{"id":492477,"date":"2025-04-22T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492477"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:00:38","slug":"kawhi-notches-39-points-as-clippers-tie-matchup-with-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kawhi-notches-39-points-as-clippers-tie-matchup-with-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi notches 39 points as Clippers tie matchup with Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, Kawhi Leonard was hobbled. The superstar tried to compete through the pain, but it was not a pleasant view, and in the end, his team shut him down ahead of Game 4 of their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason defeat to the Mavs.<\/p>\n<p>It took the Clips star several months to recover from his problems. It forced LA to find a way to play without him at the beginning of the new campaign, and even the media stopped asking when we would see Leonard on the court again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KAWHI LEONARD MASTERPIECE IN GAME 2!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd90\ufe0f 39 PTS<br \/>\ud83d\udd90\ufe0f 15-19 FGM <br \/>\ud83d\udd90\ufe0f 5 AST<br \/>\ud83d\udd90\ufe0f 2 STL<br \/>\ud83d\udd90\ufe0f 4 3PM<\/p>\n<p>Clippers even the series 1-1 in a THRILLER in Denver \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9pFIrooD1a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9pFIrooD1a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1914546183420412111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In that time, Kawhi did everything possible to return to his best shape, and that paid off as he showed that in the Clippers\u2019 105-102 victory against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round West Conference postseason matchup at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that I\u2019m able to show my best game,\u201d Kawhi revealed after notching 39 points as he scored 15-for-19 from the field. \u201cThe most important thing for me is that I\u2019m healthy. I wasn\u2019t able to play in the postseason in the past 2 years. So to be on the court, it makes me happy no matter the result.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, Kawhi Leonard was hobbled. The superstar tried to compete through the pain, but it was not a pleasant view, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492478,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17987,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,18927,18478,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Leonard led his team to a victory against Los Angeles.","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\/492477"}],"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=492477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492479,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492477\/revisions\/492479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492477"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492477"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}