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The Los Angeles Clippers ruled Kawhi Leonard out for Game 3 on Thursday.

Leonard hasn't played since spraining his knee on June 14.

Chris Paul is expected to be cleared for Thursday's game. 

Via ESPN

Incredible that Kawhi has used "load management" for 3 seasons now -- and is not able to play in the WCF.

Unfortunately, this is the year that is perhaps the "easiest" road to the championship :

Western Conference :
* AD / Lebron knocked out early due to health
* Dame knocked out due to lack of defense
* Nuggets star backcourt of 5'10 campazzo & 10day contract Rivers
* Jazz #1 seed knocked out

Eastern Conference :
* Nets stars depleted - No Harden, No Kyrie
* Embiid playing injured & Simmons offense on milk carton
* Miami Heat turned out to be bubble imposters

Dude is soft as Charmin. When he right he can give you the business, but when he ain’t he basically a net negative for everything including team morale.

That knee barbecued. He won’t be back till next year and even then it’ll be in a reduced capacity

Who comes back from a sprained ACL? Spencer Dinnwidie? Before these two guys I have never heard of this.

njknicks wrote:Incredible that Kawhi has used "load management" for 3 seasons now -- and is not able to play in the WCF.

Unfortunately, this is the year that is perhaps the "easiest" road to the championship :

Western Conference :
* AD / Lebron knocked out early due to health
* Dame knocked out due to lack of defense
* Nuggets star backcourt of 5'10 campazzo & 10day contract Rivers
* Jazz #1 seed knocked out

Eastern Conference :
* Nets stars depleted - No Harden, No Kyrie
* Embiid playing injured & Simmons offense on milk carton
* Miami Heat turned out to be bubble imposters

Dude if Miami are bubble imposters why is the 5th seed in the ECF again.. I will also note in defence of Miami that Jimmy Butler was out a large portion of the year and they had to back up from the bubble with little rest. I do think Miami over performed but imposters is a bit rich..

Kawhi is a warrior. He is not soft, he would want to play. ACL damage is not something to fool with, it's not like Embiid's meniscus trouble. Although Embiid deserves a lot of credit for playing on his knee, it is not the same thing with Kawhi's knee

Kawhi will struggle more and more with leg issues as each year passes. He is amazing when he can attack and play above the rim because he attracts so much attention but the problem is, he is what i would term a very hard lander. Those hard landings will play havoc with a player's career especially as he ages. At some stage his game will become more of a a facilitator which he is becoming elite at, as well as a solid three point game, excellent rebounding, great BBIQ, as well as elite defender.

That sucks.