{"id":434406,"date":"2026-01-28T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434406\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:20:07","slug":"kawhi-leonard-joins-elite-clippers-club-in-win-over-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434406\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard joins elite Clippers’ club in win over Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SALT LAKE CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points, James Harden had 16 points and 10 assists, and the Clippers<\/a> beat the Utah Jazz 111-99 on Tuesday<\/a> night for their ninth win in 10 games.<\/p>\n

Leonard has scored at least 20 points in 25 consecutive games. He joins Bob McAdoo, World B. Free and Blake Griffin as the only players in franchise history with such a streak.<\/p>\n

Kris Dunn added 14 points and a season-best five steals for the Clippers (22-24<\/a>), who have the best record in the NBA since Christmas. They have won 16 of their last 19 games \u2014 immediately after going 3-16 in their previous 19.<\/p>\n

The Clippers took control during a 10-2 run in the third quarter powered powered by Dunn\u2019s two steals and layups, along with a three-pointer that made it 73-61. They led by double figures the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s Lauri Markkanen returned after missing seven games with illness to score 19 points on five-for-15 shooting.<\/p>\n

Ace Bailey scored 20 points and Brice Sensabaugh added 13 but the Jazz (15-32) have dropped seven of their last eight games. It was just the second time in the last 30 games that Utah failed to reach 100 points.<\/p>\n

With Leonard on the court, the Clippers are 14-2 in their last 16 games and with seven straight wins in that span.<\/p>\n

The Jazz were missing their top two playmakers in Jusuf Nurkic (illness), who has had three straight triple-doubles, and Keyonte George (rest), who has averaged 28.8 points in the last five games.<\/p>\n

The Jazz scored the first 10 points of the game and led 54-53 at halftime, but the Clippers\u2019 defense tightened up and forced 10 steals and several shot clock violations.<\/p>\n

Utah committed 17 turnovers which led to 23 points for Los Angeles. Although the Clippers play at the league\u2019s slowest pace, they still topped the Jazz in fast-break points 12-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points, James Harden had 16 points and 10 assists, and the Clippers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[79169,7630,421,205665,5460,5971,11653,21401,4281,355,13544,58254,99,33998,4219,4200,205666],"class_list":["post-434406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ace-bailey","tag-clippers","tag-club","tag-elite-clipper","tag-game","tag-illness","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-kris-dunn","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nba","tag-point","tag-rest","tag-sports","tag-steal","tag-utah-jazz","tag-win","tag-world-b-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434406","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=434406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}