{"id":399927,"date":"2026-11-11T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/?p=399927"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:28:41","slug":"another-week-without-kawhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/another-week-without-kawhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Another week without Kawhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s return to the court will have to wait. Although it seemed that the forward could be back in action these days, the Toronto Raptors have confirmed that he will need more time to continue recovering from inflammation in his knee, so he will be out for at least another week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Raptors say Kawhi Leonard will miss at least one more week as he recovers from swelling in his left knee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XP83v6ISX7\">pic.twitter.com\/XP83v6ISX7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2120207784922825148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kawhi was only able to play the first two regular-season games before he began to suffer these problems, which forced him off the court and into a course of treatment that, according to the franchise, has been successful. If he returns within seven days, he would complete his recovery three and a half weeks after his last game, meeting the timeframe initially announced of between three and four weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without Leonard, the Raptors have posted a 3-5 record that has stopped them from getting going, although, with the two wins achieved with him in the line-up, they remain sixth in the East. However, against the stronger opponents, it is clear that this is still a team with limitations when it comes to scoring in the half court, limitations that the former Clippers man should help to solve, as he already did in his first two games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those games, 26 minutes on the floor were enough for him to average 19.5 points and 7.5 rebounds, and although he did so with poor shooting percentages, his mere presence helps create chances for the rest. And precisely for that reason, the Canadians are already counting the days until they have him back in their ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward played his last game two and a half weeks ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":399928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70,71],"class_list":["post-399927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-toronto-raptors","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/kawhi-leonard-1-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kiera Gardner","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/author\/kiera\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399932,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399927\/revisions\/399932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}