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Golden State Warriors<\/a> (37-44, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (41-40, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Inglewood, California; Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Clippers -8.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Golden State Warriors visit Kawhi Leonard<\/a> and the Los Angeles Clippers in Western Conference play Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 9-6 against division opponents. Los Angeles is fifth in the Western Conference at limiting opponent scoring, giving up just 112.7 points while holding opponents to 46.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Warriors are 7-8 against the rest of their division. Golden State is second in the league averaging 15.7 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 35.6% from deep. Moses Moody<\/a> leads the team averaging 2.5 makes while shooting 40.1% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are shooting 48.5% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 48.0% the Warriors allow to opponents. The Warriors average 114.7 points per game, 2.0 more than the 112.7 the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Clippers defeated the Warriors 114-101 in their last matchup on March 3. Leonard led the Clippers with 23 points, and Brandin Podziemski<\/a> led the Warriors with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: John Collins<\/a> is shooting 55.0% and averaging 13.5 points for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 25.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Stephen Curry<\/a> is shooting 46.8% and averaging 27.0 points for the Warriors. Podziemski is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 115.3 points, 40.0 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 9.8 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Warriors: 4-6, averaging 114.1 points, 40.5 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 9.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Clippers: Isaiah Jackson: out (ankle), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip).<\/p>\n

Warriors: Quinten Post: out (foot), Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), LJ Cryer<\/a>: out (ankle), Seth Curry<\/a>: out (adductor), Moses Moody: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors (37-44, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (41-40, ninth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,3086,860,559,78812,164,6971,529,4034,192,4032,17311,251,135,4033,4031,1104,1407,6,10133,573,10948],"class_list":{"0":"post-708014","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-bradley-beal","10":"tag-brandin-podziemski","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-john-collins","15":"tag-kawhi-leonard","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-clippers","18":"tag-laclippers","19":"tag-lj-cryer","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-losangelesclippers","24":"tag-moses-moody","25":"tag-national-basketball-association","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-seth-curry","28":"tag-stephen-curry","29":"tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116385000062013812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708014","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=708014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}