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Clippers' defense finally shows up in road win over Suns

PHOENIX - It's difficult to make a 7-foot-tall person disappear, especially on a basketball court with 14,764 fans watching, and the Los Angeles Clippers would not have seemed to be the ideal candidates to pull it off.

In the past week, opposing centers such as LaMarcus Aldridge and Joel Embiid had feasted against a Clippers defense more porous than pressuring.

But late in Friday's first half Phoenix center DeAndre Ayton, taken first overall in

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