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New York Knicks vs. LA Clippers

January 7, 2026 · 2025-26 season

The Knicks beat the Clippers 123-111 on 2026-01-07 at home. The Knicks started Karl-Anthony Towns, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, Jalen Brunson, and Miles McBride. The Clippers started James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Kris Dunn, Ivica Zubac, and John Collins. Kawhi Leonard (Clippers) scored 15 points (6/12) in his matchups, with OG Anunoby as his primary defender. Jalen Brunson (Knicks) scored 10 points (4/9) in his matchups, with Kris Dunn as his primary defender.

Box score

In orange, the game high in points, rebounds and assists.

NYK

New York Knicks 123

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Miles McBride GS	33:29	16	1	4	1	1	0	3	6-15	4-11	0-0	-1
Jalen Brunson GS	33:19	26	3	7	0	1	2	2	9-12	4-5	4-4	-6
Mikal Bridges GS	32:57	15	9	5	1	1	1	0	7-14	1-3	0-0	+10
OG Anunoby GS	31:57	20	3	0	1	0	2	3	8-10	2-3	2-2	+7
Karl-Anthony Towns GS	31:12	20	11	7	1	1	2	1	6-18	0-4	8-10	+16
Mitchell Robinson	24:28	4	9	1	0	2	0	1	2-5	0-0	0-0	+14
Jordan Clarkson	20:41	12	3	2	1	0	1	3	5-9	1-3	1-1	+2
Tyler Kolek	14:26	2	4	5	0	0	2	3	1-4	0-1	0-0	+18
Guerschon Yabusele	13:08	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	3-6	2-2	0-0	+1
Mohamed Diawara	1:47	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0-1	0-1	0-0	-1
Pacôme Dadiet	1:18	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Ariel Hukporti	1:18	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Totals		123	48	31	5	6	10	17	47-94	14-33	15-17

LAC

LA Clippers 111

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
James Harden GS	37:50	23	3	9	1	0	3	1	6-17	4-7	7-7	-5
Kawhi Leonard GS	36:16	25	3	4	3	0	3	1	10-20	3-7	2-3	-14
John Collins GS	33:04	18	10	0	1	0	1	4	7-9	3-5	1-1	-7
Kris Dunn GS	31:52	7	4	1	0	0	1	2	2-9	1-6	2-2	-4
Ivica Zubac GS	30:30	22	11	2	0	2	1	5	11-14	0-0	0-0	-10
Nicolas Batum	18:01	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1-5	1-5	0-0	-5
Kobe Sanders	17:21	0	1	3	1	1	0	2	0-3	0-1	0-0	-8
Brook Lopez	15:58	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	2-8	2-8	0-0	-3
Jordan Miller	14:32	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	1-4	1-3	3-4	-7
Kobe Brown	1:32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	+1
Cam Christie	1:32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	+1
Yanic Konan Niederhäuser	1:32	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0-2	0-0	1-2	+1
Totals		111	40	21	7	5	10	16	40-92	15-42	16-19

Lineups

NYK

New York Knicks

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Karl-Anthony Towns · OG Anunoby · Mikal Bridges · Jalen Brunson · Miles McBride Starter 18.1 min
Jordan Clarkson · Guerschon Yabusele · Mikal Bridges · Jalen Brunson · Mitchell Robinson 6.4 min
Karl-Anthony Towns · OG Anunoby · Mitchell Robinson · Miles McBride · Tyler Kolek 5.6 min
Guerschon Yabusele · Mikal Bridges · Jalen Brunson · Mitchell Robinson · Miles McBride 2.9 min
Jordan Clarkson · Karl-Anthony Towns · Mikal Bridges · Mitchell Robinson · Tyler Kolek 2.9 min

LAC

LA Clippers

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

James Harden · Kawhi Leonard · Kris Dunn · Ivica Zubac · John Collins Starter 24.7 min
Brook Lopez · Nicolas Batum · James Harden · Jordan Miller · Kobe Sanders 4.4 min
Brook Lopez · Nicolas Batum · James Harden · John Collins · Kobe Sanders 3.6 min
Nicolas Batum · Kawhi Leonard · Ivica Zubac · Jordan Miller · Kobe Sanders 3.5 min
Brook Lopez · Nicolas Batum · Kawhi Leonard · Jordan Miller · Kobe Sanders 3.0 min

Who guarded whom

Based on stats.nba.com matchup data. Points and shooting are always the offensive player's.

Knicks defense

Kawhi Leonard 15 pts (6/12) in 67 possessions

Guarded by: OG Anunoby (33 %, 7 pts) · Miles McBride (20 %, 3 pts) · Mikal Bridges (20 %, 0 pts)
James Harden 7 pts (3/6) in 69 possessions

Guarded by: Miles McBride (28 %, 0 pts) · Mikal Bridges (28 %, 2 pts) · Jalen Brunson (12 %, 2 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
OG Anunoby	Kawhi Leonard: 22 poss., 7 pts (3/3) · John Collins: 17 poss., 8 pts (3/4)
Mikal Bridges	James Harden: 19 poss., 2 pts (1/1) · Kawhi Leonard: 14 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Jalen Brunson	Kris Dunn: 31 poss., 12 pts (4/4) · John Collins: 9 poss., 3 pts (1/2)
Karl-Anthony Towns	Ivica Zubac: 26 poss., 13 pts (4/8) · Nicolas Batum: 8 poss., 2 pts (1/3)
Miles McBride	James Harden: 19 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Kawhi Leonard: 14 poss., 3 pts (1/4)
Mitchell Robinson	Brook Lopez: 16 poss., 2 pts (1/2) · Ivica Zubac: 14 poss., 0 pts (0/2)
Jordan Clarkson	Kobe Sanders: 8 poss., 5 pts (2/3) · Jordan Miller: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Tyler Kolek	Kobe Sanders: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Jordan Miller: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Guerschon Yabusele	John Collins: 7 poss., 6 pts (2/2) · James Harden: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Pacôme Dadiet	Cam Christie: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Kobe Sanders: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Mohamed Diawara	Kobe Brown: 2 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Yanic Konan Niederhäuser: 0 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Ariel Hukporti	Yanic Konan Niederhäuser: 2 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Kobe Brown: 0 poss., 0 pts (0/0)

Clippers defense

Jalen Brunson 10 pts (4/9) in 61 possessions

Guarded by: Kris Dunn (47 %, 0 pts) · John Collins (13 %, 3 pts) · James Harden (11 %, 2 pts)
Karl-Anthony Towns 17 pts (8/16) in 61 possessions

Guarded by: Ivica Zubac (40 %, 8 pts) · John Collins (18 %, 2 pts) · Nicolas Batum (16 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Kawhi Leonard	Mikal Bridges: 25 poss., 4 pts (2/4) · OG Anunoby: 23 poss., 13 pts (4/6)
James Harden	Miles McBride: 32 poss., 7 pts (1/5) · Mikal Bridges: 13 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
John Collins	OG Anunoby: 19 poss., 5 pts (2/2) · Guerschon Yabusele: 12 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Ivica Zubac	Karl-Anthony Towns: 25 poss., 8 pts (4/6) · Mitchell Robinson: 14 poss., 4 pts (2/3)
Kris Dunn	Jalen Brunson: 29 poss., 0 pts (0/4) · Miles McBride: 7 poss., 5 pts (2/3)
Nicolas Batum	Karl-Anthony Towns: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/2) · Jalen Brunson: 6 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
Kobe Sanders	Tyler Kolek: 13 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Jordan Clarkson: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/2)
Jordan Miller	Miles McBride: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Jordan Clarkson: 6 poss., 3 pts (0/0)
Brook Lopez	Mitchell Robinson: 12 poss., 3 pts (1/4) · Karl-Anthony Towns: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Kobe Brown	Jordan Clarkson: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Mohamed Diawara: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Yanic Konan Niederhäuser	Karl-Anthony Towns: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Ariel Hukporti: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Cam Christie	Pacôme Dadiet: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Mohamed Diawara: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0)