Clippers beat depleted Lakers to end 5-game skid, home-court drought
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INGLEWOOD — Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said the team’s goal is to go 35-20 the rest of the season. After thinking about it, he changed it to 36-19, to give the team a winning record. The idea seemed far-fetched before the Clippers faced the Lakers on Saturday night at the Intuit Dome. Winning even 10 games seemed undoable as the team slowly sunk to near the bottom of the Western Conference standings with just six victories through 27 games. But then the unthinkable happened. The Clippers (7-21) overwhelmed a short-handed, cold-shooting Lakers team, 103-88, to snap a five-game losing streak in front of a slightly pro-Lakers...