The LA Clippers defeat the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, 118-94, completing a sweep of the NBA Champions. Led by Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, the Clippers saw seven players reach double-figure scoring, including the new bench tandem of Rajon Rondo and DeMarcus Cousins.

The Clippers got out to an early double-digit lead, and while the Lakers made attempts to trim it, the outcome was never truly in doubt.

“Just proud of how we are going to get there,” head coach Tyronn Lue said after the win. “We stuck together all season. Through tough times, no one is pointing the finger or blaming someone else. That is the biggest thing, just staying together, through tough losses, if it was a 50-point loss to Dallas or a big win against Phoenix, we just stuck together, stayed the course. We just got to find our rhythm, that is the biggest thing right now, find our rhythm going forward, trying to get it back to what we had early in the season. And it is going to take a little time. As you saw tonight. First half I thought we did some good things but second half, I didn’t like the way we finished the game.”

One of Lue's biggest issues from the night were the turnovers. The Clippers finished with a season-high 22 turnovers, with both Leonard and George committing five themselves.

The outcome was never close thanks in large part to the very early departure of Anthony Davis and the hot shooting first half for the Clippers.

Davis was held to just 2-of-9 shooting from the field in an otherwise forgetful night.

“[We were]. Just putting bodies in front of him. He's a great basketball player, one of a kind, so we gotta make sure we have bodies in front of him, try to make things hard, that's pretty much it.”

Anthony Davis would leave the game late in the first quarter with what the Lakers called back spasms.

Meanwhile, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard continued to help the team's chemistry develop with so little time left until the postseason.

“It’s a good chemistry group,” George added. “We want to see the next person do well. Every person on the bench or on the court has the full support of one another. It’s just great when we’re having fun. Everybody is in great spirits here. And it’s contagious, you know what I mean. It’s contagious.”

The win gave the Clippers their 45th win of the season and locked them into another near-tie with Denver for the third seed in the West. While Denver has the tiebreaker, the Clippers have the easier remaining schedule between the two. Just don't tell Kawhi Leonard who his team is playing beyond the night.

“Right now, just got to take whatever’s in front of u,” Leonard responded when asked about the remaining schedule. “You got to be a good team to win a championship and obviously the first seed gives you a better opportunity, but I'm not wishing or hoping we get to a certain spot. Just focused on ourselves right now and making sure we come out of the regular season the best team.”

The Clippers will host the New York Knicks on Sunday afternoon in what will be the team's final home game of the regular season. With only five games remaining, every game matters for the Clippers, especially