Kawhi

There had been flashes. On a cold Minnesota night in December 2019, the All-NBA duo of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George became the first Clippers to score at least 40 points in the same game. Months later in their first postseason together,…

To reach the conference finals this season for the first time in their history, the Clippers relied heavily on familiar faces, with holdovers from the 2020 roster playing more than 75% of postseason minutes.Yet one of coach Tyronn Lue’s…

The Clippers’ season ended Wednesday night in a 130-103 loss to the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.Here are some takeaways from exit interviews on Thursday (Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, among others, did not…

Los Angeles Times reporters Andrew Greif, Broderick Turner and Dan Woike discuss Kawhi Leonard’s injury situation in a roundtable format.DW: We just had a great talk during our weekly NBA meeting on Zoom about the Clippers and Kawhi…

With the Clippers trailing Utah by 22 points Friday, the team’s coaches retreated to a room separate from the rest of the locker room inside Staples Center to discuss adjustments to turn around Game 6.Following them inside was a 6-foot-7…

Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard will not play in Game 6 against the Utah Jazz on Friday night at Staples Center because of a strained right knee, coach Tyronn Lue said Thursday evening. Lue said there was no injury update beyond that.Leonard…

Paul George scored 37 points Wednesday night to help the Clippers take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. Game 6 is Friday in Los Angeles. Game 7, if necessary, is back in Salt Lake City on Sunday.Even in the short term,…

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When Kawhi Leonard was asked about his right knee Monday night following Game 4 of the Clippers’ second-round playoff series against Utah, he replied quickly, “I’m good.”Because the answer was hard to hear through the videoconference’s…

The dunk heard across the NBA began Monday with two dribbles and violent intentions.By his first dribble, Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard had ripped the ball from the right side of his body to his left and gained a step on Royce O’Neale,…