{"id":621475,"date":"2026-02-24T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621475\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:24:14","slug":"clippers-drop-gut-wrenching-game-to-magic-as-mathurins-buzzer-beating-attempt-falls-short-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621475\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers drop gut-wrenching game to Magic as Mathurin\u2019s buzzer-beating attempt falls short \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 With John Collins sidelined, the Los Angeles Clippers entered Sunday\u2019s battle with the Orlando Magic without one of their most reliable playmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kobe Sanders slotted in the lineup in Collins\u2019 place, but one of the main heartbeats of LA\u2019s offense was Bennedict Mathurin, who dropped 21 points off the bench in 30 minutes to complement Kawhi Leonard\u2019s 37 in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers struggled to contain Desmond Bane, who made half of Orlando\u2019s eight 3-pointers and finished with a Magic-leading 36 points. The Clippers won the turnover battle, 12-9, but couldn\u2019t prevail. Mathurin\u2019s wide-open 3-point attempt with the clock expiring would\u2019ve won the Clippers the game, but he missed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers will aim to find the win column on Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Reporter Kasey Kazliner covered Clippers-Magic and broke down the action on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 With John Collins sidelined, the Los Angeles Clippers entered Sunday\u2019s battle with the Orlando Magic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,363,559,56234,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-621475","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-bennedict-mathurin","10":"tag-clippers","11":"tag-kasey-kazliner","12":"tag-kawhi-leonard","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-clippers","15":"tag-laclippers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-losangelesclippers","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-orlando-magic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621475","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=621475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}