{"id":946246,"date":"2026-10-25T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946246\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:22:14","slug":"kawhi-leonard-knee-out-for-toronto-raptors-against-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946246\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard (knee) out for Toronto Raptors against Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> will miss Sunday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> with left knee swelling, it was announced prior to tip-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This will be Leonard\u2019s first missed game of the regular season. According to TSN\u2019s Raegan Subban, Leonard will be evaluated on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard had 23 points in 23:56 in his Raptors re-debut in Wednesday\u2019s lopsided season-opener win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/chicago-bulls\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/chicago-bulls\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>. He followed that up with 19 points in 27:41 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/washington-wizards\/27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/washington-wizards\/27\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> Friday night as the Raps moved to 2-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard is averaging 19.5 points and 7.5 rebounds on 32.4 per cent shooting through his first two games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He averaged a career-best 27.9 points a night in 65 games last season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch the Raptors play the Timberwolves LIVE Sunday evening at 7pm ET\/4pm PT on TSN4, TSN.ca and the TSN App.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard will miss Sunday\u2019s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with left knee swelling, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,75910,82,96661],"class_list":["post-946246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kawhi-leonard-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-512591","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946246","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=946246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}