Yoon will be removed from office if at least six of the eight-member constitutional court bench votes to uphold the impeachment.

Norman Powell led the Clippers with 27 points and Terance Mann had 12 points off the bench.

The 27-year-old has been on the bench once in the intervening period, when he was an unused substitute in the 3-0 home defeat by Newcastle on 30 December.

Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early in the fourth, Leonard sat on the bench.

When Verse sacked Hurts in the second quarter, he lifted his arms, skipped off the field and jawed with fans behind the Rams bench.