{"id":373404,"date":"2025-12-28T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:20:10","slug":"sources-clippers-forward-jones-to-return-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373404\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Clippers forward Jones to return Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 27, 2025, 08:07 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"43d66d12-a645-9585-46c2-d9d5fc2eb879\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3936099\/derrick-jones-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Jones Jr<\/a>., who has been out since Nov. 16 because of a sprained MCL, will be available to return Sunday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had started the first 13 games of the season and was averaging a career-high 10.9 points before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>He was injured during a collision against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> on Nov. 16, and was helped to the locker room, grabbing his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers, who have struggled to a 9-21 record this season, are on a three-game win streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 27, 2025, 08:07 PM ET LA Clippers forward Derrick Jones Jr., who has been out since Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-373404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}