LA Clippers at Phoenix Suns
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
9:00 PM ET, Mortgage Matchup Center
The Suns are 3.5-point favorites with a total of 225.5 at most books. My play is the Clippers +3.5.
Victor Wembanyama spent Monday night turning the Suns’ home floor into his personal highlight reel, dropping 40 points, 11 rebounds and nine blocks in just 25 minutes of a 122-96 beatdown. Less than 24 hours later, Phoenix has to wake up, shake it off and lay points. I’ll take the other side of that, thanks.
The schedule is doing the handicapping for me. This is the second night of a back-to-back for Phoenix, and the legs that chased the Spurs around Monday don’t get a recovery day. The Clippers last played Sunday, when they snapped a seven-game losing streak by hanging 139 on New Orleans. Darius Garland ran the show with 24 points and 10 assists, Brook Lopez chipped in 20, and for one night this looked like a team that remembered how to have fun. The market has already started leaning this way, with the Suns opening at -4.5 and slipping to -3.5.
Phoenix’s defense is the bigger problem. Both of these teams are bad, so let’s not pretend otherwise. But even before the Spurs game, Basketball Reference had the Suns giving up 120.2 points per 100 possessions, one of the four worst marks in the league, with a net rating of -6.4. The Clippers sit at -4.0, a little less broken, and they get to face a defense that is now missing Mark Williams (shoulder) and Jordan Goodwin (calf). Garland, averaging 21.2 points and seven assists, should find plenty of daylight.
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The Suns are still a one-man band. Devin Booker scored 32 on Monday and nobody else showed up. Dillon Brooks went 3-of-14 with zero assists. Jalen Green is shooting under 40% and has 22 turnovers against 33 assists, and Arizona Sports’ Kellan Olson wrote that he is still trying his hardest to fit the role the Suns want from him. When Booker sits, this offense stalls into midrange jumpers, and that’s a recipe for a close game you don’t want to be laying points in.
Olson also framed the next two home games, against the “lowly Los Angeles Clippers” and the Hornets, as the real barometer for where Phoenix stands. That’s a lot of pressure on a tired team that just got embarrassed.
Why I could be wrong. The Clippers are banged up, too. Bradley Beal, Brandon Ingram and Yanic Konan Niederhauser are all out, and Cam Christie is questionable with an ankle sprain. They are also 0-4 on the road and turn it over 19.1 times a game, which is the kind of sloppiness that hands Booker easy transition buckets. If Booker goes nuclear again and the Suns’ supporting cast actually shows up, a 3.5-point spread disappears quickly. Phoenix hadn’t filed its official injury report at press time, so check the late news.
Projected score: Clippers 113, Suns 111
The Pick: Clippers +3.5
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