The Los Angeles Clippers will be without Paul George and Luke Kennard for their upcoming back-to-back against the Portland Trail Blazers and the Utah Jazz, while they wait to discover if Kawhi Leonard will suffer the same fate.
Kennard is the longest-serving absentee of the trio having missed the past six games with a right calf strain, while George and Leonard have missed the last four and three games respectively, the former with a hamstring tendon strain and the latter with an ankle sprain.
It compounds a start to the season in which the Clippers haven’t been able to field their strongest players on a regular basis, though there have been some highlights along the way during their 12-9 run – Ivica Zubac’s 31 and 29 game against the Indiana Pacers serves as the most recent standout example of this squad’s ‘next man up’ mentality.