{"id":476316,"date":"2025-12-29T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476316"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:53:52","slug":"kawhi-leonard-drops-career-high-55-as-clippers-beat-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kawhi-leonard-drops-career-high-55-as-clippers-beat-pistons\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard drops career-high 55 as Clippers beat Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1694\"><strong data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1469\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> poured in a <strong data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1507\">career-high 55 points<\/strong> as the <strong data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1530\">LA Clippers<\/strong> defeated the <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1570\">Detroit Pistons 112-99<\/strong> in Inglewood. Despite approaching the franchise scoring record, Leonard limited his fourth-quarter minutes to stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1935\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"1707\" data-end=\"1721\">Tyronn Lue<\/strong> confirmed Leonard was aware of the record chase, but the star opted for caution. The mark remains shared with teammate <strong data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1857\">James Harden<\/strong>, who praised Leonard\u2019s smooth and efficient offensive display after the game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1937\" data-end=\"2227\">After battling knee, ankle, and foot issues in recent seasons, Leonard is finding rhythm again. Following a 41-point outing versus the <strong data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2091\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> and a win over the <strong data-start=\"2111\" data-end=\"2133\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>, he joins <strong data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2158\">Bob McAdoo<\/strong> as the only Clippers with 40-plus points in back-to-back home games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard delivers a career night, lifting the LA Clippers past the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":410304,"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-476316","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\/2024\/10\/Los-Angeles-Clippers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476316","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=476316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476316"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476316"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476316"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}