{"id":511257,"date":"2026-04-16T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511257"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:31:14","slug":"warriors-beat-clippers-to-advance-to-the-play-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/warriors-beat-clippers-to-advance-to-the-play-in-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors beat Clippers to advance to the play-in tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steph Curry notched 27 of his 35 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Al Horford had his 4 three-pointers during the Warriors\u2019 electrifying 4th-quarter comeback, and the organization advanced in the NBA&#8217;s play-in tournament with a 126-121 win against the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen\u2019s 7<sup>th<\/sup> three-pointer broke a tie with less than a minute to play for the 10<sup>th<\/sup>-place Golden State, who came back from a 13-point deficit in the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors ended on a 16-6 run and held Kawhi Leonard scoreless in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> until the final seconds of the match.<\/p>\n<p>After this time-defying rally, Steph, Green, and the playoffs-tested Golden State are 1 match from another postseason berth despite going 37-45 in the regular campaign and losing Jimmy Butler for the campaign at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The team will travel to Phoenix to play the Suns tomorrow, with the winner facing OKC in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi notched 21 points for Los Angeles, who missed the postseason for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2022 and only the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> during a streak of 15 straight winning campaigns. LA led 98-85 with fewer than 10 minutes until the end, but ended up losing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A COMEBACK VICTORY IN A MUST-WIN CLASH!<\/p>\n<p>With just under 10 minutes to play, the Warriors trailed by 13 points. From there, GSW:<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Outscored LAC 41-23<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f Shot 14-18 (.778) from the field<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f Drained 8 threes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wwSTKQ2kDp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wwSTKQ2kDp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2044661004127052207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steph Curry notched 27 of his 35 points in the 2nd half, Al Horford had his 4 three-pointers during the Warriors\u2019 electrifying 4th-quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,17188],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17876,18478],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Golden State extended its campaign by winning against LA.","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\/511257"}],"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=511257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511258,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511257\/revisions\/511258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511257"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511257"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}