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Clippers rally late but are edged at Sacramento for their fifth loss in a row

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Los Angeles Clippers guard Norman Powell arrived at Golden 1 Center before Friday night’s tipoff against the Sacramento Kings with his left arm still in a sling, a day after injuring his shoulder while reaching out to stop a would-be Golden State rebounder.

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'Intrigued by what I saw': Russell Westbrook's Clippers debut cost Terance Mann minutes

LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard called it "ridiculous."

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Helene Elliott: 'It's crazy': Russell Westbrook's debut was part fit, part folly

LOS ANGELES — When the Clippers signed Russell Westbrook this week, coach Tyronn Lue said he wasn't expecting miracles from the nine-time All-Star and future Hall of Famer. The Clippers, Lue said, "want Russ to be Russ."

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Clippers score team-record 175 points but still lose in double-OT thriller to Kings

LOS ANGELES — White AirPods in his ears, his gaze locked onto the Sacramento highlights playing on a locker-room television, Russell Westbrook bobbed his head Friday night at a locker a few feet down the Crypto.com Arena hallway from his old one.

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'We want Russ to be Russ.' Clippers up to the challenge of winning with Russell Westbrook.

LOS ANGELES — Russell Westbrook entered his career's latest chapter Wednesday through a side door of the Clippers' practice facility, taking a seat on a podium surrounded by more cameras and microphones than have shown up at the Playa Vista headquarters in five months.

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Paul George, Terance Mann help Clippers fend off Suns

PHOENIX — Long, languid strides brought Kevin Durant, the 13-time All-Star in all-black, from one end of Footprint Arena’s court to a chair at its middle Thursday. A personal highlight reel played on a jumbotron overhead, and a midday crowd packed into one side of the arena’s lower bowl howled…

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Kawhi Leonard ties career high as new additions help Clippers hold off Warriors

Five months into a Clippers season that has sometimes felt like a slog, feeling less like joy than a constant examination under a microscope of their own championship expectations, the impression imparted on forward Nicolas Batum after Monday's practice, the team's first with its three new additions, was notable.

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ESPN Roasted for ‘Disrespectful’ Graphic Featuring Mahomes, Hurts

The network came under fire for depicting Mahomes’s title in an unfavorable light.

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Two Clippers agree: Russell Westbrook would be a good fit with team

LOS ANGELES — In comments that revealed differences in how some Clippers players value the role of a traditional point guard versus the team's front office, All-Star wing Paul George and starting forward Marcus Morris Sr. on Friday said the team needed to add a pure point guard and openly…

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Clippers’ title hopes take a seat for at least one more game in loss to Bucks

LOS ANGELES — Around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, as a little more than three hours remained until the NBA’s trade deadline, the Los Angeles Clippers didn’t have any trades close to happening, said Lawrence Frank, the team’s president of basketball operations.

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Childhood basketball courts: Where it all began for Clippers players and coach Tyronn Lue

LOS ANGELES — Years before they stepped onto pristine basketball courts as millionaires practicing a game whose rhythms had long ago become a daily routine, the kids and teenagers who would one day become Clippers stood in the driveway of their childhood home. Or a community center. Or an outdoor…

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Clippers pursuing Nets star Kyrie Irving; Nicolas Batum the hero in win over Knicks

NEW YORK — The pass from Paul George found Clippers wing Nicolas Batum in the right corner with 1.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.

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Clippers again examining point guard: How does John Wall figure into future?

LOS ANGELES — It is the topic that has never been extinguished for as long as the Clippers partnership with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George began nearly four years ago.

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‘Things do feel different.’ Paul George powers revived Clippers to another win

LOS ANGELES — By the time the Los Angeles Clippers pulled into San Antonio last Thursday they had lost nine of their previous 11 games and, with each passing day, valuable time to steer themselves out of their skid.

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Clippers clamp down in fourth quarter on Rockets to pull away for win

LOS ANGELES — The injury list grew yet again for the Clippers, leaving it up to Kawhi Leonard and the rest of the healthy group to push forward through this turbulent season, taking on the young, talented and also shorthanded Houston Rockets.

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Kawhi Leonard is back in full force, but Nuggets continue to own Clippers

LOS ANGELES — For the past month, Kawhi Leonard’s ability to dictate pace was back. His shooting has picked up. His play-making had garnered notice. The last question about his recovery from a 2021 knee injury, for league insiders, was whether or when his explosion would return.

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Clippers respond to Norman Powell's message, beat Mavericks to stop skid at 6

Last week, after a fifth straight Clippers loss, there was no team meeting in the visitors' locker room at Target Center in Minneapolis. There were no grand pronouncements among players.

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'We got to stick together.' Clippers try to figure things out amid losses and lineup changes.

After shaking up the Clippers' lineup Sunday, and with one month until the NBA's trade deadline, coach Tyronn Lue suggested more change is coming to the team's overcrowded guard rotation.

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New starting lineup, same result: Clippers’ losing streak stretches to six games

LOS ANGELES — The coach’s words before tipoff sounded like a rallying cry.

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Clippers’ cold shooting and poor defense leads to blowout loss to Nuggets

DENVER — Losers of three straight and seeking a spark, the Los Angeles Clippers hoped this night would represent a turnaround.

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Clippers falter at finish against Pacers despite Paul George's 45 points

INDIANAPOLIS — Clippers guard John Wall sat in the corner of the locker room, glued to his phone. The Clippers had just lost in Philadelphia to begin a five-game trip and players were stewing over the breakdowns.

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Pistons squander 14-point lead to suffer 142-131 loss to Clippers in overtime

DETROIT — After two days off due to the Christmas holiday, the Pistons hoped their recent third-quarter woes would not follow them into Monday's matchup against the LA Clippers.

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At 1,006 games and counting, Clippers' Nicolas Batum is one of NBA's survivors

PHILADELPHIA — Clippers teammates were gathering in the key and coaches were talking in a circle at midcourt, but Nicolas Batum was in no hurry to leave his courtside chair and begin shootaround on a late November morning.

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Healthy Clippers put it together in blowout win over Hornets

The first sign that things were different for the Clippers wasn’t seen so much as it was heard, some 90 minutes before Wednesday’s tipoff. It was the sound of sneakers on cement flooring reaching full speed down a hallway leading from the court to the team’s Crypto.com Arena locker rooms.

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'Starting all over again': Clippers finally able to practice at full strength

LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Batum, as passionate a fan of France's national soccer team as there is, said he tried recovering from Les Bleus' World Cup final defeat by spending Sunday walking around Disneyland with his family.

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