Kawhi Leonard is in a rehabilitation program for right quadriceps tendinopathy and is expected to miss the 2017 preseason, the Spurs announced in a press release on Saturday.
Leonard battled a troublesome right quad toward the end of last season and was hampered by a right ankle injury in the playoffs. Despite the injuries, the defensive specialist played in a career-high 74 regular season games averaging 25.5 PPG, 5.8 RPG, and 1.8 SPG.
The 26-year-old came in third place for the NBA Most Valuable Player award, behind winner Russell Westbrook and James Harden.
pretty sure many consider kawhi much more than just a “defensive specialist” nowadays
In all seriousness, Kawhi is awesome on offense.
He handles the ball, finds the open guy, can hit the three and the medium-range jumper.
He’s strong and creats his own shot. He really is the man and became a great player through hard work.
Hope he comes back a hundred percent and quick.
Well, there’s always next year…
Its just preseason
Just trying to be funny.
There’s a long-running joke before the Cubs were good recently that Harry Caray would call a strike on the first batter in the first game of the year and then say,
“well, there’s always next year.”
You know, the last time the Spurs had their MVP candidate player go down to injury the net result was Tim Duncan. I think I could take a lost season for that again.