{"id":300006,"date":"2025-11-22T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300006\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:58:07","slug":"report-clippers-kawhi-leonard-set-to-return-sunday-against-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300006\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Clippers&#8217; Kawhi Leonard set to return Sunday against Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/kawhi-leonard\/c12fb587-fc86-471c-8a84-19caf31325ce\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c12fb587-fc86-471c-8a84-19caf31325ce\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> will return to the lineup against the Cleveland Cavaliers after being sidelined by a foot injury, NBA insider Chris Haynes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1992272512957428052\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, 34, was limited to just six games this season before going down with an ankle and foot sprains against the Miami Heat on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s missed 10 games since, with an 11th set to come Saturday when the Clippers take on the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has struggled without its superstar, losing three straight to fall to 4-11 while sitting 13th in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p>Despite an off-season filled with allegations of salary-cap circumvention, Leonard has performed to his career norms when he&#8217;s taken to the court, averaging 24.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists per contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Kawhi Leonard will return to the lineup against the Cleveland Cavaliers after being sidelined by a foot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-300006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}