After 14 games, the long-awaited Kawhi Leonard-Paul George tandem made its debut for the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday.
It wasn’t always pretty.
But it was effective as the Clippers won a 107-104 overtime thriller over the Boston Celtics.
For much of the night, the Clippers leaned on their defense to overcome their own offensive struggles. And when they found themselves facing a 10-point fourth quarter deficit, they looked to familiar faces who didn’t arrive in the biggest transaction of a busy NBA offseason.
Lou Williams and Patrick Beverley traded big buckets in the fourth quarter as Williams capped a 10-0 Los Angeles run with a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws to take a 97-94 lead with 20.