DENVER -- Last year at this time Kawhi Leonard was hobbled. It was painful to watch him try to play through the inflammation in his right knee in before the LA Clippers finally shut him down before Game 4 of their first-round playoff loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
It took months for Leonard to recover from his injuries. So long that the Clippers had to move on and figure out how to play without him for the first part of the season and reporters basically stopped asking coach Tyronn Lue for updates.