INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Size is king in the NBA.<\/p>\n
The Clippers, however, don\u2019t have it, following an injury update on backup center Isaiah Jackson that indicated he would miss at least a week with an ankle injury. With rookie big man Yanic Konan-Niederh\u00e4user already out for the season, Brook Lopez is LA\u2019s only option in the middle.<\/p>\n
Facing the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, who were without star Victor Wembanyama, the Clippers struggled early on with 3-point shooting and interior defense, ultimately falling 118-99.<\/p>\n
Darius Garland, usually a key contributor, shot 1-of-8 from distance and carried a minus-19 rating. Kawhi Leonard\u2019s 24 points were complemented by a combined 30 from Bennedict Mathurin and Jordan Miller off the bench, but as LA started to mount a comeback early in the second quarter, San Antonio pulled away again.<\/p>\n
The loss puts the Clippers back in the No. 9 seed in the West, half a game behind the Portland Trail Blazers. LA will face the lowly Sacramento Kings next for a chance to reach the 40-win mark.<\/p>\n
Reporter Kasey Kazliner digested the action at Intuit Dome and analyzed it on Unclipped, TOT\u2019s Clippers podcast. Listen below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Size is king in the NBA. The Clippers, however, don\u2019t have it, following an injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,56234,529,60817,4034,192,995,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,474,534,2474],"class_list":{"0":"post-695603","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-kasey-kazliner","11":"tag-kawhi-leonard","12":"tag-kazliner","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-clippers","15":"tag-lac","16":"tag-laclippers","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangelesclippers","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","23":"tag-spurs","24":"tag-wemby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695603","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=695603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}