OAKLAND, Calif. -- Kawhi Leonard walked slowly and deliberately through the quiet loser’s locker room. No limp, no brace, no tape covering the sprained left ankle that buckled with 7 minutes, 53 seconds left in the third quarter Sunday of the San Antonio Spurs’ 113-111 loss in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals to the Golden State Warriors.
In fact, the All-Star forward never deviated from his normal pigeon-toed gait on the way to the athletic training room.
The only strangeness witnessed here is the fact that the training staff sat down Leonard at a table and taped up the injured ankle, after the game, before the forward pulled on a Spurs sweatsuit and strolled out to the team bus.