It was a bittersweet Thursday for the Clippers.
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In the final moments before the noon trading deadline, the Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies agreed to a deal netting the Clippers forward Jeff Green in exchange for Lance Stephenson and a future protected first-round pick.
In what shapes as a blockbuster match, two of the top teams in the Western Conference do battle at the Staples Center, when the Los Angeles Clippers take on the San Antonio Spurs.
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“Well, it’s nice to beat anyone”, he said.
In it’s prime time game to welcome back basketball out of the All Star break, the NBA did not disappoint. Griffin is recovering from a broken hand and won’t play until sometime next month…. But it was nice to win. But I’m really excited and I’m pretty sure everybody else is.
The Spurs scored just 34 points in the first half, their fewest all season.
According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, San Antonio is favored on the road, as the Spurs are getting odds of -4.5 points against the Clippers.
Leonard, the club’s leading scorer at 20.2 points per game, was a late scratch due to tightness in his left calf. “We just could not execute enough to keep pace with them”. “They (the Clippers) definitely competed at a very high level and we never found our offensive rhythm”.
In their last ever matchup with Bryant, the Spurs hope to avoid their first back-to-back losses in a year Friday night with All-Star Kawhi Leonard likely to remain sidelined on this rodeo trip. The Lakers have lost eight of their last 10 home games against San Antonio.2.
Paul scored 18 points in the quarter when he also set up some nifty assists on a 3-pointer by Crawford and a monster dunk by DeAndre Jordan, who also played 37 minutes.
Crawford was stoked about the victory.
“We win together, we lose together”, West said. Starting both Tim Duncan and LaMarcus Aldridge gave them a decided size advantage over Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, but they were unable to capitalize at almost any point in this game.
Griffin was at the game in a suit.
The Clippers are 19-5 since Griffin’s initial injury.
Again, this could have been a real happy time for the Clippers. With the Spurs ahead of the Clippers in nearly every statistic, it should put them ahead in this one. All were on the same airplane.
Green previously played for Rivers with the Boston Celtics.
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“It was tough”, he said. You’ve just got to come out. You know, Monty…no one deserves anything like that, let alone someone like that. And he was probably one of the strongest ones in there, honestly.
