{"id":548662,"date":"2026-01-28T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:25:10","slug":"clippers-beat-the-jazz-115-103-behind-leonards-25th-straight-game-with-more-than-20-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548662\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers beat the Jazz 115-103 behind Leonard&#8217;s 25th straight game with more than 20 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points, James Harden had 16 points and 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Utah Jazz 115-103 on Tuesday night for their ninth win in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Dunn added 14 points and a season-best five steals for the Clippers (22-24), who have the best record in the NBA since Christmas. They have won 16 of their last 19 games \u2014 immediately after going 3-16 in their previous 19.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers took control during a 10-2 run in the third quarter powered powered by Dunn&#8217;s two steals and layups, along with a 3-pointer that made it 73-61. Los Angeles led by double figures the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Utah&#8217;s Lauri Markkanen returned after missing seven games due to illness to score 19 points on 5-for-15 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Ace Bailey scored 20 points and Brice Sensabaugh added 13 but the Jazz (15-32) have dropped seven of their last eight games. <\/p>\n<p>With Leonard on the court, the Clippers are 14-2 in their last 16 games and have won seven straight.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard has scored at least 20 points in 25 consecutive games. He joins Bob McAdoo, World B. Free and Blake Griffin as the only players in franchise history with such a streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz were missing their top two playmakers in Jusuf Nurkic (illness), who has had three straight triple-doubles, and Keyonte George (rest), who has averaged 28.8 points in the last five games.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz scored the first 10 points of the game and led 54-53 at halftime, but the Clippers defense tightened up and forced 10 steals and several shot clock violations. <\/p>\n<p>Utah committed 17 turnovers which led to 23 points for Los Angeles. Although the Clippers play at the league&#8217;s slowest pace, they still topped the Jazz in fast-break points 12-8.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Clippers: Visit Denver on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz: Host Golden State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points, James Harden had 16 points and 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":548663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[1339,54126,44679,18169,224,3142,1260,62,67,132,68,3132],"class_list":["post-548662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-blake-griffin","tag-christmas","tag-james-harden","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115971537169226322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548662","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=548662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}