{"id":379445,"date":"2025-12-31T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:25:12","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-33-as-clippers-earn-fifth-consecutive-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379445\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 33 as Clippers earn fifth consecutive win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 33 points and the Clippers<\/a> extended their winning streak to a season-best five games Tuesday night with a 131-90 victory<\/a> over the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n

James Harden<\/a> had 21 points while John Collins<\/a> and rookie Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a> each added 16 for the Clippers, who have found a successful formula after not winning more than two consecutive games before their current run of success began.<\/p>\n

Leonard\u2019s productive night came after he scored a career-best 55 points<\/a> in a victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday. He has averaged 37.8 points over the past five games.<\/p>\n

The Clippers\u2019 win streak started on the same night center Ivica Zubac went down with a left ankle sprain. Zubac has not played in any of the past four games.<\/p>\n

Nique Clifford scored 18 points while Maxime Raynaud and Russell Westbrook each had 12 for the Kings, who fell to 3-12 since Nov. 26. Raynaud also grabbed 12 rebounds, but Sacramento lost its fifth consecutive road game.<\/p>\n

Westbrook added four assists and a pair of three-pointers against his former team.<\/p>\n

The Clippers left little doubt from the start. They led 34-20 after one quarter and were up by 36 in the second before taking a 70-43 advantage into halftime. They shot 57.1% from the floor in the second quarter while scoring 39 points, with Leonard delivering 18 of them.<\/p>\n

Leonard had 30 points through three quarters as the Clippers led 100-71 and coasted from there.<\/p>\n

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The Clippers shot 51.1% from the field overall while posting its largest margin of victory this season. Sacramento shot 41% from the floor.<\/p>\n

The Clippers committed just four turnovers while forcing the Kings into 19 that they turned into 28 points.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Clippers: vs. the Utah Jazz at Intuit Dome on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 33 points and the Clippers extended their winning streak to a season-best five games Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[155495,7630,166091,185465,41220,11653,16695,185466,46637,355,13544,9532,14828,6404,99,31307,6310],"class_list":["post-379445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-consecutive-game","tag-fifth-consecutive-win","tag-floor","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-king","tag-large-margin","tag-maxime-raynaud","tag-nba","tag-point","tag-quarter","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-streak","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379445","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=379445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}