Kawhi Leonard arrived at his courtside seat inside a Las Vegas gym Monday to watch the Clippers’ Summer League team sporting matching shorts and shirts bearing his initials and jersey number. And they didn’t appear to be the Clippers star’s only new, personalized accessory.
Nearly one month since Leonard underwent surgery to repair what the team said was a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament, a scar a few inches long appeared to run up his right knee.
Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, described Leonard’s procedure last month as major surgery begetting a recovery “that’s going to require a great deal of time.