The Latest Breaking News from Nicolas Batum

LOS ANGELES — The Clippers hoped this season would end with the unprecedented.

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LOS ANGELES — White AirPods in his ears, his gaze locked onto the Sacramento highlights playing on a locker-room television, Russell Westbrook bobbed his head Friday night at a locker a few feet down the Crypto.com Arena hallway from his old one.

Five months into a Clippers season that has sometimes felt like a slog, feeling less like joy than a constant examination under a microscope of their own championship expectations, the impression imparted on forward Nicolas Batum after Monday's practice, the team's first with its three new additions, was notable.

The two veteran players sport a similar hairstyle and are about the same height and age.

NEW YORK — The pass from Paul George found Clippers wing Nicolas Batum in the right corner with 1.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.

“The baby Jokic, that’s what I call him,” Nicolas Batum says of Alperen Sengun. “It’s going to be a good test for us.” Batum and the Clippers host the #Rockets on Sunday.

After shaking up the Clippers' lineup Sunday, and with one month until the NBA's trade deadline, coach Tyronn Lue suggested more change is coming to the team's overcrowded guard rotation.

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PHILADELPHIA — Clippers teammates were gathering in the key and coaches were talking in a circle at midcourt, but Nicolas Batum was in no hurry to leave his courtside chair and begin shootaround on a late November morning.

LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Batum, as passionate a fan of France's national soccer team as there is, said he tried recovering from Les Bleus' World Cup final defeat by spending Sunday walking around Disneyland with his family.