{"id":440279,"date":"2025-05-02T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440279"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:02:04","slug":"ty-lues-late-night-calls-fire-up-clippers-to-force-game-7-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ty-lues-late-night-calls-fire-up-clippers-to-force-game-7-vs-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Lue\u2019s Late-Night Calls Fire Up Clippers to Force Game 7 vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1889\"><strong data-start=\"1471\" data-end=\"1485\">Tyronn Lue<\/strong> wasn\u2019t relying on group chats or motivational quotes \u2014 he called every <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1569\">Clippers<\/strong> player the night before Game 6 to deliver a clear message: <em data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1647\">We can win this.<\/em> On Thursday night, that belief turned into action. <strong data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1715\">James Harden<\/strong> led the charge with 28 points over 47 grueling minutes, while <strong data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1795\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1817\">Norman Powell<\/strong> added crucial firepower in the 111-105 win over the <strong data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1888\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"2311\">The turning point? Lue inserted <strong data-start=\"1923\" data-end=\"1940\">Nicolas Batum<\/strong> to open the second half, replacing <strong data-start=\"1976\" data-end=\"1989\">Kris Dunn<\/strong> and unlocking spacing for Harden. Batum responded with elite two-way play, defending both <strong data-start=\"2080\" data-end=\"2090\">Murray<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2095\" data-end=\"2104\">Jokic<\/strong>. \u201cBatum\u2019s going to start next game, no doubt,\u201d said Jokic. With Lue now 11-5 all-time in elimination games, the Clippers head to <strong data-start=\"2234\" data-end=\"2244\">Game 7<\/strong> in Denver with momentum \u2014 and a belief forged in late-night calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2313\" data-end=\"2327\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1174\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44960552\/james-harden-powers-gritty-clippers-nuggets-force-game-7\"><em data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1174\">Fonte: ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fueled by Harden\u2019s 28 points and a key halftime adjustment, the Clippers beat Denver 111-105 and send the series back to Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Gp61KwKawAE12x_-scaled.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440279"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440279"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440279"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}