The Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard missed Thursday night’s Game 3 loss to the Suns because of a right knee sprain.
The LA Clippers ruled Kawhi Leonard out several hours before Thursday’s 129-124 Game 3 loss to the Phoenix Suns because of a sprained right knee.
Leonard aggravated his right knee at the end of the Clippers’ Game 1 victory and played through it in the Suns’ Game 2 win according to Lawrence Frank, Clippers president of basketball operations.
Leonard’s injury is not related to the torn right ACL injury that kept him out of all of last season, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Leonard will be monitored and evaluated daily and is considered day-to-day with the Clippers having a quick turnaround before Saturday’s 12:30 p.m. PT tip for Game 4.
« Symptoms got worse after Game 2, » Frank said before Game 3. « Obviously, if we weren’t comfortable with [Leonard] playing [in Game 2], we wouldn’t have. But after the game, things didn’t get better. They got worse. So we will rule him out and kind of take it day by day. »
Clippers head coach Ty Lue said he learned of Leonard’s knee injury on Wednesday night and was informed before the team’s Thursday morning shootaround that he would not have Leonard available.
