{"id":584757,"date":"2026-04-15T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:32:08","slug":"kawhi-leonard-lauds-warriors-ahead-of-play-in-tournament-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584757\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard lauds Warriors ahead of Play-In Tournament matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard had high praise for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Golden State Warriors&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Golden State Warriors<\/a> ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s Play-In Tournament matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard knows the organization quite well, as the 14-year forward has spent plenty of time as their opponent. Leonard battled the Warriors in the playoffs as a member of the San Antonio Spurs and in the 2019 NBA Finals as a member of the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s (Curry) one of the greatest players to play this game,&#8221; Leonard said. &#8220;Even if it&#8217;s just a pickup game, just being able to share the floor with a player like that, being coached by Steve Kerr, also playing with Draymond, that unit over there of championship pedigree. It&#8217;s a great opportunity. You can&#8217;t take it for granted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leonard and the Clippers enter the game as slight favorites, having taken the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/warriors\/2026\/04\/14\/kawhi-leonard-lauds-warriors-ahead-of-play-in-tournament-matchup\/89615584007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kawhi Leonard lauds Warriors ahead of Play-In Tournament matchup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kawhi Leonard lauds Warriors ahead of Play-In Tournament matchup&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kawhi Leonard lauds Warriors ahead of Play-In Tournament matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard had high praise for the Golden State Warriors ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s Play-In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2243,11653,11952,355,245538,2116,99,2970],"class_list":["post-584757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-pickup-game","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584757","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=584757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}