Mar 16, 2026, 04:12 PM ET<\/p>\n
LA Clippers<\/a> star Kawhi Leonard<\/a> has been ruled out of Monday night’s game against the Spurs due to a left ankle sprain.<\/p>\n He suffered the injury late in Saturday’s home loss to the Kings. He limped off with 9:27 left in the fourth quarter after landing awkwardly while backpedaling and guarding DeMar DeRozan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Leonard did not return to the game. He finished with 31 points for the Clippers, his 45th consecutive game with at least 20 points — a franchise record.<\/p>\n The veteran is averaging a career-best 28.3 points in 53 games this season but can miss only two more games to meet the threshold of 65 games played to qualify for end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n The Spurs, meanwhile, will be without center Luke Kornet<\/a> and rookie Dylan Harper<\/a> in Monday’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 16, 2026, 04:12 PM ET LA Clippers star Kawhi Leonard has been ruled out of Monday night’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-527627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}