Westbrook is also now averaging 30.7 points, 10.5 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game as he attempts to join Robertson on one of the most exclusive lists in all of sports. But we’ve just got to hope for the best. “We need to be more physical”.
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“No”, Westbrook said. “It’s a road game”.
“It’s easy to say we were supposed to be together for the rest of our careers, but it didn’t play out like that”, Durant said. CP3 missed 12-of-14 games in a stretch in the middle of the season in 2012-13 and the Clippers went 6-6. Using a similar method to my championships added analysis, I looked at how often players have made the conference finals since the playoffs took their current 16-team format in 1984 as compared to their regular-season WARP totals then found the exponential curve that best predicts the chances.
It was a week of retribution as the Clippers avenged losses to the Lakers and Thunder in back-to-back games.
Six-to-eight weeks is not that long in the National Basketball Association.
There will be no gameday suspense as to Steven Adams’ status.
“They were great”, Clippers head coach Doc Rivers said of playing the two centers together.
The biggest question heading into the Los Angeles Clippers’ 2016-17 campaign: Would the core of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, and J.J. Redick remain intact for 2017-18? With games against Cleveland (tonight) and the Rockets (Friday) on the docket this week, however, we could be seeing another shake-up to the top of the rankings by next Monday.
When both are out, the team is pretty bad. “But I’ve still got a job to do”.
It’s tough to get the math to work exactly even in a trade, so unless the Clippers find a deal where a team has cap space, making a trade could be complicated. Monday, though, it was very clear the team’s rim-protector wasn’t there.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was honored before the game with a video tribute and a choir at a halftime.
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Four players are averaging at least 10.7 points per game for the Warriors, they are: Kevin Durant (25.8), Stephen Curry (24.6), Thompson (21.4) and Draymond Green (10.7). They split their first two meetings, with the Thunder taking a 85-33 win in Los Angeles last November 2 and the Clippers evening out the series with a 110-108 victory in Oklahoma during their second meeting last November 11.
