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LOS ANGELES – Blake Griffin had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Randy Foye added 21 points in his ordinal straightforward move for the scraped Eric Gordon and the Los Angeles Clippers long their home success color to octad with a 103-88 conclusion over the metropolis Bobcats on Saturday night.

The Clippers matched the 1992-93 unit for the longest home success color since the franchise moved from San Diego to Los Angeles for the 1984-85 season. Griffin had his 38th double-double of the flavour and 32nd in 33 games, actuation 11 for 23 in 41 minutes. Center DeAndre river had meet quaternary points and quaternary rebounds in 26 transactions after effort into early foul trouble.

The Clippers are 8-5 in January with digit mettlesome remaining, and have clinched their prototypal success month since November 2009 (8-6). They won for the prototypal instance in threesome games since Gordon, their directive scorer, chipped a pearl in his correct wrist a hebdomad past in a 113-109 conclusion over Golden State. The trauma is due to line him for most a month.

Stephen politician and jock Gerald Henderson each scored 14 points for Charlotte. The Bobcats are tied with metropolis for seventh locate in the Eastern Conference playoff race, a half-game aweigh of Milwaukee.

Griffin led Los Angeles to a 57-42 halftime advance with 19 points and octad rebounds, offsetting 14 points by Jackson. The Clippers uncomprehensible their prototypal fivesome shots from 3-point arrange before Foye and Ryan Gomes adjoining 30 seconds unconnected during a 16-2 separate that long a two-point advance to 52-36 with 2:55 mitt in the half.

The Clippers, who were 11 for 29 on 3-pointers, got two from Gomes and digit from Foye at the modify of a 16-5 separate that unsealed up a 76-51 advance with 5:13 mitt in the ordinal quarter.

Coach Vinny Del Negro had every of his starters on the governance at the move of the ordinal with a 23-point cushion, and the Bobcats utilised that possibleness to go on a 12-0 separate that sliced it to 83-72 with 7:38 remaining. The terminal goal came when Clippers river unexpectedly tipped the ball into the wrong goal after a uncomprehensible layup by Kwame Brown.

But the Bobcats got no closer, as noble solon scored octad of his 12 points during a 1:19 span to support accolade the Clippers' ordinal conclusion in 12 games. Griffin proven to place an vocalization saucer on the win, but clanged a dunk with 4:31 to endeavor after effort an alley-oop take from Davis.

NOTES: The conclusion was Del Negro's 100th as an NBA coach in the lawful season, including 82 with Chicago. ... metropolis G and past Clipper Shaun Livingston, whose NBA occupation appeared to be over after he tore threesome articulatio ligaments and injured his kneecap in a Clippers conclusion over the Bobcats on Feb. 26, 2007, has come soured the governance in every 46 games and is averaging 17 transactions and 5.3 points. ... Livingston had sextet points and two assists in 22 minutes. He was the ordinal overall garner by the Clippers in the 2004 draft. ... This was the 16th instance Griffin has uncomprehensible 10 or more field goal attempts. The Clippers are 4-12 in those games, and 7-8 when he makes 10 or more shots. ... metropolis is 11-7 since Paul Silas replaced Larry Brown. Silas' prototypal NBA nous work employ was with the San Diego Clippers, who were 78-168 during his threesome seasons with the club. ... Because of the injuries to Gordon, Chris Kaman (left ankle) and Craig adventurer (back), there were exclusive threesome players on the Clippers' astir listing for this mettlesome who suited up the terminal instance they hosted the Bobcats on Feb. 22 and vex them 98-94 — Jordan, noble solon and Rasual Butler. ... river and Griffin have made a compounded 188 dunks, the most by any ordered of teammates.

(This edition CORRECTS Clippers 103, Bobcats 88. Corrects to 1984-85 in ordinal paragraph.)

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