Kawhi Leonard scored 33 points and the Los Angeles Clippers extended their winning streak to a season-best five games Tuesday night with a 131-90 victory over the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n
James Harden had 21 points while John Collins and rookie Yanic Konan Niederhauser each added 16 for the Clippers, who have found a successful formula after not winning more than two consecutive games before their current run of success began.<\/p>\n
Leonard\u2019s productive night came after he scored a career-best 55 points in a victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday. He has averaged 37.8 points over the past five games.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles\u2019 win streak started on the same night center Ivica Zubac went down with a left ankle sprain. Zubac has not played in any of the past four games.<\/p>\n
Nique Clifford scored 18 points while Maxime Raynaud and Russell Westbrook each had 12 for the Kings, who fell to 3-12 since Nov. 26. Raynaud also grabbed 12 rebounds, but Sacramento lost its fifth consecutive road game.<\/p>\n
Westbrook added four assists and a pair of 3-pointers against his former team.<\/p>\n
The Clippers left little doubt from the start. They led 34-20 after one quarter and were up by 36 in the second before taking a 70-43 advantage into halftime. They shot 57.1% from the floor in the second quarter while scoring 39 points, with Leonard delivering 18 of them.<\/p>\n
Leonard had 30 points through three quarters as the Clippers led 100-71 and coasted from there.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles shot 51.1% from the field overall while posting its largest margin of victory this season. Sacramento shot 41% from the floor.<\/p>\n
The Clippers committed just four turnovers while forcing the Kings into 19 that they turned into 28 points.<\/p>\n
Kings: Home against the Boston Celtics on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Clippers: Home against the Utah Jazz on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 33 points and the Los Angeles Clippers extended their winning streak to a season-best five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,2346,529,4056,135,71273,71275,71274,6,3101,71276,986,477,4055,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-507659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-basketball-news","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard","11":"tag-kings","12":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","13":"tag-los-angeles-clippers-vs-sacramento-kings","14":"tag-los-angeles-clippers-vs-sacramento-kings-news","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers-vs-sacramento-kings-score","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-news","18":"tag-nba-news-in-india","19":"tag-sacramento","20":"tag-sacramento-kings","21":"tag-sacramentokings","22":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115814510372023617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}