{"id":221296,"date":"2021-06-22T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=221296"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:17:17","slug":"knee-sprain-to-keep-kawhi-leonard-sidelined-for-game-2-of-suns-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/knee-sprain-to-keep-kawhi-leonard-sidelined-for-game-2-of-suns-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee sprain to keep Kawhi Leonard sidelined for Game 2 of Suns-Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clippers\u2019 bid for the franchise\u2019s first trip to the Finals will continue without Kawhi Leonard for at least one more game. Leonard was listed as \u201cout\u201d for Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the Phoenix Suns due to a right knee sprain, per Monday evening\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2021-06-21_08PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA injury report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An All-NBA First Team selection this season, Leonard was averaging 30.4 points, 7.7 rebounds, and 2.1 steals while shooting 57.3% overall and 39.3% from 3-point range through 11 playoff games. He has not played since spraining his knee in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>All-Star teammate Paul George has raised his game in Leonard\u2019s absence, but scored just one point and shot 0-for-5 in the fourth quarter of LA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lac-vs-phx-0042000311\/box-score#box-score\">120-114<\/a>\u00a0Game 1 defeat at Phoenix after scoring 33 through the first three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is Tuesday at Phoenix Suns Arena (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lac-vs-phx-0042000312\/game-charts#game-charts\">9 ET, ESPN<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard will miss his fourth straight playoff game since suffering a knee injury in the Western Conference semifinals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-221296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221296"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=221296"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=221296"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=221296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}