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NBA looking ahead: Clippers play at Miami on Friday night

LeBron James and the Miami Heat will be looking for payback when the Clippers travel to South Beach on Friday after Miami lost to L.A. at Staples Center in November.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
By Ben Bolch

CLIPPERS AT MIAMI: Friday at 5 p.m. PST. TV: ESPN.

The Clippers are coming! The Clippers are coming! South Beach is on red alert over the arrival of one of the NBA’s top teams, provided Chris Paul is in the lineup. The Clippers are 29-10 when Paul plays this season as opposed to only 5-5 when he has sat out because of a bruised kneecap. The Clippers split the first two games of a season-long eight-game trip without their star point guard, but hope to have him and injured shooting guard Chauncey Billups back before reaching Miami. The Heat wants to prove it can hang with Lob City after losing to the Clippers, 107-100, in November at Staples Center.

—Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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