{"id":73100,"date":"2025-11-28T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73100\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:49:31","slug":"luka-doncic-owns-the-clippers-again-as-lakers-win-nba-cup-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73100\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic owns the Clippers again as Lakers win NBA Cup matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Luka Doncic drilled a three-pointer directly in front of the Clippers\u2019 bench late in the first quarter and then glared at them, shaking his head as he ran back down court to play defense for the Lakers<\/a>, just one of the many piercing stares he sent their way after delivering one of his three-point bombs.<\/p>\n

It seems as if Doncic has his own personal rivalry against the Clippers and it just simply folded into the inter-city rivalry.<\/p>\n

And once again, Doncic overwhelmed the Clippers in directing the Lakers to a 135-118 win<\/a> Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n

He came up one rebound shy of a triple-double, finishing with 43 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds. He was 14-for-28 shooting from the field, seven for 12 from three-point range and eight for 11 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

In leading the Lakers to their fifth straight win, Doncic now has recorded 39 double-double games of at least 40 points, which moved him past Anthony Davis for the fourth most among active players and tying Magic Johnson for the sixth most 40-point double-doubles as a Laker.<\/p>\n

Doncic also tied Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O\u2019Neal for the most 40-point double-doubles as a Laker before the age of 27 since the NBA\/ABA merger (five).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we played a great game,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cI think they were getting a lot of shots, especially in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter, the game turned physical, and Doncic was in the middle of it.<\/p>\n

Kris Dunn pushed Doncic in the back when battling for rebounding position, and Doncic confronted Dunn, who then pushed the basketball into Doncic\u2019s chest. Jaxson Hayes then stepped in and pushed Dunn.<\/p>\n

In the end, Dunn was assessed two technical fouls and ejected from the game and Hayes was assessed a technical foul. Doncic shot a technical foul free throw with 3:33 left in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I appreciate it,\u201d Doncic said about Hayes stepping in to help him. \u201cI told him right away, \u2018Thanks for having my back.\u2019 And that says a lot about him. That says a lot about this team. Everybody has got each other\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kawhi <\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers was called for a foul after knocking down Austin Reaves on this play.<\/p>\n

(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Doncic scored 24 points against the Clippers in the first quarter alone, making his first five three-pointers before finishing the quarter five of eight shots from three, nine of 14 from the field, many of the baskets punctuated by a stare at the Clippers\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n

By the half, Doncic had posted 32 points on 11-for-17 shooting and six for 10 on three-pointers and six assists.<\/p>\n

Over the course of his career with the Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, Doncic, who is averaging 12.5 free-throw attempts per game, has torn the Clippers apart.<\/p>\n

Entering Tuesday night\u2019s game, he had averaged 32.2 points per game over 20 games, his highest against any Western Conference foe. He had produced 7.9 rebounds, 7.4 assists and shot 48% from the field, 36% from the three-point line.<\/p>\n

When asked why he has performed so well against the Clippers, Doncic shrugged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we just met a lot of times in the playoffs. They beat me the first two times, so I don\u2019t know what it is. I guess I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Deandre Ayton<\/a> (right knee contusion) out and Hayes starting in his place, Austin Reaves (31 points) and LeBron James (25), did their part to help the Lakers clinch Group B<\/a> of the NBA Cup with a 3-0 record.<\/p>\n

The Lakers finish group play against the Dallas Mavericks at home Friday night and the Clippers complete their group play against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night at Intuit Dome.<\/p>\n

Etc.<\/p>\n

Lakers coach JJ Redick said that Ayton got an MRI exam on his knee that \u201cwas clean other than just some swelling, a little bit of a bruise.\u201d Ayton was injured in the first half against the Jazz on Sunday. \u201cDon\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be a long-term thing,\u201d Redick said. \u201cHopefully it\u2019s a game-to-game thing and he\u2019s back at some point by the end of the week.\u201d \u2026 The Lakers announced that they signed forward Drew Timme to a two-way contract and waived two-way center Christian Koloko. Timme has played for the Lakers\u2019 G League team, the South Bay Lakers, and posted averages of 25.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 25.5 minutes in six games. The 6-foot-10 Timme played his college basketball at Gonzaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic drilled a three-pointer directly in front of the Clippers\u2019 bench late in the first quarter and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6223,4464,7550,10352,48,52,51,10356,1415,479,47,50,49,7551,10355,3906,10353,6811,1414,10354,9084],"class_list":["post-73100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-end","tag-floor","tag-gabe-vincent","tag-hectic-offseason","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-little-bit","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic","tag-maxi-kleber","tag-month","tag-national-team","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-redick","tag-third-day","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73100","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=73100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}