The Los Angeles Clippers beat the Washington Wizards on Tuesday (115-116) a game that they lost by 35 points, a great victory with which they equaled the second largest comeback in NBA history. Since there are detailed records in the league, the record is held by the Utah Jazz, who in 1996 came from behind a game against the Denver Nuggets who were losing by 36 points. Tonight’s Clippers match the 35-point comeback the Sacramento Kings pulled off against the Chicago Bulls in 2009.
In one of the most amazing and spectacular games so far this season, the Clippers were down 6 points with just 10.9 seconds to go after closing a huge gap in the second half. However, Luke Kennard hit a triple almost from the logo of the court with 8.2 seconds remaining and finished off the feat with another triple plus an additional shot that gave the Clippers their first lead in the entire game, which made the Los Angeles bench go crazy. and that stunned the Washington fans. “What happened… Great fight on this team! What a win!” Clippers hero Luke Kennard tweeted.
The Wizards seemed to have complete control of the game in the second quarter, when in the absence of 1.20 for the break they won by 35 points (66-31). They went to the locker room with a 66-36 lead, but in the second half the Angelenos were a hurricane and closed the last two quarters with an incontestable 49-80 run. Amir Coffey was the top scorer for the Clippers (29 points and 5 rebounds) in which Luke Kennard came close to a triple-double (25 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists). Bradley Beal was the highlight of the Wizards with 23 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. The Spanish Serge Ibaka played four minutes for the Clippers in which he missed his only shot to the basket while the Brazilian Raul Neto had no minutes for the Wizards.