What was supposed to be a close battle between two Western Conference heavyweights ended up being everything but that on Thursday, as the LA Clippers defeated the Houston Rockets 120-105 in a game that wasn’t even that close.
The game seemed to be decided right after the jump ball, as the Clippers ended the first quarter with a 10-point lead and never looked back. The Clippers, in fact, went up by as many as 30 points in the game while Houston’s biggest lead was just two points early on.
While the final score was a slightly more respectable 15-point margin, it could’ve easily been more of a blowout if it wasn’t for garbage points in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter.