{"id":432883,"date":"2023-04-08T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432883"},"modified":"2023-04-08T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:55:34","slug":"clippers-top-blazers-136-125-and-wish-to-avoid-play-in","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-top-blazers-136-125-and-wish-to-avoid-play-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers top Blazers 136-125 and wish to avoid play-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard notched 27 points, Norman Powell finished with 23, and LA Clippers got a crucial victory over Portland Trail Blazers 136-125 and can secure a top 6<sup>th<\/sup> finish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CLIPPERS WIN!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVS1bMCwFW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iVS1bMCwFW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LA Clippers (@LAClippers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAClippers\/status\/1644827537812635650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russell Westbrook scored 20 points, and the franchise from Los Angeles won 4 of their last 6 matches. They are currently in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> place in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Clippers can ensure a finish in the top 6 in the Western Conference with a victory against Phoenix Suns tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Knox II, Shaedon Sharpe, and Trendon Watford scored more than 20 points each, but Portland lost for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time in a row and for the 8<sup>th<\/sup> time in their last 9 games.<\/p>\n<p>Portland will finish the regular season at home against Golden State Sunday, while Los Angeles will make a trip to play against Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfnvJ5-Dq0Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard notched 27 points, Norman Powell finished with 23, and LA Clippers got a crucial victory over Portland Trail Blazers 136-125 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432884,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17651,17837,16847],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18681,17557,18063,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Los Angeles Clippers beat Portland on Saturday at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA.","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\/432883"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432883"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432883"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}