Warriors vs Clippers Final Score: Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg Scores a Career-High 37 as Golden State Wins Its Fourth Straight, 124-112
Golden State rested Stephen Curry and Draymond Green and still won its fourth straight game on Sunday night. Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg hit six 3-pointers and scored a career-best 37 points in a 124-112 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in San Francisco.
The name leading the late Sunday search demand did it again. Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg drained six 3-pointers as the foundation for a career-best 37 points, and the Golden State Warriors - resting Stephen Curry and Draymond Green - recorded their fourth straight win, 124-112 over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night in San Francisco, Reuters reported in a file opened and read directly by the desk this run.
Lendeborg's previous high was 31, set in a victory at Denver last Monday that began the Warriors' winning streak, Reuters reported. On Sunday he shot 13-for-19 from the field and 6-for-11 from beyond the arc, added six assists, and had 19 of his 37 points by halftime. De'Anthony Melton added 21 points, and Brandon Williams and Brandin Podziemski scored 17 apiece - Podziemski with 15 of his in the second half, plus eight rebounds and a game-high eight assists. Charles Bassey, starting at center, was the game's leading rebounder with 10.
Los Angeles made Golden State work for it. The visitors led by as many as 11 in the first quarter behind a 10-0 burst, and after falling behind 83-68 on a Lendeborg 3-pointer with 5:20 left in the third, the Clippers cut the margin to seven by period's end and were within eight until Lendeborg's fifth 3-pointer with 8:29 to go restored a double-digit lead, Reuters reported. Rui Hachimura, hitting four 3-pointers, led the Clippers with 24 points; Darius Garland had 15 points and a team-high seven assists, reserves Kobe Sanders and Nick Martinelli added 16 and 10, and Kris Dunn recorded seven steals with 12 points. The Clippers, who dropped their fifth straight, played without Brandon Ingram, Bradley Beal, Jordan Miller and Max Strus.
The short turnaround is the file's last fact: the game was played on the same court where the Golden State Valkyries captured the WNBA championship 24 hours earlier, on the front end of a Warriors back-to-back - Curry and Green are expected back when Golden State hosts the Phoenix Suns on Monday night, Reuters reported.
