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With Kawhi Leonard out, Norman Powell is ready for latest Clippers crisis

LOS ANGELES — The NBA Summer League game was not yet over when Norman Powell walked over to a collection of Clippers executives last July. It was after 9 p.m., a time when many in the city are just beginning their nights. But the 6-foot-2 guard was saying goodbye, headed…

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Bill Plaschke: Kawhi or bust? The Clippers Curse strikes again.

LOS ANGELES — They played huge, outmanned but not outhustled, overrun but never overwhelmed.

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Short-handed Clippers fall to Devin Booker, Suns in Game 3

LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard pulled up to Crypto.com Arena 95 minutes before tip-off Thursday.

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Kawhi Leonard scores 38 as Clippers hustle way to Game 1 win over the Suns

PHOENIX — For 36 minutes Sunday, Russell Westbrook struggled mightily to make a shot.

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'No excuse': Tyronn Lue doesn't care if Clippers are underdogs against Suns

PHOENIX — Months ago, before injuries and setbacks to their star duo came to define the Clippers' season, many within the locker room and organization saw it playing out far differently.

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'Can't be sleeping right now': Behind-the-scenes look at NBA playoff preparation

Before the first game of Cleveland's opening-round playoff series of 2015, Cavaliers players gathered to watch a video meant for the team's eyes only.

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Clippers beat Trail Blazers to remain in playoff contention

LOS ANGELES — The Clippers left the regular season's penultimate day with the same answer applying to their three most pressing questions.

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Norman Powell, Kawhi Leonard lead Clippers to critical win over travel-weary Lakers

The playoff permutations remain vast. The potential matchups remain multiple. But whether in the play-in tournament or a first-round series, the Clippers and Lakers are assured of playing in the postseason.

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'A lot's at stake right now': What the Lakers-Clippers showdown means Wednesday

LOS ANGELES — In 2006, the Lakers were one win from forging a second-round matchup against the Clippers, the first time the franchises would have met in the postseason. They lost to Phoenix.

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'He's fitting in well': Why Russell Westbrook helps the Clippers more than he did with Lakers

LOS ANGELES — Before catching a flight back to Southern California late Saturday night, the player who spent high school in Lawndale and college in Westwood threw on a Dodgers cap.

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Pelicans hand Clippers second straight loss despite Kawhi Leonard’s 40 points

NEW ORLEANS — When the Clippers signed Kawhi Leonard in a landmark free-agency acquisition four years ago, the significance was obvious for all to see. A franchise beleaguered by a woeful record in high-stress moments now had their stone-faced closer, a two-time NBA Finals most valuable player whose pulse seemed…

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Paul George hopes he can return as Nicolas Batum, Kawhi Leonard carry Clippers over Bulls

Paul George doesn’t know when he will be ready to return from his sprained right knee, “but I’m gonna do whatever I can do to shorten the process,” the All-Star forward said on his podcast.

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Clippers’ blowout loss to Pelicans an ominous sign ahead of critical week

LOS ANGELES — To avoid the play-in tournament, or hold onto home-court advantage for a first-round series, the Los Angeles Clippers need a big finish to the regular season.

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Clippers take control in second half to beat Thunder without Paul George

LOS ANGELES — The image that returned Wednesday from the scan of Paul George’s injured right knee provided about as good of news as the Los Angeles Clippers could have hoped: George’s awkward land Tuesday after grabbing a rebound did not damage any ligaments – and the All-Star forward is…

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How ‘frothing at the mouth’ hatred for Eric Gordon forged his calming court presence

LOS ANGELES — Seeking stability in a season featuring little of it, the Clippers have turned to a player who wasn’t on the roster until a month ago.

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Clippers survive Stephen Curry’s 50-point game in big win vs. Warriors

Slipping down a San Francisco baseline past Phoenix’s Chris Paul late Monday, Stephen Curry claimed a basket and the final word.

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How fire, an AAU coach and a game of H-O-R-S-E connected Clippers teammates — 10 years ago

LOS ANGELES — Skip Robinson remembers the moment Bones Hyland first met Marcus Morris Sr. with vivid clarity, because seeing a middle-schooler issue a challenge to an NBA player 11 years his senior, before so much as saying hello, is not something that is easily forgotten.

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Kawhi Leonard scores 24 as Clippers pull away from Raptors

Eyes on the rim, feet at the stripe, Kawhi Leonard set himself to shoot a free-throw in Wednesday's first half when a cry arose from section 112 inside Crypto.com Arena.

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Losing streak over: Paul George, Kawhi Leonard power confounding Clippers to comeback

The Clippers began this season believing their depth and talent would put them in a class apart within the Western Conference.

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Clippers rally late but are edged at Sacramento for their fifth loss in a row

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Los Angeles Clippers guard Norman Powell arrived at Golden 1 Center before Friday night’s tipoff against the Sacramento Kings with his left arm still in a sling, a day after injuring his shoulder while reaching out to stop a would-be Golden State rebounder.

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'Intrigued by what I saw': Russell Westbrook's Clippers debut cost Terance Mann minutes

LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard called it "ridiculous."

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Helene Elliott: 'It's crazy': Russell Westbrook's debut was part fit, part folly

LOS ANGELES — When the Clippers signed Russell Westbrook this week, coach Tyronn Lue said he wasn't expecting miracles from the nine-time All-Star and future Hall of Famer. The Clippers, Lue said, "want Russ to be Russ."

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Clippers score team-record 175 points but still lose in double-OT thriller to Kings

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.

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'We want Russ to be Russ.' Clippers up to the challenge of winning with Russell Westbrook.

LOS ANGELES — Russell Westbrook entered his career's latest chapter Wednesday through a side door of the Clippers' practice facility, taking a seat on a podium surrounded by more cameras and microphones than have shown up at the Playa Vista headquarters in five months.

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Paul George, Terance Mann help Clippers fend off Suns

PHOENIX — Long, languid strides brought Kevin Durant, the 13-time All-Star in all-black, from one end of Footprint Arena’s court to a chair at its middle Thursday. A personal highlight reel played on a jumbotron overhead, and a midday crowd packed into one side of the arena’s lower bowl howled…

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