INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin did just a bit of everything against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n
In just his third game in red and blue after being traded to LA from the Indiana Pacers, the 23-year-old notched 38 points with three steals off the bench to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a 115-114 win over Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets.<\/p>\n
Jokic \u2014 despite dropping a double-double with 22 points and 17 rebounds \u2014 was not himself at Intuit Dome. The three-time MVP committed a game-high six turnovers, missed all six of his 3-point attempts and picked up five fouls. The Clippers exploited him, complementing Mathurin with signature performances from Kawhi Leonard and Derrick Jones Jr.<\/p>\n
Jones Jr. set a new season high with 22 points with some clutch buckets down the stretch. LA clinched the win after Denver guard Jamal Murray missed the would-be game-tying free throw with under one second remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n
After a busy trade deadline, the Clippers appear to be headed in a new direction. Reporter Kasey Kazliner covered the intense matchup and analyzed the Clippers\u2019 critical win on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin did just a bit of everything against the Denver Nuggets. In just his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[56224,7630,221569,123079,1753,25165,105783,1754,136455,221568,11653,148721,38268,86506,11952,355,221570,1756,99],"class_list":["post-479704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-clippers","tag-clippers-nuggets","tag-clips","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-derrick-jones-jr","tag-intuit-dome","tag-jamal-murray","tag-kasey-kazliner","tag-kaseykazliner","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-kazliner","tag-la-clippers","tag-lac","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-nba-la","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479704","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=479704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}