Los Angeles Clippers

After getting his contract bought out by the Utah Jazz, Russell Westbrook landed with the Los Angeles Clippers. According to Brian Windhorst from ESPN, ...

The guard has been averaging 15.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 7.5 assists this season. "From what I understand, they were internally against it at the start." [D'Angelo Russell](https://basketnews.com/players/17893-dangelo-russell.html), [Malik Beasley](https://basketnews.com/players/19144-malik-beasley.html), and [Jared Vanderbilt](https://basketnews.com/players/22986-jarred-vanderbilt.html). [Utah Jazz](https://basketnews.com/teams/670-utah-jazz.html), [Russell Westbrook](https://basketnews.com/players/6405-russell-westbrook.html) landed with the [Los Angeles Clippers](https://basketnews.com/teams/356-los-angeles-clippers.html). [Los Angeles Lakers](https://basketnews.com/teams/357-los-angeles-lakers.html) guard.

Malik Monk scored a career-high 45 points, De'Aaron Fox had the go-ahead basket and finished with 42 and the Sacramento Kings beat the Los Angeles Clippers ...

Malik Monk scored 45 points off the bench and De'Aaron Fox added 42 points and 12 assists as the visiting Sacramento Kings pulled off a 176-175 ...

Malik Monk scored a career-high 45 points, De'Aaron Fox had the go-ahead basket and finished with 42 and Sacramento outlasted the Los Angeles Clippers 176-175 ...

The Clippers had a 162-156 lead with 3:04 remaining in the first overtime before the Kings scored six straight to even it. Los Angeles had a chance to win it, but Leonard was unable to put in a tip in at the buzzer. Los Angeles had a 145-131 advantage with 4:25 remaining before the Kings rallied back to force overtime with a 22-8 run. He was 16 of 22 from the field, including six 3-pointers, in 46 minutes. Sacramento center Domantas Sabonis played only 31 minutes after being in foul trouble most of the night. The Clippers had a 175-169 advantage with 1:57 remaining before the Kings scored the final seven points, including Fox's jumper with 36.5 seconds remaining. We were on the second night of a back-to-back but it is what it is. The last to do it was James Harden in 2019. It is the second time it has happened in an NBA game this season after Cleveland's Caris LeVert and Donovan Mitchell did it against Boston. Kawhi Leonard scored a season-high 44 points for Los Angeles and Paul George added 34. A team has scored 170 points in a regular-season game only seven times. It is only the second time in the NBA's 76-year history that both teams have scored at least 170 points.

Malik Monk celebrates after the Sacramento Kings beat the Los Angeles Clippers in double overtime. Adam Pantozzi/NBAE/Getty Images. CNN ...

And Westbrook – who became just the second players ever to start a game for both the Clippers and the Lakers in the same season since the Clippers moved to LA in 1984-85 – had 17 points, 14 assists and five rebounds to go with seven turnovers. And yet again in overtime, the Clippers had a slender lead but could not hold on as Sacramento once again came racing back, with Fox’s bucket with 36.5 seconds remaining the final score. There was high-level talent that was on display. It looked as if the new-look Clippers would have been able to wrap up a high-scoring evening in regulation time on Friday, holding a 145-131 lead with just 4:25 left in the fourth quarter. Kudos to the players.” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue called it a “crazy game” with “a lot of momentum shifts,” while Kings coach Mike Brown said the spectators in attendance will have gone home happy.

Only once has an NBA game seen more offensive fireworks: The Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 on Dec. 13, 1983, in three overtimes.

To squeak out the win, Monk hit a game-tying three-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining in regulation and a pair of game-tying free throws with 20.4 seconds remaining in the first overtime. The Kings are on track to snap a 16-year postseason run, the league’s longest current drought. Fox finished off the win with a go-ahead jumper with 36 seconds to play. With the win, Sacramento improved to 34-25, good for the Western Conference’s No. But even by the standard of the ongoing scoring boom, this contest was in a category all to itself. Clippers forward Nicolas Batum missed a potential game-winning three-pointer just before the buzzer sounded. The teams combined to attempt 86 three-pointers and 71 free throws. The Kings set a franchise scoring record, surpassing the 165 points scored by the then-Cincinnati Royals against the San Diego Rockets in 1970. Unsurprisingly, almost everyone who took the court got his share of buckets Friday as 14 players — seven from each side — finished in double figures. The Kings and Clippers combined to smash the previous record for the second-highest score, 337 points in the San Antonio Spurs’ 171-166 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on March 6, 1982, in three overtimes. 13, 1983, for a combined score of 370 points in three overtimes. The teams finished regulation tied at 153 and were deadlocked at 164 after the first overtime period.