{"id":301894,"date":"2025-11-22T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301894\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:46:08","slug":"sources-clippers-plan-for-kawhi-leonard-to-return-vs-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301894\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Clippers plan for Kawhi Leonard to return vs. Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 22, 2025, 12:12 PM ET<\/p>\n

The LA Clippers<\/a> are planning to have star forward Kawhi Leonard<\/a> return to action in Sunday’s road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Leonard is missing his 10th straight game Saturday afternoon as the Clippers play at the Charlotte Hornets<\/a>. He has been out since suffering a sprained right ankle and foot Nov. 3 against the Miami Heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A source said Leonard must still go through his pregame routine Sunday before he is set to play.<\/p>\n

Ty Lue said on Thursday that Leonard participated in Wednesday’s practice in Orlando, doing non-contact work and was feeling good.<\/p>\n

Injuries have repeatedly affected Leonard ever since the two-time NBA Finals MVP joined the Clippers in 2019. He missed the entire 2021-22 season while recovering from a serious right knee injury and missed the first 34 games of last season due to problems with the same knee.<\/p>\n

Leonard has played in six games this season, averaging 24.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 2025, 12:12 PM ET The LA Clippers are planning to have star forward Kawhi Leonard return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}