Kawhi Leonard scored 31 points and the Los Angeles Clippers overwhelmed the Brooklyn Nets 132-100 on Friday night for their second straight victory and 10th in 12 games as they fight to hold on to sixth place in the Western Conference.

Ben Simmons return to Brooklyn seems completely irrelevant with all that’s on the line in the final nine games of the season. The Nets are 3-15 since the All-Star break and they’ve lost 5 straight. And they’re in the ultimate tank fight with Philadelphia for the fifth-worst record,

The Brooklyn Nets are no doubt in a full rebuild, especially after the team traded away Dennis Schroder and Dorian Finney-Smith earlier in the season to add mor