Clippers stormed back for their fourth straight victory, giving coach Tyronn Lue<\/a> the 400th of his career.<\/p>\n

Indiana had gone back ahead 113-108 on Obi Toppin\u2019s jumper with a minute to play. Leonard answered with a jumper, Garland made two free throws and the Clippers got the ball back after Pascal Siakam missed a jumper. They inbounded along the left side to Leonard, who dribbled into the middle and pulled up for the winner.<\/p>\n

Leonard become the 14th NBA player to score at least 20 in 50 straight games, a streak that began Nov. 28.<\/p>\n

Bennedict Mathurin scored 17 points against his former team, going 12 for 15 on free throws.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Nesmith scored 26 points and Toppin had 20 for the Pacers, who have dropped two in a row since the victory that snapped their 16-game winning streak. They lost forward Jarace Walker after he was evaluated for a concussion in the first half.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Clippers: at Milwaukee on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard made a jumper with 0.4 seconds remaining, and the Clippers rallied from a 24-point deficit to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[108175,6665,108176,58698,32732,6999,89020,1953,48,52,51,47,50,49,108174,47819,96194,1417,9018,30246,427],"class_list":["post-240584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-50th-straight-game","tag-clippers","tag-coach-tyronn-lue","tag-darius-garland","tag-free-throw","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jumper","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-massive-comeback-win","tag-obi-toppin","tag-pacers","tag-point","tag-second","tag-streak","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240584","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=240584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}