Thunder rain on the Los Angeles Clippers
March 22nd, 2012
Oklahoma City 114, L.A. Clippers 91
Location - Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Officials - #25 Tony Brothers, #77 Karl Lane, #38 Michael Smith
Attendance - 18203
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:00 PM
THUNDER Vs CLIPPERS 114, 91: Kevin Durant scored 32 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past visiting Los Angeles.
Blake Griffin was held to a career-low seven points in 33 minutes. He came into the game averaging 21.2 points.
Derek Fisher, who signed with the Thunder on Wednesday, scored five points in 19 minutes. The 37-year-old point guard reached a buyout agreement with Houston on Monday.
Durant added nine rebounds, five assists and made all 11 of his free throws. Russell Westbrook scored 19 points for Oklahoma City.
Randy Foye, who was benched in Monday’s loss at Indiana, led Los Angeles with 23 points. Chris Paul scored 13 points and had 10 assists, but was 3 for 12 from the field.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Griffin’s previous career low was eight points against the Memphis Grizzlies last season. … Thunder guard Daequan Cook, who sprained his right knee Tuesday, did not play.
Preview Detroit At LA Clippers Sun March 18th Staples Center
March 18th, 2012
Pistons Vs Clippers
When: 3:30 PM ET, Sunday, March 18, 2012
Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
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THE STORY: The Los Angeles Clippers should think about asking the Los Angeles Lakers for a tutorial on how to hold serve at the Staples Center. The Clippers needed a late rally to defeat the woefully undermanned Houston Rockets on Saturday, giving them a chance to salvage their six-game homestand with a .500 record when the Detroit Pistons visit on Sunday. Detroit has won four of six and is coming off back-to-back 100-point games for the first time this season.
TV: 3:30 p.m. ET, FSD, FSSD
ABOUT THE PISTONS (16-28): Although Detroit ranks 28th in the league in scoring, its offense has picked up noticeably in the past month. The Pistons have cracked 100 points seven times in their last 17 games after reaching the century mark only once in the first 27. During the eight-game streak in which Detroit has gone 5-3, Rodney Stuckey is averaging 25.1 points. Guard Brandon Knight seems to be regaining his long-range touch, burying four 3-pointers in Friday’s loss at Phoenix.
ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (25-18): After scoring only two points and sleepwalking through the first half, Chris Paul came alive to rescue Los Angeles on Saturday. Paul scored 12 points in the final 2:42, including 10 straight to help the Clippers erase a six-point deficit. Paul tied a season high with five steals and finished with 23 points, matching his output in the opener of the five-game homestand. In his previous three games, he had scored a total of 39 points.
BUZZER BEATERS:
1. Nick Young, acquired from Washington at the trade deadline, could suit up Sunday but is expected to make his Clippers debut Tuesday.
2. Knight leads NBA rookies with 67 3-pointers. He needs three more to pass Lindsay Hunter for the team rookie record.
PREDICTION: Clippers 102, Pistons 97
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Suns to bright for Clippers
March 16th, 2012
SUNS Vs CLIPPERS 91, 87: Shannon Brown hit the go-ahead free throws as part of a season-high 21-point effort as visiting Phoenix rallied past Los Angeles at the Staples Center.
Channing Frye added 12 points as the Suns overcame a 12-point, fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Clippers for the 13th time in 14 meetings.
Blake Griffin scored 25 points for Los Angeles, which fell 2 1/2 games behind the first-place Lakers in the Pacific Division.
Phoenix has won nine of its last 12 games, the latest victory coming as veterans Steve Nash and Grant Hill were rested for the middle contest of a stretch of three games in three nights.
Brown hit two free throws with 1:33 left to give the Suns an 89-87 lead. He added two more free throws with 6.3 seconds remaining.
Phoenix trailed 75-64 entering the final quarter and fell behind by 12 before rolling off 10 consecutive points. The Suns eventually tied the score at 84 on two free throws by Jared Dudley with 2:52 left.
The Clippers led by 12 points after the opening quarter and used a 10-0 run to take a 47-30 lead with 2 1/2 minutes left in the second. Griffin scored three straight baskets during the run.
Phoenix roared back with nine straight points to end the half down 47-39.
Caron Butler added 14 points for the Clippers.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Clippers guard Chris Paul had 10 points and 11 assists for his 11th double-double of the season … Frye had four of Phoenix’s nine 3-pointers … Los Angeles was just 5 of 12 from the free-throw line … Sebastian Telfair started for Nash and had seven points and eight assists.
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Suns back at the Clippers
March 15th, 2012
Preview: Phoenix At L.A. Clippers
When: 10:30 PM ET, Thursday, March 15, 2012
Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
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THE STORY: The Phoenix Suns look for their ninth victory in 12 games when they visit the Los Angeles Clippers. The hot stretch is giving Phoenix a chance to make a run at one of the final Western Conference playoff spots. The Suns beat one of the other candidates in the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. Los Angeles is two games behind the Los Angeles Lakers in the Pacific Division after defeating the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.
TV: 10:30 p.m. ET, Fox Sports Arizona (Phoenix), Prime Ticket (Los Angeles)
ABOUT THE SUNS (20-22): Guard Jared Dudley had 21 points against Utah to continue his recent stretch of strong offensive performances. Dudley has three 20-point outings over the last seven games, including a season-high 28 against Minnesota on Monday. Dudley is averaging 19.9 points over the last seven games but deflects credit. “We’re firing on all cylinders offensively,” Dudley said. “We’re being unselfish and looking for guys who are hot.” Dudley had 22 points when the Suns beat the Clippers earlier this month.
ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (24-17): Los Angeles is attempting to emerge from its roughest stretch of the season. The victory over Atlanta was just its fifth in 13 games and was the first in three games during a six-game homestand that runs through Sunday. Backup guards Mo Williams with 25 points and Eric Bledsoe with 14 points were the high scorers against Atlanta as Chris Paul (13) and Blake Griffin (12) combined for just 25 between them. “It was a must-win,” Williams said. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves for this game because we needed it really bad.”
BUZZER BEATERS:
1. Phoenix has won 12 of the last 13 meetings, including an 81-78 victory on March 2.
2. Paul has at least one steal in 45 consecutive games.
3. Channing Frye scored 26 points and Marcin Gortat tallied 25 in the victory over the Jazz.
PREDICTION: Clippers 92, Suns 86.
Clippers fall on the Jersey Shore
March 8th, 2012
L.A. Clippers 100, New Jersey 101
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 8:00 PM
Location – Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey
Officials – #17 Joe Crawford, #34 Kevin Cutler, #29 Mark Lindsay
Attendance – 18711
NETS Vs CLIPPERS 101, 100: Jordan Farmar hit a 3-pointer with two-tenths of a second left to lift New Jersey over visiting Los Angeles.
Deron Williams had 21 points and 10 assists and MarShon Brooks added 19 points as the Nets won at home for the just the fourth time in 17 contests.
Blake Griffin had 28 points and 17 rebounds, Randy Foye tallied a season-best 24 points and Chris Paul had 22 points and 10 assists for Los Angeles.
Paul hit two free throws with 8.9 seconds left to give the Clippers a two-point lead before Farmer drained the 3-pointer to cap off a 16-point performance.
The New Jersey Nets squandered an 18-point, third-quarter lead as the Clippers rallied to tie the score at 88-88 on a fastbreak layup by Paul with 4:34 to play.
Shelden Williams had a season-high 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for New Jersey, which also received 14 points from Anthony Morrow and 12 points and 11 rebounds from Kris Humphries.
New Jersey shot 59.5 percent in the first half en route to a 57-45 lead. The Nets led 71-53 after a 3-pointer by Brooks midway through the third quarter. Los Angeles used a 9-0 run late in the quarter to pull within seven before the Nets took an 80-71 lead into the final stanza.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Williams has a 13-4 record in 17 head-to-head meetings against Paul. … Foye had five 3-pointers as the Clippers were 11 of 22 from distance. … New Jersey’s Shelden Williams hit 9 of 11 free throws. … The double-double was Griffin’s 24th of the campaign.
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Recap Clippers Timberwolves Target Center March 5th
March 6th, 2012
L.A. Clippers 94, Minnesota 95
Location – Target Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Officials – #56 Mark Ayotte, #41 Ken Mauer, #72 J.T. Orr
Attendance – 19509
Monday, March 5, 2012 8:00 PM
TIMBERWOLVES Vs CLIPPERS 95, 94: Kevin Love scored 39 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as host the Minnesota Timberwolves stayed perfect against Los Angeles this season.
Love registered his league-leading 33rd double-double and came up a point shy of his second straight 40-point game as the Timberwolves beat the Clippers for the third straight time.
Rookie Derrick Williams had 15 points and nine rebounds and Darko Milicic added 13 points to lift Minnesota (20-19) above the .500 mark.
Blake Griffin had 26 points and 12 rebounds to lead Los Angeles, which was playing for the fourth time in five nights. He also missed four free throws and committed a technical foul in the final four minutes.
Mo Williams scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter and Chris Paul added 18 for the Clippers, who dropped one-half game behind the Los Angeles Lakers atop the Pacific Division.
Love sparked an 18-8 run to close the third quarter as the Timberwolves pulled away from a 57-57 time to take a 75-65 lead into the fourth.
Los Angeles could not get any closer than three points until Paul hit a pair of foul shots with two seconds to play.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Love had a personal 11-0 first-quarter run in a span of under 2 1/2 minutes. That’s one more point than he scored in the last matchup against the Clippers. … Minnesota center Nikola Pekovic sat out the game with a sore foot, so Milicic made his first start – and only sixth appearance – in 16 games for Minnesota. … Griffin registered his 23rd double-double of the season. He had scored 14, 17 and 14 points in his previous three games, marking the first time this season he has failed to score 20 points at least once in a three-game span.
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Suns to bright for Clippers
March 3rd, 2012
Suns Vs Clippers
Location – US Airways Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Officials – #24 Mike Callahan, #26 Pat Fraher, #44 Eli Roe
Attendance – 18091
Friday, March 2, 2012 10:30 PM
SUNS 81, CLIPPERS 78: Jared Dudley scored 22 points, including a pair of clinching free throws with 13.3 seconds left, as the Phoenix Suns extended its mastery of visiting Los Angeles.
Center Marcin Gortat added 18 points and 14 rebounds as the Suns handed the Clippers their ninth consecutive defeat in Phoenix.
Grant Hill added 14 points for the Suns, who won despite a season-low 32 points in the first half and squandering an 11-point fourth-quarter lead.
Blake Griffin scored 17 points to pace Los Angeles, which has dropped 12 of the last 13 meetings with Phoenix.
The Suns closed the third quarter on a 13-3 run to carry a 63-52 lead into the fourth, but the Clippers stormed back with an 11-2 spurt capped by Mo Williams’ 3-pointer to tie it at 70 with 3:39 to play.
Gortat’s tip-in and a pair of free throws restored the lead to four, and the closest the Clippers got was within 77-75 on Chris Paul’s 3-pointer with 26.5 seconds left.
The Clippers appeared on the verge of delivering an early knockout punch when Kenyon Martin and Williams combined for all the points in a 10-1 spurt for a 33-22 second-quarter lead.
The Suns, however, responded with a 10-0 run of their own and held Los Angeles without a field goal for the final 4:58 to pull within 35-32 at halftime.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Suns PG Steve Nash, a two-time league MVP, wound up with more turnovers (seven) than points (six) for the third time this season. … Suns F Channing Frye had a well-rounded first-half stat line. He had 10 rebounds and zero points on 0-for-10 shooting. Frye finished with 14 rebounds and shot 2 of 18. … Los Angeles has not won in Phoenix since April 17, 2007. … Martin had a season-high 14 points, only the second time he’s scored in double figures in 12 games since joining the Clippers after his season in China ended.
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Recap Clippers vs Kings (108-100)
March 3rd, 2012
Los Angeles Clippers vs Kings (108-100) – Recap
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The Kings started off a 4 game in 5 night stretch on the wrong foot on Thursday night, losing to the Los Angeles Clippers in their only home game of the stretch. The Kings started off well, scoring 57 points on 58% from the field in the first half, but the Clippers made adjustments in the second half and controlled the game from the third quarter on.
Chris Paul led six Clippers in double figures with 22 points to go along with nine assists, as Los Angeles used a big second half to down Sacramento, 108-100, on Thursday.
Mo Williams donated 18 points with five assists, Blake Griffin added 14 points and nine rebounds, and Caron Butler contributed 13 points for the Clippers, who have won two of three.
The Clippers, of course, are becoming one of the best alley-oop teams in the league — Paul-to-Griffin is a common sight — and Paul said he’s been getting easy layups because opponents are so scared he’s going to throw a lob pass.
DeMarcus Cousins led Sacramento with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Marcus Thornton posted 18 points. Tyreke Evans also scored 18 points with six rebounds for the Kings, who saw their brief two-game winning streak come to an end.
“This is one of the top teams in the league and you have to play a perfect game,” said Kings coach Keith Smart. “I thought we played a perfect game for about five minutes here and there. Once we didn’t do that, the game got away from us.”
The two teams traded blows in the first quarter with the Clippers holding a 28-25 edge heading into the second. Los Angeles opened a 40-30 lead on the heels of eight straight points capped by a pair of free throws from Eric Bledsoe, but Sacramento stormed back with eight in a row of its own to draw back within two.
Francisco Garcia’s triple with just under five minutes on the clock knotted the game at 44, and the Kings went up by eight on back-to-back Jimmer Fredette long balls that postmarked an 11-0 run. The Clippers then scored eight straight of their own with Paul’s triple squaring it at 52.
The Clippers tallied the first eight out of the locker room to take a 65-57 lead, but again the Kings got up off the floor and stormed back to tie the game at 72-72 on Thornton’s bank shot with just over six minutes left in the stanza.
The runs continued, but the next one by the Clippers swung the game’s momentum in their direction. Randy Foye’s layup off a fastbreak capped an 11-0 burst for an 83-72 lead, and the margin stood at six points, 85-79, entering the final period.
The Clippers extend their edge out to 97-83 on the second of consecutive threes by Williams, and the Kings never got closer than their final eight- point deficit.
It was good to see Sacramento’s bench make one of their best contributions of the season, and hopefully that won’t be a one time thing. Speaking of the bench, J.J. Hickson, who played well in his 13 minutes, injured his hip on an attempted offensive rebound, falling hard to the ground. He is set to be reevaluated tomorrow and will not be with the team when they take on the Los Angeles Lakers tomorrow night.
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March 1st, 2012
Preview Clippers Vs Kings
When: 10:00 PM ET, Thursday, March 1, 2012
Where: Power Balance Pavilion, Sacramento, California
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THE STORY: Los Angeles has had a bad habit of blowing leads late in games – and tanked again in a 109-97 loss to Minnesota on Tuesday. The Clippers have lost three of four and will try to right the ship when they start a six-game trip Thursday night at Sacramento. “That’s something we’ve got to learn, how to put teams away,” said Chris Paul, who scored 27 Tuesday. Sacramento. The Kings have won four of five at Power Balance Pavilion.
TV: 10 p.m. ET, Prime Ticket (Clippers), CSN CA (Kings)
ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (20-12): The Clippers have not had much luck in Sacramento, losing seven of eight and 23 of their past 26 there. “We’re going to have to play on a higher level, especially on the road now, but maybe that will help us come together more,” coach Vinny Del Negro said. The Clippers have asked super fan Clipper Darrell Bailey to drop the Clipper name, saying he has never worked for the team and has been inappropriately misrepresenting the team at events.
ABOUT THE KINGS (12-22): The Kings have found a standout rookie guard, but it isn’t Jimmer Fredette, their top pick and 10th overall. Instead, Isaiah Thomas has emerged as one of the steals of the draft. Thomas, the 60th and last pick of the draft, is averaging 19.2 points and 6.8 assists in five career starts. He needs 19 points to tie Otis Birdsong for the most points scored by a Kings rookie in his first six starts (115 points). “We needed to get out in transition and run,” Thomas said. “I’m out there trying to make the right play. I’m doing that at a pretty high level right now.”
BUZZER BEATERS:
1. Caron Butler was 1 of 10 from the field for two points and is averaging seven points on 29.8 percent shooting over the last five games.
2. Sacramento has scored 124 total points in the paint in its last two games.
3. Marcus Thornton has scored 20 or more in six of his last seven games.
PREDICTION: Clippers 97, Kings 94.
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Timberwolves Vs Clippers February 28, 2012
February 29th, 2012
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TIMBERWOLVES Vs CLIPPERS: 109 to 97. Derrick Williams had a career-high 27 points and Michael Beasley also scored 27 as visiting Minnesota roared past Los Angeles in the fourth quarter.
Williams was 9 of 10 from the field and made all four of his 3-pointers, and scored 13 of the Timberwolves’ first 17 points in the final period.
Beasley was 11 for 15 and also scored 13 in the fourth as Minnesota (18-17) already surpassed its win total from last season. The Timberwolves outscored the Clippers 36-21 in the fourth after trailing 76-73.
Minnesota had a monumental 72-11 advantage in bench points and made 10 of 22 3-pointers compared to 2 of 11 for the Clippers.
Blake Griffin scored 18 of his 30 points in the first quarter for the Clippers (20-12). Chris Paul had 27 points and six assists and DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 14 rebounds.
The Clippers jumped to a 61-51 lead with seven points to open the third quarter, but Minnesota went on an 8-0 run keyed by five points from Johnson.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Ricky Rubio played against Paul for the first time this season. “Yes, but I play against him in Olympic games and I know him,” Rubio said. “He’s a tough guy. He knows how to play. He’s the key of this team.” … Coach Vinny Del Negro said the Clippers might still listen to deals before the March 15 trade deadline. … Clippers backup power forward Kenyon Martin’s bruised ribs could take a few weeks to heal, Del Negro said. … The Timberwolves’ 16 first-half assists are a season high for the opening half. … The Timberwolves return to Staples Center on Wednesday to play the Lakers before a game at Phoenix on Thursday.
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