Author: Daniel Strickland (Page 10 of 232)

Season 51, Game 33
San Antonio 89, Utah 100
22-11, 3rd in the West

Kawhi Leonard isn’t back yet.

Yes, he played more minutes Thursday night (20) than he had in any of his other three appearances this season, but he still doesn’t look like he did last season, or for that matter, any other season he’s played in the NBA.

Oddly enough, Greg Anthony commented on a shot block by Kawhi, and several of his scores (10 points on 4-of-8 shooting), as if he were playing at the same level he was last season, before Zaza Pachulia’s dirty foul in the Spurs-Warriors series.

Perhaps Greg Anthony’s powers of observation are suspect? At one point he said that the Spurs are “long in the tooth.” This was when Joe Johnson was on the court for Utah and Dejounte Murray, Bryn Forbes and Kyle Anderson were on the court for San Antonio.

But I digress…

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Season 51, Game 29
San Antonio 109, Houston 124
19-10, 3rd in the West

Tonight Kawhi Leonard played in his second game of the season and his 400th in the NBA. The Spurs lost.

Still, Kawhi has more wins (306) in his first 400 games than any other player in NBA history.

Tonight marked Kawhi Leonard’s 400th career game. He has more wins in his first 400 games than any other player in @NBA history. pic.twitter.com/v0nCipkKnf

— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) December 16, 2017

That says as much about the Spurs’ level of excellence as it does about Kawhi’s these last six plus seasons.

Other than Kawhi’s milestone, there’s not much else to say about this game.

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