Team USA’s Kawhi Leonard call left Clippers’ Lawrence Frank ‘very disappointed’
NY Post
Kawhi Leonard won’t always have Paris, and Lawrence Frank isn’t pleased about it.
The Clippers president of basketball operations expressed his displeasure days after USA Basketball determined it was in Leonard’s “best interest” to sit out the 2024 Olympics due to lingering knee issues.
“It was USAB’s call, and I was, quite frankly, very disappointed with the decision,” Frank told reporters in Las Vegas on Monday. “Kawhi wanted to play. We wanted him to play.”
The two-time Finals MVP was replaced by the Celtics’ Derrick White after last week’s training camp for the team.
Leonard finished the 2024 NBA season battling chronic knee soreness and inflammation, which sidelined him for the Clippers final three playoff games.
Prior to being cut, Leonard participated in the early practices of Team USA’s four-day camp — with Frank in attendance.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
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