The Los Angeles Clippers had no problem with Kawhi Leonard playing for the U.S. in the Paris Olympics this summer and wanted him to remain on the team, general manager Lawrence Frank said Monday, July 15.
Jul 16, 2024 02:24 AM LAS VEGAS — USA Basketball removed Leonard — whose NBA season was disrupted at the end because of a knee problem — from its roster last week after a four-day, four-practice training camp and replaced him with the Boston Celtics’ Derrick White. USA Basketball said that it and the Clippers determined that Leonard not playing this summer was in his best interest.
Leonard missed 12 of the Los Angeles Clippers’ final 14 games this past season with right knee inflammation, though he said last week that he felt fine and the knee was doing well. But USA Basketball — which has Clippers coach Tyronn Lue as an assistant on head coach Steve Kerr’s staff — felt differently.
“I was there the first two practices. He looked very good, was a full participant in everything that they did,” Frank said. “I wasn’t there for the third practice, where ultimately, that was the point where they decided to go in a different direction. I expressed then, I really wished that they would have given Kawhi more time.”
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