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Rookie Kawhi Leonard added 16 points, hitting all three of his 3s, and Danny Green added 15 points for the Spurs.
Caron Butler scored 15 points and Nick Young had 13 for the Clippers. Los Angeles cut the deficit to single digits in the fourth quarter before San Antonio ran away with its 11th double-digit victory during this dominating winning streak.
The Clippers didn't even need San Antonio's help getting more bumps and bruises. Mo Williams, already playing with his sore right fingers taped, took a lump on the head when teammate Reggie Evans inadvertently kicked him after Williams fell on his back in the lane.
Parker, meanwhile, finally felt the hard knocks and slow-him-down shoves that Utah repeatedly promised but never delivered in the first round. Sometimes, the All-Star looked in vain to officials when the whistle didn't blow. When that didn't work once in the first quarter, he kept jabbering about a no-call on the last possession while lining up to shoot free throws on the current one.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, pacing and sensing an impending technical foul, silenced his leading scorer.
"Tony!" Popovich snapped from the sideline. "Shoot!"
Parker waved off the NBA Coach of the Year -- he was under control. But his frustrations didn't end there. He was 1 for 9 despite playing 38 minutes, scoring all but two of his points at the foul line.
"He didn't score, but he got 11 assists," Ginobili said. "That's who we are. Sometimes it's not going to be him."
NOTES: The Spurs tied a franchise playoff record with 13 3-pointers. Before this became the deepest Spurs team yet under Popovich, Butler said he came so close to signing with the Spurs after the lockout that he canceled a flight to San Antonio when the Clippers counteroffered. "They made a great pitch," Butler said. ... Leonard finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting, the highest finish for a Spurs player since Ginobili finished fourth in 2003. Said Popovich: "He's done a good enough job to make me trust him to be in the starting lineup. I'm happy for him."
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