The Western Conference first-round playoff tilt has all the ingredients for a classic — it just needs the Clippers’ ailing superstar to suit up.
It’s unknown whether Kawhi Leonard will be able to play when his Clippers take on Dallas and their star Luka Doncic in Game 1 of the teams’ third playoff meeting in five seasons on Sunday. Leonard is considered questionable with right knee inflammation.
It’s a chess match on a roller coaster. An upside-down feast with all the fixings: Supernova sightings. Mad main-character energy. Home court advantage? Ha! A punchline. The Clippers beat them 4-2 in 2020 and then, despite being down 0-2 in 2021 after consecutive home losses, Lue’s squad was revived after itin Dallas. The Clippers went on to win in seven games, with Leonard bludgeoning the Mavs on their home floor in Game 6 – 45 points on 18-of-25 shooting – and the final blow coming at home, in an empty Crypto.com Arena, in what was the only home victory of the whole series.
“There is no gamesmanship here,” Frank said. It’s just what’s unknowable is unknowable, he said: “We’d love to have a crystal ball and Kawhi would love to have a crystal ball and know exactly on this day, but you just control what you can control.”
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