{"id":537724,"date":"2026-03-15T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:33:10","slug":"kawhi-leonard-leaves-clippers-loss-with-sprained-left-ankle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537724\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard leaves Clippers&#8217; loss with sprained left ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.sg\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"87ff907c-c68c-a82d-1215-37e05d0c62ef\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6450\/kawhi-leonard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> limped off the court after suffering a sprained left ankle late in Saturday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.sg\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810830\/kings-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">118-109 home loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.sg\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard did not return to the game, and the Clippers did not say afterward whether he might miss time.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard was injured with 9:27 left in the fourth quarter when he was guarding <a data-player-guid=\"d942ef5e-c416-b06e-63ac-5f3db14757be\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3978\/demar-derozan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeMar DeRozan<\/a> and landed awkwardly before backpedaling a few steps and tumbling to the court. Leonard popped up quickly but limped noticeably to the Clippers&#8217; bench before heading to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard finished with 31 points for the Clips, whose four-game winning streak was snapped. It was Leonard&#8217;s 45th consecutive game with at least 20 points, topping Bob McAdoo&#8217;s franchise record set during the 1974-75 season when the team was based in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard is averaging a career-best 28.3 points in 52 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Clippers star Kawhi Leonard limped off the court after suffering a sprained left ankle late in Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-537724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724","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=537724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}