SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers continued their west coast swing late tonight, in L.A against the once again lowly Clippers. Still riding high off their upset of Shaq and the Suns the Sixers rolled in and rolled over the Clips. Six Sixers scored in double figures on the night(Andre Iguodala, Willie Green, Thaddeus Young, Samuel Dalembert, Louis Williams, Rodney Carney) with Iggy's 18 leading the way. Defensively, Slammin Sammy led the way with 12 rebounds and 2 blocks, as the Sixers out rebounded the Clips 33-27 and forced them into 18 costly turnovers. In the first quarter of play, the Sixers jumped out to a 4 point lead, with the score 25-21. In the 2nd quarter of play, the Sixers continued to extend their lead and by the half they led by 12, with the score 54-42. In the 3rd quarter of play, L.A attempted to push back into it, but the Sixers held firm and actually pushed their lead up to 14, with the score 73-59. Finally, in the 4th quarter of play, the Sixers ran away with it, or perhaps the Clippers just packed it in, but at any rate, when all was said and done the Sixers had won going away 106-80. So the Sixers improve to 28-33 overall and jump back up to 7th in the Eastern conference and 3rd in the Atlantic division.