Kawhi Leonard said he’s unaffected by the league’s new rules regarding load management, according to Baxter Holmes of ESPN.
Leonard had his games limited during his lone season with Toronto and the Clippers have also employed the strategy with him and other players. He hasn’t played more than 60 regular-season games since the 2017/18 season.
“I’m not a guy that’s sitting down because I’m doing load management — well, when I was with the Raptors, it was different; like, I was coming [off] an injury,” he said. “And you have to know the details from the doctor. But if the league is seeing or trying to mock what I did with the Raptors, they should stop because I was injured during that whole year. But other than that, if I’m able to play, I’ll play basketball. I work out every day in the summertime to play the game. So, no league policy is helping me to play more games.”
We have more on the Clippers:
- Newcomer Joshua Primo said he’ll let his actions speak for him as he tries to clean up his image, Andrew Greif of the Los Angeles Times tweets. Primo will serve a four-game league suspension for indecent exposure. Primo signed a two-way contract with the Clippers late last month. “Talking’s cheap, guys,” he said. “Obviously it’s going to be my actions each and every day that proves my character.”
- Apparently, the possibility of starting Leonard at power forward and inserting Terance Mann in the backcourt alongside Russell Westbrook is in play. Coach Tyronn Lue acknowledged he’s been thinking about, Greif tweets. “You’re a smart man,” Lue responded when asked about it during media day.
- The Clippers were uninterested all summer in putting Mann in potential trade packages for Philadelphia’s James Harden, according to Greif.
- Lue hinted he plans to give Robert Covington more playing time this season, Greif added in another tweet. He said Covington deserved to play “a little bit more last year, and that’s my fault.” The veteran forward appeared in only 48 games off the bench last season, averaging 16.2 minutes per night, his fewest since his rookie season.
What Kawhi is saying is true. If you go back and watch him in the playoffs that year, you can see him hobbling in the last two rounds. He wasn’t sitting just to sit
Sounds good for the clippers, starting Mann is a no-brainer and if Rocos hitting 3s he can still make an impact; whatever results in less morris minutes the better
And yes …. Rob Covington … Another one of my guys!
Maybe Rob can give a little bit off the bench. He is pretty much a wrap now though. Once he kicked out the baby with the woman of his dreams Instagram Model, Rob pretty much closed out everything he ever hoped to achieve in life.
Great story. Despite being from the same hometown, Maywood, Illinois, as Doc Rivers, Michael Finley, Shannon Brown, Sterling Brown, Dee Brown and Jevon Carter, and ballin in Chicago when it was producing the best basketball talent on the planet …. He went literally unrecruited by Division I schools.
He played on the AAU circuit with Antoine Walker’s team. Most teams rented vans to transport players to events. Antoine would rent matching Mercedes SUV’s for the guys to ride in.
Ended up sending him to my boy Dana Ford, who was head coach at Tennessee State at the time. Rob balled out so heavy that he got Dana his current job, head coach at Missouri State. Dana ultimately hired another of my former employees as his agent.
In other words “What had happened was…”
Clippers wanted that pervert
Primo saying he’ll let his actions speak for him after he has whipped his d out for people to look at without consent was the dumbest possible phrase he could’ve said.