{"id":108228,"date":"2022-10-26T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-knee-sits-out-clippers-loss-to-thunder\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T03:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T03:02:21","slug":"kawhi-leonard-knee-sits-out-clippers-loss-to-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-knee-sits-out-clippers-loss-to-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard (knee) sits out Clippers&#8217; loss to Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; Kawhi Leonard experienced stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee and missed the LA Clippers&#8217; 108-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will meet again, Thursday in Oklahoma City, and Leonard will sit that one out, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Before Tuesday&#8217;s Clippers coach Tye said Leonard has not a setback with his right ACL and that the team remaining extremely cautious with its franchise star.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard is scheduled to fly back to Los Angeles on Wednesday to receive treatment on his knee.  The Clippers will see how Leonard is feeling before determining his status for Sunday&#8217;s game against New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After shootaround, [he] experienced some stiffness in his knee,&#8221; Lue said before the Clippers played the Thunder. &#8220;And so we want to be cautious, make sure we&#8217;re doing the right thing by him, even though he wanted to play.  We just thought it wasn&#8217;t smart.  He can be mad at us if he wants to but just not smart right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leonard was missed.  Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 33 points and Tre Mann had 25 as the Thunder rolled to their first victory of the year.  The short-handed Clippers were also without Paul George (non-COVID-19 illness) and Marcus Morris Sr.  (personal reasons).<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, who tore his right ACL in Game 4 of the second round against Utah on June 14, 2021, played in two of the Clippers&#8217; first three games entering Tuesday, logging 21 minutes each game.  He came off the bench and played in three stints to be able to finish each game.  When the Clippers played a back-to-back last weekend, Leonard sat out the first game in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Clippers&#8217; two-time NBA Finals MVP said it would be a process before he is back to form and that he likely would not be back in the starting lineup until his minutes reached around 34-35 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Leonard had felt good until experiencing stiffness in his knee after Tuesday morning&#8217;s shootaround.  Lue said Leonard isn&#8217;t scheduled to undergo any medical tests or examination in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sending him back to LA because he has better resources for his rehab there,&#8221; Lue said.  &#8220;And see what happens after that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean that&#8217;s part of the process when you have ACL surgery,&#8221; Lue added of the stiffness.  &#8220;It&#8217;s known to happen to get a little stiffness, so we just got to be smart about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; Kawhi Leonard experienced stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee and missed the LA Clippers&#8217; 108-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. The two teams will meet again, Thursday in Oklahoma City, and Leonard will sit that one out, as well. Before Tuesday&#8217;s Clippers coach Tye said Leonard has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-knee-sits-out-clippers-loss-to-thunder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kawhi Leonard (knee) sits out Clippers&#8217; loss to Thunder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[3973,6285,68,46,1464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108212,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/clippers-will-be-without-kawhi-leonard-knee-for-two-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":0},"title":"Clippers will be without Kawhi Leonard (knee) for two games","date":"October 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kawhi Leonard experienced stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee and will miss the LA Clippers' two games against Oklahoma City this week.Leonard was ruled out for Tuesday night's game against the Thunder and will miss Thursday's second game in Oklahoma City. Clippers coach Ty Lue said\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":108579,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-out-at-least-2-games-with-stiffness-in-surgically-repaired-knee\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":1},"title":"Kawhi Leonard out at least 2 games with stiffness in surgically repaired knee","date":"October 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Los Angeles Clippers have been trying to bring back Kawhi Leonard as slowly as possible, but even that process can see some delays.Leonard was ruled out for Tuesday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, as well as a game against the same team on Thursday, after feeling stiffness in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114451,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/clippers-star-kawhi-leonard-to-miss-at-least-2-more-games-managing-knee-injury\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":2},"title":"Clippers star Kawhi Leonard to miss at least 2 more games managing knee injury","date":"November 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Kawhi Leonard is still out of commission.The Los Angeles Clippers star will not be with the team when they travel to Houston and San Antonio this week for a two-game road trip, coach Ty Lue confirmed on Monday.Leonard, who missed all of last season with an ACL injury, missed the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110462,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/clippers-vs-thunder-nba-game-recap-october-27-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":3},"title":"Clippers vs.  Thunder &#8211; NBA Game Recap &#8211; October 27, 2022","date":"October 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"OKLAHOMA CITY -- \u2014 The Thunder have done it again. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 24 points and Oklahoma City earned its second straight win over the Clippers, beating Los Angeles 118-110 on Thursday night. Lu Dort scored 21 points and Aleksej Pokusevski added 15 for the Thunder, who beat the Clippers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":103356,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-off-bench-for-la-clippers-opener-vs-lakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":4},"title":"Kawhi Leonard off bench for LA Clippers&#8217; opener vs.  Lakers","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"LOS ANGELES -- Kawhi Leonard's return started with him coming off the bench for the LA Clippers in their opener Thursday night against the host Los Angeles Lakers.Clippers coach Ty Lue said the decision to bring Leonard off the bench while on a minutes restriction was a collaborative decision between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":103471,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kawhi-leonard-off-bench-in-la-clippers-win-over-lakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":108228,"position":5},"title":"Kawhi Leonard off bench in LA Clippers&#8217; win over Lakers","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"LOS ANGELES -- Kawhi Leonard's return started with him coming off the bench for the LA Clippers in their opener against the host Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night.Leonard had 14 points in 21 minutes in the 103-97 win.Clippers coach Ty Lue said the decision to bring Leonard off the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/1025\/r1081326_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}