Kawhi Leonard sat out Game 1 of the Clippers' Western Conference first-round series against the Mavericks and his status for Tuesday's Game 2 remains up in the air.
ABC7 Eyewitness NewsThe Clippers were without Kawhi Leonard for Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday against the Dallas Mavericks, a 109-97 win at Crypto.com Arena.
Leonard missed his ninth straight game with inflammation in his surgically repaired right knee. His status for Tuesday's Game 2 remains uncertain, coach Ty Lue said before the game.Leonard has done more shooting with movement in recent practices, according to Lue. There is a day off between Game 1 and Game 2. But after Game 2, both teams don't play again until Friday's Game 3 in Dallas.
Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank said Leonard's surgically repaired right ACL and right meniscus are solid and structurally in place. But Frank characterized the inflammation as "stubborn" and "unpredictable."Leonard played in Games 1 and 2 before missing the final three games of last year's first-round playoff series against the Phoenix Suns because of a torn meniscus.
Paul George said it has been frustrating having to deal with injuries in yet another postseason for himself and Leonard. George did not play against Phoenix in the first round last year because of injury."I think from the injury standpoint, we've just been unlucky," George said. "But more so focused on positive and do think at some point he'll be with us."
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