Needing a win to be certain they avoid a play-in game, the Clippers struggled early Sunday before winning in Phoenix to set up series against the Suns.
A regular season in which the Clippers made nothing look easy ended Sunday in the only way appropriate.
Leonard finished with 25 points, 15 rebounds and six assists. Norman Powell scored 29 off the bench, and Russell Westbrook scored 25 points, with eight assists and seven rebounds. The Clippers squeaked by while shooting 55% in the fourth quarter and outrebounding the Suns 19-9. This wasn’t the Clippers playing with gamesmanship to maneuver their way into a preferred seed; this was just fatigued, ineffective basketball.
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