{"id":486583,"date":"2026-01-02T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:25:14","slug":"kawhi-leonard-scores-45-points-in-clippers-sixth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486583\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scores 45 points in Clippers’ sixth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 45 points, James Harden added 20 and the Clippers<\/a> recovered from blowing a 21-point lead to beat the Utah Jazz on 118-101<\/a> on Thursday night, extending their winning streak to a season-best six games.<\/p>\n

Leonard was the only Clippers starter on the floor for much of the fourth quarter. He singlehandedly matched Utah\u2019s points in the period (20), with blood on his nose from what appeared to be a scratch.<\/p>\n

The Clippers hit seven straight three-pointers, with Leonard making four, to pull away. Nicolas Batum<\/a> finished with 14 points and went four for six from three-point range.<\/p>\n

The Jazz rallied despite being without three starters. They were led by reserve Kyle Anderson with 22 points \u2014 his first 20-point game in nearly three years \u2014 and Brice Sensabaugh with 20. Anderson\u2019s eight rebounds were a season high. Cody Williams also had 18 points, while Isaiah Collier had 16 points and 10 assists.<\/p>\n

The game was tied six times in the third, when Utah took its first lead of the game.<\/p>\n

The Clippers outscored Utah 28-7 to start the game. The Jazz missed their first six shots and had one rebound in the first six minutes.<\/p>\n

Utah outscored the Clippers 33-22 in the second \u2014 when Leonard scored the Clippers\u2019 first nine points \u2014 to trail 53-50 at halftime.<\/p>\n

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Utah played without Keyonte George (illness), Lauri Markkanen (knee) and Jusuf Nurkic (toe). The Jazz have dropped six of eight.<\/p>\n

The Jazz had 58 points in the paint and their bench outscored the Clippers\u2019 reserves 51-40.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Clippers: <\/b>vs. the Boston Celtics at Intuit Dome on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 45 points, James Harden added 20 and the Clippers recovered from blowing a 21-point lead…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,193821,7197,141802,1910,4451,47133,3370,145018,2961,3526,5615,224,5337,449,24566,219774,424,3132],"class_list":{"0":"post-486583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-clipper","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-cody-williams","13":"tag-game","14":"tag-illness","15":"tag-jusuf-nurkic","16":"tag-kawhi-leonard","17":"tag-keyonte-george","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-lauri-markkanen","20":"tag-lead","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-point","24":"tag-rebound","25":"tag-sixth-straight-win","26":"tag-utah","27":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115824317187870524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}