{"id":658073,"date":"2026-03-14T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:29:39","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-28-points-in-the-clippers-119-108-victory-over-the-bulls-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658073\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 28 points in the Clippers’ 119-108 victory over the Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 28 points, Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> had 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> extended their winning streak to four games with a 119-108 victory over the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Jordan Miller<\/a> added 14 points to help the eighth-place Clippers win for the seventh time in eight games to solidify their hold on a spot in the Western Conference play-in tournament. After starting the season 6-21, Los Angeles is a season-best two games over .500 at 34-32.<\/p>\n

Leonard scored at least 20 points for the 44th consecutive game to tie Bob McAdoo\u2019s franchise record set for the Buffalo Braves in 1974-75.<\/p>\n

The Clippers were without trade-deadline acquisition Daruis Garland, who was listed with left toe injury management on the front end of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Josh Giddey<\/a> had his 11th triple-double of the season for the Bulls with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Tre Jones<\/a> scored 21 points and Matas Buzelis<\/a> added 18 as the Bulls went 2-3 on a West Coast trip.<\/p>\n

Chicago shot 44.2% from the floor and 29.3% from 3-point range while falling to 3-4 following an 11-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Bulls lost on consecutive nights in the Los Angeles area after falling to the Lakers<\/a> 142-130 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Bulls: Host Memphis on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Clippers: Host Sacramento on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 28 points, Bennedict Mathurin had 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,363,920,919,329,3824,79016,6483,965,529,192,973,1407,6,6277],"class_list":["post-658073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicagobulls","tag-event_recap","tag-jordan-miller","tag-josh-giddey","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la-clippers","tag-matas-buzelis","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-tre-jones"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116228008572414941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658073","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=658073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}