Clippers try to put it all together against lowly Rockets

The Los Angeles Clippers appeared to be on the verge of putting their fractured pieces together.

After claiming both games of a back-to-back in Detroit and Toronto just after Christmas, the Clippers - who host the struggling Houston Rockets on Sunday -- climbed to six games over .500 by capping astretch of seven wins in nine games. They had labored as Paul George and Kawhi Leonard worked their way back from injuries in p