{"id":561925,"date":"2026-04-03T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:41:08","slug":"clippers-without-size-no-match-for-wembanyama-less-spurs-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561925\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers, without size, no match for Wembanyama-less Spurs \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Size is king in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers, however, don\u2019t have it, following an injury update on backup center Isaiah Jackson that indicated he would miss at least a week with an ankle injury. With rookie big man Yanic Konan-Niederh\u00e4user already out for the season, Brook Lopez is LA\u2019s only option in the middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Facing the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, who were without star Victor Wembanyama, the Clippers struggled early on with 3-point shooting and interior defense, ultimately falling 118-99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Darius Garland, usually a key contributor, shot 1-of-8 from distance and carried a minus-19 rating. Kawhi Leonard\u2019s 24 points were complemented by a combined 30 from Bennedict Mathurin and Jordan Miller off the bench, but as LA started to mount a comeback early in the second quarter, San Antonio pulled away again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The loss puts the Clippers back in the No. 9 seed in the West, half a game behind the Portland Trail Blazers. LA will face the lowly Sacramento Kings next for a chance to reach the 40-win mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reporter Kasey Kazliner digested the action at Intuit Dome and analyzed it on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Size is king in the NBA. The Clippers, however, don\u2019t have it, following an injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,7630,136455,11653,148721,38268,86506,355,2116,99,17654,114219],"class_list":{"0":"post-561925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-kasey-kazliner","11":"tag-kawhi-leonard","12":"tag-kazliner","13":"tag-la-clippers","14":"tag-lac","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-spurs","19":"tag-wemby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561925","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=561925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}