Kawhi Leonard favors health over playoff seeding

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00:00 When it comes to playoff matchups, playoff seeding, home court advantage, Kawhi Leonard

00:06 favors health over everything this season.

00:09 After the loss to the Brooklyn Nets, which was a very heavy loss in terms of playoff

00:14 seeding implications, the Clippers could have been a guaranteed top three seed with a win,

00:19 and now with the loss they could fall as low as to fourth or to third or who knows where

00:25 they end up, but a win would have guaranteed them top three seeding, especially when you're

00:29 up against a Nets team that was decimated by injuries and has no reason to even play

00:34 since they're already guaranteed a playoff spot.

00:38 When we asked Leonard about whether he cares about getting the two seed or the three seed

00:42 or whether, how do you balance all this together, he said at this point there's really no home

00:46 court advantage.

00:47 There's no fans out there, no travel.

00:50 I mean I definitely think the healthiest teams usually win it all.

00:54 So for Leonard, it's about health over everything.

00:57 And granted, I think he's a perfect example of that because he was a part of a Raptors

01:02 team that managed to be the healthiest team in the NBA last year and that's a big reason

01:07 why they defeated the Golden State Warriors.

01:10 And the Clippers have largely been unhealthy during the playoffs and that's why they always

01:14 lose so he isn't wrong in that regard.