Fans clamored for the return of Kawhi Leonard, who only started to play meaningful minutes one week ago. This was after missing the previous 27 games for the San Antonio Spurs, due to a right quad injury suffered in the offseason.
Since then, the Spurs played four games, with Leonard appearing in three of them (he missed one for rest). All of them saw him on a minutes restriction, as head coach Gregg Popovich said, before the Klaw’s first game back, according to ESPN’s Michael C. Wright.
Leonard played a combined 49 minutes through these three games.