LOS ANGELES — Reggie Jackson came tantalizingly close to a 40-point triple-double – tantalizingly, anyway, for injured teammates Norman Powell and Jason Preston.

Jackson was most pleased by the scoreboard: Clippers 132, Lakers 111, but Powell and Preston were among the spectators who filled Crytpo.com Arena who were soaking up Jackson’s 36-point, eight-rebound, nine-assist display on Thursday night.

“Norman and Preston (said), ‘You’re four points, two rebounds and an assist from a 40-point triple-double!’” said Jackson, who was the one soaked postgame, the victim of a celebratory sneak attack orchestrated by his coach and carried out by his water-bottle wielding teammates.

“I remember telling them, ‘That’s cool, but I’ve had a triple-double in my career (two, actually). … When they come, they come, but the biggest thing was just our energy. I just wanted to continue to play the right way, stay aggressive and I’m all about dubs.”

The Clippers (34-31) have strung together four wins in a row, and six in their past seven outings.

That hot streak – without injured All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George as well as recently acquired standout Powell – has the 34-31 Clippers securely in eighth place in the Western Conference standings, just one game out of seventh and 3½ out of sixth place with 17 games to play.

And in the fourth and final meeting this regular season against the Lakers, it was the gregarious 31-year-old guard who played the catalyst, reviving his Mr. June playoff persona for a gaudy stat line that inspired “Reg-gie” chants from the crowd and made him just the sixth player in Clipper history to finish a game with at least 36 points, nine assists and eight rebounds – and the first since Chris Paul in 2016.

Jackson, about that, probably: Meh.

“It doesn’t matter about stats, Jimmy Garoppolo just wins,” Jackson said, producing an analogy inspired by his brother’s favorite football team. “That’s the biggest thing I want to do. It doesn’t matter about stats, I just want to win. And at the end of the day, that’s it.

“I want my legacy to be I won, I want to win titles, that’s something we’re trying to push towards. But we get a win I go home and I feel good. I can fix if I play a bad game. But doesn’t matter how well I play, if we lose, I won’t be able to sleep. So, it’s all about a win for me.”

String enough of them together and who knows what the Clippers could be capable of.

“You know me, I don’t ever put no ceiling on anything,” said Jackson, who shot 14 for 30 from the field and 4 for 8 from 3-point range against the Lakers. “It’s like the (NCAA) tournament. You just got to get in. You get in and anything can happen. You understand statistics, I understand certain teams might not want certain seeds before but I mean shoot, why not? Why not defy the odds? It took eventually one team in the NBA to come back from a 1-3 deficit and then it’s been done more and more. Why not be one of the first?

“That’s our team mentality is we’re going to continue to push, we’re going to continue to go each and every game and we’ll see where the chips fall.”

In that case, Jackson should prepare for the possibility of more celebratory showers in the forecast.

“I was coming down the hall and (Coach Tyronn Lue) was talking about an errant pass I had earlier with Isaiah,” said Jackson, who lured Lue into a postgame dousing after the Clippers’ 35-point comeback win against the Washington Wizards earlier this season.

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“It was actually a great talk, so I’m thinking we’re chatting about it, the play’s going on, how me and Isaiah can be better … he has me looking back at him as I’m walking down the hall and as soon as I turn my eye I can see Paul and them with the water and it was too late.

“He’s good. He played it off well, whispering, I’m getting closer and closer so I can’t hear. He got me. He got me good. Coach is always up to some antics, man.”

Jackson was on the money with that assessment too, Lue confirmed.

“All the guys wanted to splash him with the water, so I was talking to him down the hallway,” Lue said. “He was really locked in, and I just pushed him in the middle of the circle, and they all poured water on him.

“He deserved it.”