The LA Clippers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 126-89 Sunday night, capping off a 15-3 stretch dating back to December. For one fan, it meant he had to eat his words — literally.<\/p>\n
Clippers coach Ty Lue said on Dec. 20 that he told the team their goal was to go 35-20 in their remaining games. At the time, they had a 6-21 record. Robert Flom, managing editor of the independent Clippers blog 213Hoops responded to Lue\u2019s proposition by writing on X: \u201cIf they go 15-3 in any stretch this season will print and eat this tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the Clippers facing a Nets team on Sunday that had won two games this calendar year, fans remembered Flom\u2019s post. The Clippers did, too, replying on X as soon as the final buzzer sounded and sharing a photo taken at Intuit Dome of the printed post.<\/p>\n
Flom stayed true to his word, saying that he would indeed eat a printout of his post during a podcast episode Monday evening. Lue had a message for Flom postgame: \u201cHe\u2019s got to go live.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Clippers are 10-3 in January, the best record in the NBA in that span. The surge has coincided with Kawhi Leonard finding his rhythm. He has scored at least 20 points in 24 consecutive games, a career-high streak, and finished with 28 points against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Leonard expressed concern for Flam, saying \u201cI don\u2019t know how healthy that is for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
LA now holds a 21-24 record, good for 10th in the Western Conference — a sharp turnaround from when Lue set the goal and Flom\u2019s bet seemed far-fetched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Clippers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 126-89 Sunday night, capping off a 15-3 stretch dating back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,46516,4034,192,4032,251,135,46517,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-562524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-512591","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-los-angeles-clippers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-12","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesclippers","19":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115963150097981648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562524","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=562524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}