{"id":450214,"date":"2026-02-07T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:43:14","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-31-points-during-clippers-win-over-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450214\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 31 points during Clippers’ win over Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Clippers<\/a> to a 114-111 victory over Sacramento on Friday night, sending the Kings to their 11th straight loss.<\/p>\n

John Collins added 22 points and Brook Lopez and Kris Dunn each had 15 for the Clippers, who ended a two-game skid.<\/p>\n

Darius Garland<\/a>, acquired from Cleveland earlier in the week, remained out. He hasn\u2019t played since Jan. 14 because of a sprained big toe on his right foot.<\/p>\n

Malik Monk had 18 points to lead Sacramento, which hasn\u2019t won since beating Washington at home on Jan. 16. Nique Clifford had 16 points and Dylan Cardwell and Devin Carter each had 14 for the Kings. De\u2019Andre Hunter, also acquired from the Cavaliers this week, had six points in his second game for Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The Clippers went into halftime trailing 49-48, but took the lead for good with 9:50 left in the fourth quarter on a 3-pointer from Lopez to make it 86-84.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Clippers: At Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kings: Host Cleveland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Clippers to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[54539,719,44987,552,17984,5,3289,23985,17992,816,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,815,5304,5302,4,54568,343,39171,7341,2120],"class_list":["post-450214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-brook-lopez","tag-cleveland","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-dylan-cardwell","tag-hockey","tag-home","tag-jan","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-king","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-nhl","tag-nique-clifford","tag-point","tag-sacramento","tag-week","tag-win"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116029411010911706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}