Warriors rout Clippers 115-98 for 7th straight win over LA

No Clipper starter scored more than 15 points; only one Warriors starter scored less than 16 points.

Meanwhile, the Nets celebrated just their sixth win of the season when they held off a fourth quarter charge from Denver Nuggets to win 116-111.

Just when it seemed as though the Cavaliers were capable of challenging for the top spot on this list they dropped three in a row with losses to the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Clippers and Chicago Bulls.

On their rise toward surpassing the Lakers as the best team in Los Angeles, the Clippers have carried themselves with the swagger of a champion but while wearing gilded bling.

Rivers said he wants to play the Warriors 10 more times this season, but the Clippers shouldn’t be considered an emerging and suitable rival. Hood aggravated the lingering ailment during Tuesday’s 112-105 victory over the Phoenix Suns and it will hurt the Jazz to not have his services against Golden State. The Warriors cruised to their seventh straight victory over the Clippers, winning 115-98 in a game that felt like it was won by twice that amount.

“He beat me in golf, which was very disappointing”, Rivers said. Tonight they see it. That’s how they (the Warriors) play. “That’s what made it interesting”, Durant said after Wednesday’s morning shootaround. Maybe even improved it.

“That’s one of the things we do”, Portland coach Terry Stotts said.

“They’re aggressive. They try to take away your air space”. Redick is a world-class shooter and he opens up the rest of the Clippers offense, but they never gave him an ounce of daylight. J.J. Redick didn’t get a bucket until halfway through the first quarter. He saw how the Clippers lost their composure and committed 10 turnovers – in the first quarter. Whatever you’re trying to change to be a different team or different something, you always have a setback. Although the Warriors got off to a rocky start and still rank just ninth in the league for defensive efficiency, they are now ranked first for blocks and steals. “Guys just got to sacrifice, do some other things than scoring, do some other things than your personal goal”. Just try something new. They saw Blake Griffin cough the ball up five times in the first six minutes. Austin Rivers and Crawford missed consecutive shots they had no business taking, which again allowed the Warriors to get out and fly in transition. They threw up bricks of their own, and threw one bad pass after another.

“I didn’t think we had great legs down the stretch of that run”.

“I think (he won’t), but I don’t think you’re ever through any of those woods, so I can’t say anything”, Doc Rivers said. It was a word they didn’t even want to say. You play San Antonio – they’ve been the world champs. “So, we’ve got some work to do, obviously”.

“I hate turnovers. I despise them”, Rivers said. They already lead the National Basketball Association in deflections, and their team-wide length shrinks the court impressively, and that’s without Andrew Bogut, the rim guardian whom they let go to Dallas in free agency.

If it’s a tag the Clippers already carried, however, it’s not likely to get better after Wednesday. Los Angeles hosts the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday. “The scouting report for us when we go against an opponent is to break their spirit”, Griffin said discounting Speights’ comments. “It’s over with. They beat us”.