Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris Sr. score 27 apiece for the short-handed Clippers, but Brandon Ingram (30) helps New Orleans erase a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter for a 105-101 win.
LOS ANGELES — There’s always next year.
And then, to add an extra degree of difficulty to the task, the Clippers fell into a 16-point hole, falling behind to the sizable Pelicans squad by 45-29 with 7:11 left in the second quarter.But this time, the Clippers couldn’t hang on, finally succumbing at Crypto.com Arena, where the Pelicans – who began the season 1-12 – earned a date with the top-seeded Phoenix Suns in a best-of-seven first-round series. That series begins Sunday night.
It’s been that kind of season for the Clippers, who haven’t had Leonard a five-time All-Star, at all because of a torn ACL, and had George, a seven-time All-Star, for only 31 games after he was taken out by a torn elbow ligament. The Clippers had players miss a combined 345 games , and, per spotrac.com, they paid $74,069,847 to those unavailable players .
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