{"id":428462,"date":"2023-03-06T02:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428462"},"modified":"2023-03-06T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:08:29","slug":"la-clippers-defeat-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/la-clippers-defeat-memphis-grizzlies\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Clippers defeat Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor run of form LA Clippers finally managed to overturn the tide after an enthralling victory over Memphis Grizzlies 135-129 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CLIPPERS WIN!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ReNqAYjmXb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ReNqAYjmXb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LA Clippers (@LAClippers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAClippers\/status\/1632618627349508098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt didn&#8217;t look good for the LA team, who at one point were trailing by 15 points against a Memphis side thah was missing key players such as Ja Morant, Dillon Brooks, Steven Adams, and Brandon Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>However, they showed real character, and in the second half staged a stunning comeback to ensure an emphatic win and end their 5-game losing streak.<br \/>\nKawhi Leonard and Paul George were the stars of the show as they scored 34 and 42 points respectively<\/p>\n<p>New Los Angeles Clippers point guard Russell Westbrok says that that the energy in the building made it even that much more fun during his first win with the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did a good job of closing out the game tonight, getting some defensive stops. I think they scored [17] points in the fourth,&#8221; the delighted Westbrook said. When asked what the Clippers are capable of, he said, &#8220;I already know. My job is to keep instilling confidence in Paul and Kawhi to do this every single night. The rest of us do our part, we&#8217;re gonna be a hard team to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LA Clippers will be looking to carry the momentum against Toronto, who they face on Thursday night. Memphis in turn have a trip to Los Angelese, where they will play against Lakers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor run of form LA Clippers finally managed to overturn the tide after an enthralling victory over Memphis Grizzlies 135-129 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17987,17651,16884,17988,17363],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Russel Westbrook secured his first win as Clippers player","video":["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\/428462"}],"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=428462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428462"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428462"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}