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Durant delivers for Thunder
Oklahoma City wins on star's last-minute shot.

Kings center Spencer Hawes blocks a shot by Thunder center Nenad Krstic during Tuesday's game in Sacramento, Calif. Rich Pedroncelli/AP

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press
Published: 11/13/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 11/13/2009 6:17 AM

LOS ANGELES — Kevin Durant's deft scoring touch, including the winning jumper with 38 seconds to go, and Oklahoma City's usual dose of defense proved too much.

Durant stepped back and hit a jumper from the left corner for two of his 30 points, giving the Thunder an 83-79 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night.

"It feels good to know that my team has the confidence in me to take those," he said. "The last game and a couple of games before that I didn't hit them, but tonight they fell for me. Give the Clippers credit. They fought hard all night and put us in tough positions, but we fought back and won."

Jeff Green added 13 points, and Nenad Krstic had 10 to help the Thunder end a two-game road losing skid. Durant also had 10 rebounds.

Chris Kaman, the league's Western Conference player of the week last week, led the Clippers with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Baron Davis added 17 points and nine assists, and Al Thornton scored 15 points in the Clippers' second straight loss.

"We got to move on," Kaman said. "At this point, we're doing better than we were last year. We are going to keep on getting better."

Los Angeles coach Mike Dunleavy said Kaman played with a virus that is contagious, and he was advised to keep him away from the rest of the team. He said Kaman wouldn't practice Thursday.

Thornton was fouled on a 3-point attempt with 1:28 remaining and made all three free throws to tie it at 79. Rasual Butler missed a 3 before Durant got the ball in the corner opposite the Clippers' bench for the winning basket.

"We should have won this game," Davis said. "We started off pushing and attacking and sharing, and as the game progressed, we just got out of sync. Missing a bunch of easy layups, it's tough to win like that."

Late Wednesday

THUNDER 83, CLIPPERS 79

Oklahoma City 22 21 23 17 — 83
L.A. Clippers 22 26 21 10 — 79

OKLAHOMA CITY: Green 5-13 1-2 13, Durant 12-20 5-8 30, Krstic 5-12 0-0 10, Westbrook 1-11 0-0 2, Sefolosha 1-3 0-0 2, Ollie 4-7 3-3 11, Collison 2-3 0-0 4, Harden 3-8 1-2 7, Thomas 0-2 0-0 0, Ibaka 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 35-83 10-15 83.

L.A. CLIPPERS: Thornton 4-10 6-8 15, Camby 3-4 2-2 8, Kaman 9-26 2-3 20, B.Davis 6-18 2-2 17, Butler 2-10 2-3 8, R.Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 2-5 2-2 6, Telfair 2-5 0-0 5, Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Jordan 0-0 0-2 0, Novak 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-78 16-22 79.

3-point goals: Oklahoma City 3-13 (Green 2-6, Durant 1-3, Ollie 0-1, Harden 0-3), L.A. Clippers 7-20 (B.Davis 3-8, Butler 2-8, Thornton 1-1, Telfair 1-3).

Fouled out: Ibaka.

Rebounds: Oklahoma City 58 (Durant 10), L.A. Clippers 51 (Kaman 11).

Assists: Oklahoma City 20 (Harden 8), L.A. Clippers 19 (B.Davis 9).

Total fouls: Oklahoma City 23, L.A. Clippers 17.

Technicals: Oklahoma City defensive three second.

A: 14,248 (19,060).

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press

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