The Clippers will be without two key veterans in Kawhi Leonard and Bradley Beal when they host the reigning NBA champs Thunder Tuesday night.

So much for that championship hangover. Jalen Williams hasn’t played yet, Chet Holmgren is dealing with a balky back, Lu Dort just missed a game because of illness … and the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder are still just rolling along, off to a 7-0 start despite using four different starting lineups in those seven games.

The Clippers have some uncertainty surrounding their lineup tonight as Kawhi Leonard and Bradley Beal are listed as questionable. This is the second night of a back-to-back as Los Angeles lost to Miami 120-119 yesterday.

Such was the case last year, when the Thunder went 68-14 and won the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed by 16 games. Put that into some perspective: Oklahoma City could have ended the season on an 18-game losing streak and it still would have won the No. 1 seed at 53-29, or one game better than Houston’s 52-30.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Myles Turner was disheartened to be met with boos in his return to Indiana but the Milwaukee Bucks had the last word with a 117-115 victory on a buzzer beating jump shot from Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Chet Holmgren's has had the most unfortunate and fortunate starts to an NBA career. First, jacking up his foot in a pro-am game against LeBron James which sidel

Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones "Roam the Baseline" with a few Western Conference shoutouts -- and a hat tip to a hot start out East.