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The Clippers use a huge third quarter to blow out the Warriors as the NBA season resumes.

The break did the Clippers good, as Tyronn Lue thought it might when he suggested that the six days between games might’ve come “at kind of a perfect time.”

Refreshed, refocused, the Clippers opened up the second half of the season by rolling over Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors, 130-104, on Thursday night at Staples Center.

There were no echoes of the teams’ last meeting in January, when the Clippers (25-14) let the Warriors up off the mat as they when they’d rallied from a 21-point second-half deficit. This time, the leadfooted Clippers surged to an easy victory that put an end to the three-game slide they’d taken into the AllStar break.

The Clippers scored more points in third quarter — 45 — than Golden State (19-19) could muster in the first half, when they scored just 43 points, the fewest by a Clippers opponent before halftime this season.

Before Lue emptied his bench in the second half, their All-Stars Kawhi Leonard (28 points and nine rebounds) and Paul George (17 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals) did their requisite damage in 31 and 27 minutes, respectively.

Lou Williams chipped in with 14 points in 14 minutes off the bench.

And center Serge Ibaka set the tone with nine of the Clippers’ first 14 points, a precursor for his fifth double-double as a Clipper: He finished with 16 points and 14 rebounds in 23 minutes.

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