Lillard propels Bucks past depleted Clippers

Damian Lillard scored 16 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter of the visiting Milwaukee Bucks' first victory on their California road trip, 124-117 over the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 34 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds to outlast the Clippers, who played without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.

James Harden had 13 points and 11 assists while playing without his two superstar teammates, who both sat out of the team's second home game in less than 24 hours as the Clippers decided to rest Leonard's sore left groin and George's sore left knee.

Norman Powell led the Clippers with 26 points, THUNDER 124, GRIZZLIES 93 >> Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 23 points and six assists in three quarters and host Oklahoma City rolled past Memphis. The Thunder (45-19) entered the day tops in the Western Conference, a half-game ahead of Minnesota, which played later at the Los Angeles Lakers.

Rookie GG Jackson II scored a season-high 30 points for the Grizzlies.

ROCKETS 112, KINGS 104 >> Fred VanVleet scored 22 points, Jalen Green added 19 and visiting Houston Rockets beat Sacramento. The Rockets may have lost leading scorer Alperen Sengun to a right knee injury when he landed awkwardly while challenging a shot by the Kings' Domantas Sabonis late in the game.

Sengun is averaging a career-high 21.2 points per game in his third season. Sabonis led the Kings with 25 points and 15 rebounds.

GOBERT FINED $100K GAMBLING INFERENCE >> The NBA fined Minnesota center Rudy Gobert $100,000 on Sunday, two days after he implied that referee Scott Foster was not calling games fairly and further suggesting that gambling is having a detrimental impact on the outcome of games.

The fine is the maximum that the NBA could give under terms of the collective bargaining agreement that went into place last year.