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Clippers rule out Leonard for rest of preseason



Since the beginning of the 2017 season, Anthony Edwards has played more regular season games (302) than Kawhi Leonard (298). This is despite Ant not entering the league until 2020.

by phatteschwags

48 Comments

  1. junkit33

    What is Kawhi’s specific injury at moment? Just the usual knee problems?

  2. downinCarolina

    We make jokes but degenerative conditions suck. I have degenerative discs in my back and its a part time job to keep the pain at bay and a friend has a degenerative eye condition that will slowly leave her blind in her early 30s. And to quote Baz Luhrmann, “take care of your knees, youll miss them when theyre gone”. Hopefully Leonard can get a transplant or something so he can enjoy his life even if its not as a pro athlete.

  3. referee-superfan

    I broke this story like 5 years ago

  4. bucks3412

    Honestly if a was a clippers fan I would be over it. Just trade him and start looking for someone else to build around

  5. Tabais123

    Save time and just announce the 6 games he will play this year.

  6. HolyGhostSpirit33

    Not wearing my glasses so have myself a heart attack

  7. dearth_karmic

    Who read that quickly and thought it said “Clippers rule out Leonard for rest of season” ?

  8. Sad thing is legions of fans won’t even begin accepting a “healthy Kawhi” will never exist. This legend only exist because so many want it to be true and actively believe he will magically get better

  9. _Aracano

    Feels like Clippers fans are stuck in an infinite timeloop

    Yikes

  10. footdragon

    Just retire already….give another player a chance in the league.

    He was once great, now his body is so broken that no team can rely on him being healthy enough to even play a few games a season.

  11. creditspread

    As bad as Lakers management is, we still dodged a bullet there.

  12. Carolake1

    This guy thought he was healthy enough to play on team USA

  13. Several_Chapter969

    I really think his knees are in such bad shape that if Kawhi just came to the clippers and said “I’m too injured to play” for the next three years, you wouldn’t find a doctor in the world who would contest that. And its been that way for awhile. So it really just becomes a question of how badly he wants to play vs. sit around in street clothes and collect $50 mil for the next three years (for clarity, I don’t think he’ll do that, but he could).

  14. overweighttardigrade

    Broooo the description way too funny, … Even though he didn’t enter the league until 2020

  15. Bro just fucken retire.

    Holy shit this dude is robbing Balmer 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  16. Kawhi Leonard leads the league in steals.

    100s of millions from Balmer.

  17. jomanhan9

    Honestly just retire bro, he’s gonna have knee pain for the rest of his life

  18. Actually-Yo-Momma

    Remove “pre” from the title and it’s probably still accurate 

  19. funzotothemax

    I honestly read this as “season” and thought that sounded about right

  20. KillerZaWarudo

    He gonna take months of the start of the season, take some time building back up and looking like his old self again, 2 weeks before the playoffs his knee will act up and clipper play this will he won’t he available for the playoffs and he ended up playing 1 or 0 playoffs game

  21. CoCoMiX_666

    As a life-long Clipper fan, this pretty tracks.

  22. medievalmachine

    Guess he’ll never be preseason MVP now.

  23. onamonapizza

    Don’t call it a comeback!

    No, like seriously…don’t.

  24. Basic-Heron-3206

    I would be surprised if he played any regular season game in october

    Sucks that we miss out on seeing such a generational plauer, and sucks even more that the one year his body held it together had to be against the sixers lol

  25. I read this as “season,” nodded my head and said “Yeah, that tracks.”

  26. I_Set_3_Alarms

    I thought it said out for the rest of the season and couldn’t decide if I was the right amount of surprised or not

  27. fingerbang247

    And they signed him to another extension?! Balmer should stick to tech.

  28. Glowwerms

    This guy’s career is kind of sad which is crazy to say considering he’s won a couple of titles. If he remained healthy I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say he’d be up there with LeBron and KD in consideration for best of his generation and might have 4-5 titles already

  29. athomic74

    Kawhi Leonard the sleeper agent sent to destroy the Clippers 😂😂

  30. Better_Albatross_946

    This iteration of the Clippers is over along with Kawhis time as a top tier player

  31. SirFunktastic

    Dude should just retire after his contract is up. IDK what team is going to give him another bag when he’s nowhere near reliable health wise.

  32. TheMambaMaleGrindset

    So genuine question: do the Clips have any way to void his contract?

  33. angel2timez

    Dude she have just went to the lakers, could have coasted till the playoffs each year

  34. mwerichards

    Should have stayed home. We somehow had the perfect formula and were capable of running it back one more year. Back 2 back NBA champs is a wild statement but was very possible for my Raptors.

  35. ryanastriaaa

    For a second I thought it said the entire season

  36. locomocopoco

    Is it ethically right to sign an extension when health is shit? Hope clippers had something in contract.

    Spurs dodged a bullet for sure. They have Vic now after trading KL and sucking for few years

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