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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…

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.

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.

LOS ANGELES — It is the topic that has never been extinguished for as long as the Clippers partnership with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George began nearly four years ago.

LOS ANGELES — By the time the Los Angeles Clippers pulled into San Antonio last Thursday they had lost nine of their previous 11 games and, with each passing day, valuable time to steer themselves out of their skid.

LOS ANGELES — The injury list grew yet again for the Clippers, leaving it up to Kawhi Leonard and the rest of the healthy group to push forward through this turbulent season, taking on the young, talented and also shorthanded Houston Rockets.

LOS ANGELES — For the past month, Kawhi Leonard’s ability to dictate pace was back. His shooting has picked up. His play-making had garnered notice. The last question about his recovery from a 2021 knee injury, for league insiders, was whether or when his explosion would return.

Last week, after a fifth straight Clippers loss, there was no team meeting in the visitors' locker room at Target Center in Minneapolis. There were no grand pronouncements among players.

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.