{"id":491096,"date":"2025-03-19T03:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491096"},"modified":"2025-03-19T03:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:27:40","slug":"clippers-ovverpower-cavaliers-leonard-shines-with-33-points","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-ovverpower-cavaliers-leonard-shines-with-33-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers ovverpower Cavaliers, Leonard shines with 33 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"280\">Kawhi Leonard led the way with 33 points as the Los Angeles Clippers took down the Eastern Conference-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/a><\/a> 132-119 on Tuesday night, handing them their second consecutive loss.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"460\">Ivica Zubac delivered a dominant performance with 28 points and 20 rebounds, while James Harden contributed 22 points and nine assists in the Clippers&#8217; fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Clippers&#8217; Big 3\ufe0f\u20e3 came up HUGE in a win over the Cavaliers in LA \ud83d\udcaa\u2693 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HnHvg1iFuH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HnHvg1iFuH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1902225038276771985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"737\">Max Strus posted a season-high 24 points for the Cavaliers, who saw their 16-game winning streak snapped on Sunday against Orlando. Despite the back-to-back defeats, Cleveland still maintains a comfortable lead in the East with less than a month left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"882\">Donovan Mitchell added 18 points and 11 assists, and Evan Mobley returned from a one-game absence due to a foot contusion, scoring 17 points.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"1075\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Playing without head coach Tyronn Lue for the fourth time recently, the Clippers overcame a 12-point deficit early, showcasing resilience as they continue their push to secure a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"1075\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0BeL4tyna84?si=kYpvkfORYeFsxNNn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard led the way with 33 points as the Los Angeles Clippers took down the Eastern Conference-leading Cleveland Cavaliers 132-119 on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":491099,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17531,17987,17188],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18066,18927,18478],"acf":{"announce":"Eastern Conference leaders suffered their second straight defeat on Tuesday night","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\/491096"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491100,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491096\/revisions\/491100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491096"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491096"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}