Clippers’ Griffin to miss rest of playoffs with toe injury

He continued his turn-back-the-clock tour by going 12-of-17 from the field for 28 points in a season-high 35 minutes.

Clippers at Jazz, Los Angeles leads 2-1. But it was all for naught thanks to the lengthy fourth-quarter drought. For most teams, pressing forward without one of their star players is a hard task, but the Clippers are unlike most teams. “You go up 2-0, everyone says the series is over, right?”

After 111-106 win, Friday night in game 3, Los Angeles Clippers lock horns with Utah Jazz in the NBA Playoffs First Round, Game 4 tonight. Jamal in particular made huge shots whenever the Clippers’ offense bogged down, carrying them while Paul was out of the game for rest.

“We’ll worry about the game when it’s that time, but right now it’s about consoling one of the leaders of our team who this means more to him than anything”.

The Jazz closed the gap over the course of the second quarter and tied it on back-to-back baskets from Hood.

As a defender, the 6-foot-10 Griffin limited players he guarded to 43.6 percent shooting – 2.9 percent under than their normal shooting percentage.

But it was the 19-year old Vazquez who secured the win, coming on in stoppage time and promptly beating RSL keeper Matt Van Oekel to the ball for the easy shot into a wide open net. I just don’t see it happening with the Clips. They were able to reach postseason play and their first opponent was the Utah Jazz. Center Rudy Gobert returned Sunday after missing nearly all of the previous three games with a knee injury.

The Jazz, on the other hand, have been without center Rudy Gobert since the opening minute of Game 1, but the talented center could return for the critical Game 4 at Vivint Smart Home Arena.

Following his exit in Game 3, the Clippers outscored the Jazz 68-59, while fielding an offensive rating of 134.8 and a defensive rating of 120.3 for a net rating of plus-14.5. Paul’s 34 points, 10 assists and masterful closing performance in LA’s Game 3 win stood as yet another reminder that the Clippers remain his team.

How far can the Los Angeles Clippers go without Blake Griffin?

The Los Angeles Clippers announced Saturday morning that star forward Blake Griffin will miss the remainder of the postseason due to a toe injury.

Though the Clippers previously survived without Griffin, this was a game in which they missed him.

“We need his voice”, Jordan said.

“He obviously feels bad that he’s out, but it’s not his fault. They put him in a dark room with a towel over his head and that was it”.