{"id":461579,"date":"2023-10-02T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461579"},"modified":"2023-10-02T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:45:08","slug":"kawhi-no-nba-policy-helping-me-play-more","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kawhi-no-nba-policy-helping-me-play-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi: &#8216;No NBA policy helping me play more&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no player in the league has been more associated with load management and the NBA\u2019s new player participation policy than Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard. Still, he wasn\u2019t concerned and claimed that the new rules would not put him on the court for more matches.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi was speaking for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since suffering his injury during his franchise 1<sup>st<\/sup> round postseason series vs. the Phoenix Suns in April. That problem marked the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in 3 seasons that Kawhi (32) suffered a right knee injury in the playoffs. Leonard tore his right ACL during the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the organization\u2019s 2021 run to the West Conference finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWhen I was with the Raptors, it was different. I was coming off an injury. You have to know the details\u2026 If the NBA is trying to mock that, then they should stop. Other than that, if I\u2019m able to play, I\u2019ll play basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard fires back the load management claims.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LI5qLqAMg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3LI5qLqAMg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1708907666041643214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After that problem, he missed the 2021-21 campaign. Kawhi has not played in more than 60 matches in any campaign since 2016-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no player in the league has been more associated with load management and the NBA\u2019s new player participation policy than Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461580,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17987,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18927,18478,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Leonard claimed that the new policy would not have an effect on him.","video":["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\/461579"}],"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=461579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461591,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461579\/revisions\/461591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461579"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461579"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}