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The Lakers finished with 35 wins Blake Martinez Jersey Elite , their most since 2012-13. And coach Luke Walton can live with that.

Jason Hart set career highs with 30 points and seven 3-pointers, and the Lakers defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 115-100 on Wednesday night, closing out a fifth consecutive season without a playoff berth.

”We’re on the right path for where we want to get to,” Walton said. ”Really happy with the progress we made. It was a special, fun year.”

Two-way player Gary Payton II added a career-best 25 points off the bench as the Lakers beat their Staples Center co-tenant for the first time since April 4, 2012, as the visiting team. They went 35-47 under Walton in his second year.

”We’re very confident in what we have to build off of,” Hart said. ”The biggest thing for us is getting the experience and we did that. We all want each other to succeed. We were eliminated from playoff contention and no one went out on their own. Every game until the end of the season, we played hard, competed and played for each other.”

Tobias Harris led the Clippers with 23 points. They ended the season with four straight losses, and finished with a 42-40 record although their streak of consecutive playoff appearances ended at six.

”I don’t like going home, I just don’t,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. ”If we were healthy Cheap Daryl Worley Jersey , we’d be in the playoffs.”

The Lakers led by nine at halftime and stretched it to 22 points in the third, when Hart scored 14 points, hitting three straight 3-pointers.

As a team, the Lakers tied their season high with 17 3-pointers, including three each by Payton, Alex Caruso and Brook Lopez.

TIP-INS

Lakers: G Lonzo Ball ended his rookie season on the bench, having missed the final eight games with a left knee contusion. In all, he missed 30 games due to injury. Ball averaged 10.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 7.2 assists in 34.2 minutes. … The Lakers were 11-19 without Ball in the lineup. … Fellow rookie F Kyle Kuzma missed the last three games with a sprained left ankle. He averaged 16.1 points and shot 70 percent from the free-throw line.

Clippers: G Lou Williams sat out his second straight game with a sprained right ankle. He averaged career highs in points (22.6), assists (5.3) and minutes (32.8). His bench scoring led the NBA in his 13th season. … They won the season series 3-1. … They had won 21 of 23 against the Lakers since 2012-13 by an average of 15 points. … DeAndre Jordan joined the crowd singalong of ”Sweet Caroline” during a timeout late in the game.

BACK TO EARTH

Andre Ingram came down to earth a night after a 19-point performance in his NBA debut for the Lakers against Houston. The 32-year-old guard scored five points on 2-of-9 shooting and had six assists in 33 minutes. The 10-year veteran of the G League said he had hundreds of messages on his phone on Tuesday. Ingram graduated from American University with a physics degree and he calls math ”a true love of mine.” He tutors high school students when he has time during the G League season and in the offseason to ”keep that part of the brain functioning.”

HE SAID IT

”I don’t even know what to do tomorrow.” – Rivers, who will miss the playoffs for just the fourth time in 19 years of coaching.

LEBRON TO LAKERS?

Channing Frye thinks it’s possible the Lakers could land LeBron James in free agency this summer. ”Any superstar would like to play for Luke (Walton). He’s a players’ coach,” Frye said. ”If that’s not enough, this is also the Lakers and you’d get to play in LA at Staples Center.” Frye will be a free agent Quenton Nelson Color Rush Jersey , too, and the veteran forward would like to stay in LA. ”(Expletive), it’s the Lakers,” he said. ”I want to allow them to make the right decisions with bigger-name guys. I’m a pretty good backup, emergency break-the-glass-type guy.”

FAREWELL EMBRACE?

Jordan and Rivers embraced after the game ended, with neither quite sure of their futures in Los Angeles. Jordan has a player option worth $24.1 million for next season, which he could decline and pursue free agency after spending his first 10 years with the Clippers. Rivers will be heading into the final year of his contract. ”I want to be where I’m wanted,” Jordan said. ”I want to have a chance to contend. That’s really what I’m looking at.”

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Veteran receivers Brandon Tate and Michael Floyd joined practice at New Orleans Saints training camp on Wednesday, bolstering a receiver corps thinned by injuries and adding to the mix of players competing in the return game.

New Orleans also has activated veteran tight end Michael Hoomanawanui, who began training camp on the physically unable to perform list.

The 30-year-old Tate played in 13 games for Buffalo last season, when his most significant contributions came in the return game. He returned 28 kickoffs for 548 yards and 20 punts for 193 yards.

"He had a good workout. We're familiar with the player, just with his experience," coach Sean Payton said of Tate Cheap Customized Washington Redskins Jerseys , who also has played for New England and Cincinnati during his nine-year career. "We'll have a chance to take a look at him both in the punt and kick return game, and then also at receiver."

Payton has described competition for return roles as "wide open."

"Our return game is kind of like 'The Bachelor' right now," Payton said recently, referring to the popular reality TV series. "We have about 12 contestants all with roses. We don't know who our returner is going to be. And if she doesn't like any of them, we will bring in more.

"They have to do anything they can to become the returner. ... Limousine, whatever. Paris."

Payton has been emphasizing kickoff coverage and return games this training camp because of NFL rules changes for such plays affecting how teams can line up 鈥?and block鈥?in an effort to reduce injurious, higher-speed collisions.

Payton said the return game is not necessarily causing him more anxiety than usual, but stressed, "We just want to be better in that area."

Meanwhile, Payton said he wants to see how a receiver with Floyd's skill set and 6-foot-3 frame fits New Orleans' offense, which has thrived in the past with big receiving targets such as the 6-4 Marques Colston, who retired after the 2015 season as the club's career leader in receiving.

Floyd is "someone that's big and we think we've got a good vision for what his strengths are," Payton said.

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Floyd was among Arizona's premier receivers earlier in his career, but was released by the club following a 2016 drunken driving arrest. Payton indicated Floyd would not have much room for error off the field.

"Obviously, when we bring players in, they understand the expectations," Payton said. "He's someone that I'm sure understands it."

The decisions to bring in new receivers this week came in part because three who were on the active roster to open camp are injured.

Travin Dural, a second-year pro out of LSU, is going on injured reserve. Payton says injured undrafted rookies Josh Smith and Eldridge Massington have been waived.

"It's a hard position group to be in camp with, with a lot of guys not practicing," Payton said. "That's just how it is."

The Saints also have added veteran offensive guard Don Barclay, who played in three games for Detroit last season and started 24 games with Green Bay over five seasons.

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