The Clippers host the Thunder and are still waiting to christen their new home with a win

The Los Angeles Clippers' shiny new home at the Intuit Dome features everything from a double-sided 4K scoreboard to high-tech restrooms. All that's missing is a win for the home team.

The Clippers are 0-3 at home heading into Saturday's matchup against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder in Inglewood, California.

Oklahoma City enters the competition with a perfect 5-0 record for the first time since 2011-12, when the Kevin Durant-led team lost in the NBA Finals.

The Thunder remained undefeated after picking up a 137-114 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night.

Oklahoma City has a brief turnaround before facing the Clippers, who led by as many as 21 points in the third quarter before losing 125-119 to the Phoenix Suns on Thursday.

James Harden led Los Angeles with 25 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists to his 78th career triple-double. The Clippers fell to 2-3 after Phoenix shot 60.5 percent from the field in the second half, including 52.2 percent from 3-point range.

“I mean, we just have to learn from it,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “We have to continue to get better. We need to finish games better and just something to continue learning from. All five of our games were close to the point. We were lucky to win two of them, but in any of those games we could be 0-5. We could be 5-0.

“So we just stay the course and understand that our margin for error is very small. So we can't turn the basketball over. We can’t have defensive breakdowns, we can’t allow offensive rebounds, and then we did. I have to make good shots and be good offensively.”

Norman Powell is averaging a team average of 25.4 points for Los Angeles, which has lost its last two games by a total of seven points. The Clippers' three losses this season total 10 points.

“I think there will be a lot of close games and we just have to find ways to execute and win,” Harden said. “The last two have been tough, but we’ll get there sooner than later.”

Harden spent the first three seasons of his career with Oklahoma City, which had another impressive performance on Friday. The Thunder dominated Portland in the second half, outscoring the Blazers by a 69-46 margin.

“It wasn’t just the attitude,” Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault said. “We had a lot of intent after halftime. We made the decision that our defense really needed to be strengthened and the fact that we were able to correct that quickly was very encouraging.”

With centers Jaylin Williams (right hamstring strain) and Isaiah Hartenstein (left hand fracture) both out, Daigneault has brought 6-foot-1 Ousmane Dieng into the rotation.

The third-year forward had 11 points, three rebounds, two assists and a block in 19 minutes on Friday.

“He always had great feel, but the physicality he brings to the game is just a big jump,” Daigneault said. “He worked really hard for this in his development. He had a great, great summer.”

The Thunder were able to rest their starters for much of the fourth quarter on Friday, with an eye on the second half of back-to-back games. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 30 points on 12 of 18 shooting in 28 minutes in Friday's win.

–Field level media