Kawhi Leonard has yet to be cleared by the team’s medical staff to return to playing, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said before his team’s 117-106 win against Memphis on Friday, despite the team listing Leonard as questionable to play for the past four consecutive games, all of which he missed because of his left hip contusion.
When Leonard was hit by the knee of Dallas’ Grant Williams late in a win on Dec. 20, it aggravated a hip injury Leonard first sustained Dec. 8 at Utah, Lue said, when Leonard tumbled after being fouled.
“He aggravated it then and played through it, and then the Dallas game just kind of took it over the top,” Lue said.