The Clippers have another 0-2 hole to climb out of, but this time they’ll have to do it without Kawhi Leonard. The star forward has officially been ruled out of Thursday’s Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, tweets Andrew Greif of The Los Angeles Times.
Leonard hasn’t played since hurting his knee nine days ago in Game 5 of L.A.’s series against the Jazz. The Clippers managed to win the final two games of that series without him, but are staring at a deficit again after dropping back-to-back games in Phoenix.
Coach Tyronn Lue said over the weekend that he’s preparing to play the entire conference finals without Leonard, just to avoid the game-to-game uncertainty of whether he’ll be available.
The Clippers are officially calling Leonard’s knee injury a sprain, but few details have been released about the severity. There was concern last week that he might have damaged his ACL, but no one has confirmed whether that happened.
If it wasn’t an ACL, they would have said so by now.
And if it WAS an ACL, they would have said by now.
Every day is backwards day for Warriors fans.
Well he still has time to get healthy. Rest easy big fella
Rest easy lol he’s still alive
At this rate, I’m not sure he’ll be available in time for game 1 of 2021-22.
My guess: they’re calling it a sprain. Probably is an ACL sprain. He’s not playing again this season.
“Abundance of caution” rules again. It has never been trendier.
Kawhi has to make sure he stays paycheckable. (new word)
Best basketball player that doesn’t play basketball
What a p… great leader, huh?
Gotta love a player who cares about himself more than his team.
Actually seems LAC are doing better without him, just like PHO did better without CP3… interesting, right?
I would love if now PG13 took the LAC to the title without Kawhi, boy would I love that!!!