The Clippers’ victory against the best team in the league, the Boston Celtics, who are touring the west, was the best game of the season for Kawhi Leonard in the year of his return to the courts after his serious injury in 2021. The California forward, with a card of 25 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists in 29 minutes, led his team to leave a 113-93 in Los Angeles and keep his team in sixth place in the West.
However, Kawhi Leonard’s words to the press after the game have emerged, with which he has said that the regular season does not matter to him and that he is only focused on the playoffs. “I’m not worried about tonight… I don’t want to be here. I’m focusing on the end of the season. Playoff basketball.”
In a West that has been weakened for years, the Los Angeles Clippers march sixth, fighting and very even with Portland (5th) and Phoenix (4th). A rather low ranking for one of the rosters with the greatest depth, not only in the conference,
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but in the entire league: Paul George, John Wall, Reggie Jackson, Ivica Zubac, Robert Covington, Marcus Morris, Nico Batum…
The memory of Trae Young
Some words reminiscent of Trae Young’s, when he described the regular season as “boring”. For a team that has been contending for two years,
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but the furthest it has gotten is a conference finals, in addition to missing the playoffs last year, without Kawhi, this confession sounds like a big bravado, like Those statements from 2021 from the Atlanta Hawks base sounded at the time.
At the moment, the Clippers are a promise for a headless West where it will be necessary to see how strong and fearsome the team is with their return. And all that way will have to be in a phase that Kawhi himself has despised, the regular season. This will be the one that ends up assembling all the pieces with force and making these Clippers the team they have been dreaming of being since the summer of 2019.