{"id":433672,"date":"2023-04-20T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433672"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:52:38","slug":"kawhi-leonard-will-miss-game-3-against-suns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kawhi-leonard-will-miss-game-3-against-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard will miss Game 3 against Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers announced that Kawhi Leonard could not play against Phoenix Suns in a few hours because of an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi injured his right knee in the win of the LA Clippers in Game 1 vs. Suns and played with pain in Game 2 from the series that Phoenix won.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Kawhi Leonard has been ruled out for Game 3 against the Suns because of a right knee sprain, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NotoriousOHM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He aggravated his knee in Game 1, played through it in Game 2 and is expected to be day-to-day ahead of Game 4, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kWWsrOjUN5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kWWsrOjUN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1649139766640754689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The star of the Los Angeles trauma had nothing to do with his ACL injury, and Leonard will be examined daily. Game 4 is on Saturday, and there is a small chance that Kawhi will be on the court.<\/p>\n<p>The other star of the Clippers, Paul George, will miss the entire series against the Suns and the chances of the Los Angeles franchise eliminating Phoenix don\u2019t look very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers announced that Kawhi Leonard could not play against Phoenix Suns in a few hours because of an injury. Kawhi injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433673,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17987,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18927,18478,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Clipper\u2019s star will not be available for the game tonight.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433672"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433672"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}