Largest NBA postseason comeback
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The largest comeback in an NBA postseason game occurred in game two of the first round of the 2018-19 playoffs. The Clippers came back to win after trailing the Golden State Warriors by 31 points, 63-94, with 7:31 left in the third quarter. At that point, Steve Kerr started to rest some of his players early. Lou Williams would score 26 points with seven assists after that to help the Clippers win 135-131.
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.@landryshamet for the lead 🔥🔥🔥@LAClippers | #NBAPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/W3WaEgBONp
— Bally Sports West (@BallySportWest) April 16, 2019
🔥 @TeamLou23 scores 12 fourth-quarter PTS to help power the @LAClippers 135-131 road victory over GSW! #NBAPlayoffs #ClipperNation pic.twitter.com/I4PbwvOfdK
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Quotes
We have to keep fighting,...It is who we are. Let’s be us. Don’t change. Keep playing the way we play.
Doc Rivers
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Through the Lens: Clippers’ 31-Point Comeback at Oracle
It was so unbelievable, until it wasn’t. One year ago today, the Clippers completed the greatest comeback in NBA playoff history by storming back from 31 points down with 7:31 left in the third quarter to shock the two-time defending champion Warriors at Oracle Arena.
NBA
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LA Clippers pull off historic comeback in Game 2 playoff win over Golden State Warriors
Golden State led 94-63 with 7:31 remaining in the third quarter and had already started to rest key players to spare their legs, when Lou Williams sparked an extraordinary fightback from the visitors. It gave Steve Kerr’s men an unwanted slice of history, with the previous record playoff revival being the Los Angeles Lakers' resurgence from 29 points down to the Seattle Supersonics in 1989.
USA Today
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How the Clippers came back from 31 points down to shock the Warriors
That feeling of invincibility was challenged late Monday night, when the Warriors blew a 31-point second-half lead in a 135-131 loss to the LA Clippers on the same night they lost DeMarcus Cousins to a potentially season-ending quad injury.
ESPN
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LA Clippers stun Golden State Warriors with playoff-record comeback
Landry Shamet hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 16.5 seconds left, Stephen Curry couldn’t answer on the other end, and the Los Angeles Clippers climbed back from 31 points down to stun the Golden State Warriors 135-131 on Monday night and even their first-round playoff series at one game apiece.
The Guardian
