{"id":404349,"date":"2026-01-13T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:05:07","slug":"clippers-win-third-straight-take-down-hornets-thanks-to-harden-leonard-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404349\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers win third straight, take down Hornets thanks to Harden, Leonard \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Kawhi Leonard was on a minutes restriction; John Collins dealt with foul trouble; Kris Dunn couldn\u2019t buy a bucket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three factors that would typically mire the Clippers\u2019 starting lineup offered an opportunity for head coach Tyronn Lue to make needed adjustments and eventually take down the Charlotte Hornets, 117-109.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles has won 10 of its last 12 games, capitalizing on Leonard and James Harden\u2019s recent heroics. Both veterans notched over 30 points against Charlotte, following a first half that left much to be desired for the Clippers\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jordan Miller led the Clippers\u2019 bench group with 14 points in 27 minutes and offered needed support to the starting five. Harden had four steals and moved into ninth on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list, passing Shaquille O\u2019Neal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With three consecutive wins and only one game back of the final play-in spot, LA will welcome the Washington Wizards to Intuit Dome on Wednesday next. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Talk of Troy reporter Kasey Kazliner was in Inglewood and analyzed the Clippers\u2019 win on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Kawhi Leonard was on a minutes restriction; John Collins dealt with foul trouble; Kris Dunn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11949,7630,22488,6418,136455,11653,22487,38268,355,99,136456],"class_list":{"0":"post-404349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-charlotte-hornets","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-hornets","11":"tag-james-harden","12":"tag-kasey-kazliner","13":"tag-kawhi-leonard","14":"tag-kon-knueppel","15":"tag-la-clippers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-unclipped"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404349","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=404349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}