The Latest Breaking News from Kawhi Leonard

The first sign that things were different for the Clippers wasn’t seen so much as it was heard, some 90 minutes before Wednesday’s tipoff. It was the sound of sneakers on cement flooring reaching full speed down a hallway leading from the court to the team’s Crypto.com Arena locker rooms.

LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Batum, as passionate a fan of France's national soccer team as there is, said he tried recovering from Les Bleus' World Cup final defeat by spending Sunday walking around Disneyland with his family.

LOS ANGELES — When Kawhi Leonard checked back in with 6 minutes 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter Saturday afternoon at Crypto.com Arena, the game hung in the balance and the Clippers needed someone to take control.

LOS ANGELES — Three nights after the Clippers thumped the league-best Boston Celtics, their customers spent hundreds of dollars to enter the arena Thursday and watch a Clippers team that didn't include Kawhi Leonard …

LOS ANGELES — One by one, the starting lineup arrived inside Crypto.com Arena.

When all 7 feet 2 of Rudy Gobert toppled over and into Marcus Morris Sr. underneath the basket late in the fourth quarter, Clippers players all too familiar with injuries instinctively rushed over to their teammate sprawled on the court.

More disconnected play and a lack of mobile, competent depth in the frontcourt sunk the Celtics.

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One is the league’s best team, by record, the other perhaps its streakiest, by the eye test.

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WASHINGTON — It looked like a wave and sounded like a party as fans here rose from their lower-bowl seats and roared for the visiting point guard Washington once called its own for a decade.