INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- After 253 days between games, Kawhi Leonard returned to action Saturday -- and that, he said afterward, was the easy part.
"[There] was nothing hard about playing tonight," the LA Clippers star said after making his long-awaited season debut in his team's 131-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks at the Intuit Dome.
"We did the right steps to get me to this point, and playing basketball was the easy part of it. This is what I love to do. The hard part is not playing and having to rehab and not competing with my teammates.