Jazz 55, Clippers 52 at half. Rudy Gobert has 10 points, 6 rebounds and 1 block in 12 minutes in his return from a knee injury. Gordon Hayward, who is reportedly dealing with food poisoning, has been limited to 3 points in 9 minutes. Clippers sixth man Jamal Crawford snapped out of a series-long slump with a game-high 15 points.
During Chris Paul's first season with the Clippers, the team's longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler at a shootaround in Utah mentioned that the Clippers hadn't won in Salt Lake City forever. Paul told Lawler that was going to change and to to tell him of similar droughts in other road arenas during his first season in Los Angeles.