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Monday, April 3, 2017
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Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin (32) shoots past the lowly Lakers during their NBA clash on Saturday.AP
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LOS ANGELES – Comfortable leads have been shrinking lately for the Los Angeles Clippers. It happened again Saturday against the lowly Lakers.
Only after the Clippers inserted all of their starters in the fourth quarter did they finish off a 115-104 victory, the 800th of Doc Rivers’ coaching career.
Blake Griffin scored 36 points, Chris Paul added 29 and JJ Redick had 19 for the Clippers, who moved within a game of the idle Jazz for the No. 4 playoff seed in the West.
The Clippers have had little trouble stopping the Lakers, taking three of four in the season series. They’ve won 18 of 20 from their Staples Center co-tenant since the start of the 2012-13 season.
Griffin scored the game’s first basket on a jumper, giving him 10,000 points in his career. He is the second player in franchise history to reach that mark. Randy Smith scored 10,467 of his club-record 12,735 points when the team was known as the Buffalo Braves.
Rivers became the 15th coach in NBA history with 800 victories. Only Gregg Popovich of San Antonio (1,146) has more among active coaches.
”What I’ve learned most as a coach is persistence and patience,” Rivers said before the game. ”Patience with the players and myself. As a young coach you have a tendency to overreact to everything and change everything. I’ve learned not to sweat everything.” (AP)
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