{"id":627766,"date":"2026-02-27T07:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:38:23","slug":"clippers-lose-third-straight-fall-to-t-wolves-without-kawhi-in-sloppy-affair-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627766\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers lose third-straight, fall to T-Wolves without Kawhi in sloppy affair \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 When you don\u2019t have your best player, it\u2019s always going to be an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But somehow, some way, the Los Angeles Clippers were able to stay toe-to-toe with the Minnesota Timberwolves, with Kawhi Leonard sidelined. The T-Wolves took a 94-88 win thanks to 31 points and a clutch 3-pointer from Anthony Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Darius Garland and John Collins were also inactive for the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The loss marked LA\u2019s fifth-straight game in clutch time, but also its third loss in a row. Bennedict Mathurin \u2014 who made his first start as a Clipper \u2014 struggled to score consistently. Derrick Jones Jr. carried the load for the Clippers with 18 points, but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LA shot 5-of-22 from distance and gave away the ball 19 times. Both of these factors ultimately defined the tough loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Clippers will return to action on Sunday to face the New Orleans Pelicans. Reporter Kasey Kazliner covered Thursday\u2019s bout and analyzed the action on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 When you don\u2019t have your best player, it\u2019s always going to be an uphill battle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[375,7,363,559,11029,56234,529,60817,3445,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,308,71317,57288],"class_list":["post-627766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-clippers","tag-intuit-dome","tag-kasey-kazliner","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-kazliner","tag-kobe-sanders","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba","tag-timberwolves","tag-twolves","tag-unclipped"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627766","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=627766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}