LOS ANGELES — Life keeps giving the Clippers lemons, but it’s fine – Tyronn Lue has this killer lemonade recipe.

And they sampled a sweet sip of upset victory Monday.

With a willful, almost rebellious effort Monday, the Clippers defeated the Golden State Warriors, 119-104 – upending the team with the NBA’s second-best record in typically improbable fashion.

They forged on again without injured All-Stars Kawhi Leonard (ACL) and Paul George (elbow) – and now also recently acquired guard Norman Powell, who was ruled out indefinitely Sunday with a fracture in his left foot.

Without those key figures – and with recently acquisitions Rodney Hood and Semi Ojeleye not yet up to date on their new team’s plays – the 29-30 Clippers said: Take that, fate, winning their second in a row by running the Warriors (42-16) out of Crypto.com Arena in the second half, when they outscored their guests 58-45.

Powell – wearing a walking boot on his left foot and all-black attire like the Clippers’ coaches – was engaged on the bench, on his feet for much of the game enjoying what Lue likes to call “a total team effort.”

They stymied Steph Curry and his teammates after halftime, holding him to seven points on seven shots and them to 38.6% (17 for 44) shooting.

A highly aggressive Terance Mann followed his 21-point effort in Saturday’s victory in Dallas with a career-high-tying (for the regular season) 25 points – including 14 to match his jersey number in the pivotal third quarter. The third-year guard also had seven rebounds and six assists.

Reggie Jackson had 19 points, eight rebounds and nine assists, while Nicolas Batum had a havoc-causing 14 points on 5-for-9 shooting (4 for 7 from 3-point range) to go with eight points and two steals.

Ivica Zubac added 18 points and eight rebounds, and Marcus Morris Sr. made it all five starters in double figures with 11 points.

Amir Coffey and Robert Covington (11 points) came up with timely 3-pointers to maintain fourth-quarter momentum and a pair of Isaiah Hartenstein dunks served to all but slam the door, including finishing an alley-oop from Jackson to push the lead to 111-89 with 4:25 left – sending the Warriors fans throughout the building heading for the exits.

The Clippers led 61-59 at halftime, even though Curry was, at that point, 9 for 11 from the field and 6 for 7 from behind the arc and the Warriors had looked primed to separate themselves when they took a 52-44 lead.

The game’s hosts quickly erased that advantage with a trio of 3-pointers – Batum, Hartenstein, Batum – to trigger a timeout by the Warriors, who, as a team, shot 22 for 42 (52.4%) from the field and 11 for 20 from deep in the first half.

A Curry four-point play pulled the Warriors within 84-75 before the Clippers countered with a 10-3 run to end the quarter, with all the points coming from Mann.

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The Clippers were kept afloat early by Jackson’s 12 points, Zubac’s 11 – and 11 more from Batum, who was all over the court in the first half, going into the break with seven rebounds,

With renowned pugilist Floyd Mayweather sitting courtside egging him on, Curry scored 16 points in the first seven minutes – nine of which came during a 52-second stretch, a revved-and-ready performance reminiscent of his 25-point first-period outburst against the Clippers in their season opener on Oct. 21 (when Curry finished with 45 points).

On Monday, he had 33 – not enough to thwart Lue’s no-quit Clippers, who will head to Phoenix on Tuesday to face the Suns – who, at 46-10, have the NBA’s best record.

Curry finished 11 for 18 from the field and 8 for 13 from 3-point range for the night.

More to come on this story.