Durability has always been the knock on Leonard. He hasn't played in 70 games in a single season since the 2016-17 campaign, and with the Clippers, he has totaled 266 contests in six seasons, including the 2021-22 season he missed due to injury.

That ineptitude continued on Saturday when the Clippers got run out of Ball Arena by the Denver Nuggets in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series, 120-101. As a result, one has to wonder if

Tyronn Lue and the Los Angeles Clippers exited the playoffs in disappointing fashion, falling 120-101 to the Denver Nuggets. Despite entering the postseason on a hot streak—winning 18 of their final 21 regular-season games—and extending the series with a dominant Game 6 win,