Clippers vs. Thunder Game Day 2026-04-08

Oklahoma City Thunder

63-16 • 29-9 road

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LA Clippers

41-38 • 22-17 home

· 7:00 PM PT · TV: FanDuel SN OK / FanDuel SN SoCal

Spread: OKC -8.5 ·O/U: 225.5

Thunder

119.3 PPG

Clippers

114.0 PPG

Team Leaders

Thunder

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 31.3 PPG

Chet Holmgren 8.8 RPG

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 6.5 APG

Clippers

Kawhi Leonard 28.1 PPG

Kawhi Leonard 6.3 RPG

Kris Dunn 3.6 APG

Key Matchup

Kawhi Leonard (28.1 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 3.6 APG, 1.9 SPG, 0.4 BPG) vs Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (31.3 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 6.5 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.8 BPG)

Injury Report

Thunder

Out: Thomas Sorber

Clippers

Out: Darius Garland

Out: Isaiah Jackson

Out: Yanic Konan Niederhauser

Out: Bradley Beal

Season Series: OKC leads 2-0

The Clippers (22-17 at home) host the Thunder, who are 29-9 on the road. OKC is favored by 8.5 points.

What are your predictions? Who will step up?

Clips having a tough time converting inside, and unable to get stops. Down 19-9. Much needed 3 there as DJJ drills the bingo.

Clippers able to get their offense going a little better, as well as show better defensive intensity to close the Q, down 34-23.

Big 3's by Batum and now Miller- cuts it to 9. But it just feels Clippers have to work harder on offense, and still forced to take lower % looks

Clippers simply unable to contain dribble penetration, and on offense it feels like they're playing 5 on 10 as they're constantly having to deal with multiple defenders swiping and bumping.

What a sequence by Kawhi- steal, behind the back on the break and jam! Cuts it to 18

Lopez the corner bingo, now DJJ the catch and shoot 3- it's down to 13!

Good 3rd Q by the Clips as they cut it to 14. Got a chance now in the 4th. Win or lose, this is an excellent tuneup for the huge game on Friday vs the Pacers.

Misses by the Clips, and more 3's by Joe and the game is pretty much out of reach. Liking Sanders' play though- able to switch and guard Holmgren, and now drills the bingo with a Batum-like quick release

Mathurin who had been great at drawing fouls, not just can't buy a call

Isaiah Joe is quite the weapon for OKC- just a deadly 3 point shooter. That's a nifty euro step layup by Christie!

welp... looks like a blowout

Good 3rd Q by the Clips as they cut it to 14. Got a chance now in the 4th. Win or lose, this is an excellent tuneup for the huge game on Friday vs the Pacers.

*Blazers

Also we should not be tuning up (rather, tuning down) to play a 9 seed team... We should expect to beat these teams and we should be tuning UP (emphasis on UP) to play our first round match up, which may very likely be these OKC Thunder.

I do not expect us to beat them in a 7 game series, but getting a season sweep? average score of 126 to 106? Are they 20 points better than us?