Kawhi injury officially ruled a Knee sprain, day-to-day status according to Chris Haynes

[MartinToVaught]

Good post although I think MLB is way worse at marketing and drumming up excitement for its games also baseball's unwritten rules are killing the sport imo

Manfred's doing his best to turn baseball into a dysfunctional circus, but at least the MLB's media coverage is still the best in sports. Imagine the BS we'd be hearing about Mike Trout every day if the MLB's media was as bad as the NBA's.

[NippySudz]

Good post although I think MLB is way worse at marketing and drumming up excitement for its games also baseball's unwritten rules are killing the sport imo

Manfred's doing his best to turn baseball into a dysfunctional circus, but at least the MLB's media coverage is still the best in sports. Imagine the BS we'd be hearing about Mike Trout every day if the MLB's media was as bad as the NBA's.

mike trout is nonexistent to anyone that doesn't watch baseball. They dont' do a good job of pushing their stars. They just have the least amount of hot takes. That's probably due to the fact that no one watches them enough to make hot takes. All the hot take shows cover nfl, nba, the world series, and the occasional combat sport bout. That's it.

[KL2]

I highly doubt he returns this series. Now I'm beginning to question if he will even return at all

The kawhi part is at the 1 min mark.

When it was said he had an ACL sprain I didn’t expect him back this series at all. But I’m stupid enough to have hope since they’re not announcing he’s out, no surgery required, and how involved he’s still with the team.

Everything I’ve read it takes 2-6 weeks for a grade 1 to heal. 2 weeks obviously being the absolute best case and 6 weeks for a completely full heal.

Game 6 would be 2 weeks to the day he went back to LA to begin rehab. It makes sense he’s not flying to Phoenix for game 5 to continue rehab, less travel, etc.. If he’s not playing game 6 then he was never playing this series IMO.

[NippySudz]

I highly doubt he returns this series. Now I'm beginning to question if he will even return at all

The kawhi part is at the 1 min mark.

When it was said he had an ACL sprain I didn’t expect him back this series at all. But I’m stupid enough to have hope since they’re not announcing he’s out, no surgery required, and how involved he’s still with the team.

Everything I’ve read it takes 2-6 weeks for a grade 1 to heal. 2 weeks obviously being the absolute best case and 6 weeks for a completely full heal.

Game 6 would be 2 weeks to the day he went back to LA to begin rehab. It makes sense he’s not flying to Phoenix for game 5 to continue rehab, less travel, etc.. If he’s not playing game 6 then he was never playing this series IMO.

Yeah, when they said its unlikely he will return, I thought he wasn't going to, but was hopeful. I don't think he's returning at all, but I'm hopeful if the clippers win this series, he's able to return, but I know how cautious he and his team are with his body and rightfully so. I would hate for him to play and it turn into a KD-golden state situation and the relationship is fractured.

I just would hate for all the investment he put into the season to go to waste.


For some reason, I don't not believe the ACL sprain that's being floated out there. The clippers never announced it was an ACL sprain. They announced they fear it was an ACL injury. At least that's what I recall. Since then, they have just been calling it a knee sprain. Maybe its another ligament, maybe it doesn't matter in the recovery time or things or maybe it speeds it up faster. Who knows. All I know I don't expect him in this series.

[Clemenza]

Good post although I think MLB is way worse at marketing and drumming up excitement for its games also baseball's unwritten rules are killing the sport imo

Manfred's doing his best to turn baseball into a dysfunctional circus, but at least the MLB's media coverage is still the best in sports. Imagine the BS we'd be hearing about Mike Trout every day if the MLB's media was as bad as the NBA's.

Its terrible imo. Most people couldn't recognize Mike Trout if he was standing right in front of them. They don't need NBA type hot take tactics they just need to do something to at least promote their star players in the worst way

[nickhx2]

not that i don't think baseball isn't the absolute worst sport of the 4 major ones, because i absolutely do (i don't even remotely care about hockey either lol)

it's my understanding mike trout doesn't really wanna be that guy to begin with. so it doesn't really matter how good their media coverage is. all the while, MLB is kinda just dealing with scandal after scandal. they'll never be the power they once were, imo.

[MartinToVaught]

It's harder for the MLB to promote their stars because baseball is the ultimate team sport. There's no equivalent of a LeBron or a franchise QB or a hot goalie who can carry a team on their back. There's only so much impact a single player can have even if they're amazing at what they do.

The reason why I like the MLB's media is because there's more analytics and real analysis of the sport as opposed to soap opera drama and salty retired players downplaying current players. The actual problem with baseball right now is the moron of a commissioner who makes Bud Selig look good by comparison.

[KL2]

Miss watching him hoop. What could have been.

Rest up and get ready for next season.

[Quake Griffin]

It's harder for the MLB to promote their stars because baseball is the ultimate team sport. There's no equivalent of a LeBron or a franchise QB or a hot goalie who can carry a team on their back. There's only so much impact a single player can have even if they're amazing at what they do.

The reason why I like the MLB's media is because there's more analytics and real analysis of the sport as opposed to soap opera drama and salty retired players downplaying current players. The actual problem with baseball right now is the moron of a commissioner who makes Bud Selig look good by comparison.

This is true.

Following baseball is fun, informative, and you enjoy learning about the stats or milestones the players make…or the changes Farhan Zaidi is making to Kevin Gausman (much to my dismay).

It is hardly the hot take, my era > your era media in the NBA.
You don’t have idiots waking up every morning to tell you Willie Mays > Mike Trout.

I can’t imagine if the NBA had an equivalent of Clayton Kershaw.
Lmaooo. Everyday on tv it would be a blood bath

I enjoy it much more than following NBA.
Just my opinion.

[MartinToVaught]

It is hardly the hot take, my era > your era media in the NBA.
You don’t have idiots waking up every morning to tell you Willie Mays > Mike Trout.

I watch MLB Network a lot and they have a bunch of former players like Pedro, Smoltz, Thome, Harold Reynolds, Cliff Floyd, etc. Those guys are actually informative and provide insight based on their own playing days. They're not constantly spewing a bunch of insecure BS about how much better the players were back in their days. They give the current players their flowers. It's like night and day compared to retired NBA players. Iverson is really the only guy I can think of with that same kind of positive mindset towards the sport.

[mttwlsn16]

Good post although I think MLB is way worse at marketing and drumming up excitement for its games also baseball's unwritten rules are killing the sport imo

Manfred's doing his best to turn baseball into a dysfunctional circus, but at least the MLB's media coverage is still the best in sports. Imagine the BS we'd be hearing about Mike Trout every day if the MLB's media was as bad as the NBA's.

Its terrible imo. Most people couldn't recognize Mike Trout if he was standing right in front of them. They don't need NBA type hot take tactics they just need to do something to at least promote their star players in the worst way

Agreed. It doesn't help that Mike Trout has the personality of a lamp post either though.

Baseball does zero to promote their stars. You'd think with all the elite young guys like Tatis, Bellinger, Vlad Jr, Soto, Acuna, etc they'd try to make these guys the face of the game and known to everyone.

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[nickhx2]

also majorly hurts mlb that every time one of their young stars breaks an unwritten rule, their managers publicly s*** on them. it's so unreal and i have literally zero respect for those kinds of guys.

baseball is full of oldheads, cheating, and scandals that all feed into each other. 50 years from now when baseball is a dead sport it won't be hard to figure out why.

[GamecockFan1024]

We're missing Kawhi something fierce right now.

[KL2]

I wonder if we’ll even hear what the injury really was once the series is over?

[Clemenza]

I'm not feeling Kawhi sitting in the luxury suites away from the team like that in this dogfight type of series and its obvious him and Uncle Dennis have the team by the balls as they don't want the team to comment on his injury to the media. The team including PG still saying good things to the press about him and he can't say one good word about how the team is scrapping and battling without him in return? This situation is starting to look real funny right now

[TheNewEra]

I wonder if we’ll even hear what the injury really was once the series is over?

If it’s anything worse than a ACL sprain that’s a horrible thing to drop on fans. If it’s something minor and it’s not the ACL at all then fans might get pissed he didn’t play lol

[KL2]

I'm not feeling Kawhi sitting in the luxury suites away from the team like that in this dogfight type of series and its obvious him and Uncle Dennis have the team by the balls as they don't want the team to comment on his injury to the media. The team including PG still saying good things to the press about him and he can't say one good word about how the team is scrapping and battling without him in return? This situation is starting to look real funny right now

I don’t have any issue with him there. He wouldn’t be able to sit, jump up with the team nor stand the duration. With the media wanting to zero in on him he’d probably be a distraction.

We know how involved he is. He’s in the locker room before, at half, and after. He’s conferring with the coaches. He’s talking with all the guys be it in person, FaceTime, texts, etc..

What would concern me is if he wasn’t there at all.

[SK21209]

I'm not feeling Kawhi sitting in the luxury suites away from the team like that in this dogfight type of series and its obvious him and Uncle Dennis have the team by the balls as they don't want the team to comment on his injury to the media. The team including PG still saying good things to the press about him and he can't say one good word about how the team is scrapping and battling without him in return? This situation is starting to look real funny right now

I don’t have any issue with him there. He wouldn’t be able to sit, jump up with the team nor stand the duration. With the media wanting to zero in on him he’d probably be a distraction.

We know how involved he is. He’s in the locker room before, at half, and after. He’s conferring with the coaches. He’s talking with all the guys be it in person, FaceTime, texts, etc..

What would concern me is if he wasn’t there at all.

Yeah, at first I thought it was strange but I’m cool with it. Maybe Lue thinks it’s important for the team to not have Kawhi there to look to when they fall behind in these games. I think they all know he’s not coming back unless we somehow made it to like Game 6 or 7 of the Finals.

[esqtvd]

All may not be well inside the organization, though. Skip Bayless reported on Friday's edition of Undisputed that Leonard is unhappy with the Clippers' medical staff and believes they misdiagnosed the knee issue initially, leading to a more serious injury that has knocked him out of postseason play. He also reported Leonard is going to need surgery and is done for the rest of the playoffs.

https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/kawhi-leonard-clippers-unhappy-knee-skip-bayless-medical-staff-free-agency-01f9760p6max/partners/36534

[Quake Griffin]

Officially ruled out tomorrow.