{"id":395454,"date":"2023-01-09T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395454"},"modified":"2023-01-09T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T09:05:10","slug":"hawks-hand-clippers-sixth-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hawks-hand-clippers-sixth-straight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks hand Clippers sixth straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0422he Atlanta Hawks pieced together their best first half of the season \u043en the final leg of a four-game west coast road trip, beating Los Angeles Clippers 112-108 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Flight Home! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0mHpV6UU8Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0mHpV6UU8Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/1612305543640584193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trae Young scored 30 points De\u2019Andre Hunter added 20 for the Hawks, sending reeling Clippers to its season-worst sixth straight defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a big mark and I\u2019m happy he got it with us,\u201d said Young, who scored for a 110-108 lead before Kawhi Leonard and Marcus Morris missed three-point attempts on the same possession.<\/p>\n<p>Young, who had 14 points in the final fourth, got fouled and made both free throws to close out the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just got to keep building on it. We can\u2019t take no steps back,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta coach Nate McMillan earned his 750th career victory, putting him fourth all-time among active coaches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7\ufe0f\u20e35\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 W&#39;s<\/p>\n<p>The 4th-most wins among active NBA coaches and 18th all time \ud83d\udcc8<\/p>\n<p>Congrats Coach Mac! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCnZ4xxVu2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YCnZ4xxVu2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/1612307212692488193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Leonard finished with 29 points for Clippers while Ivica Zubac had 17 points and 18 rebounds on a night when Paul George missed his second straight game with right hamstring soreness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cTonight, we had a conscious effort of playing the right way so I can live with the results,\u201d Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cWe did some good things to get back in the game after being down. I liked our fight. Seeing what we did I was encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0422he Atlanta Hawks pieced together their best first half of the season \u043en the final leg of a four-game west coast road trip, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395458,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,17188,17189],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Atlanta coach Nate McMillan earned his 750th career victory","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395454"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395454"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}