Kawhi Leonard favors health over playoff seeding

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

00:06favors health over everything this season.

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

00:14seeding implications, the Clippers could have been a guaranteed top 3 seed with a win, and

00:19now with the loss they could fall as low as to 4th, or to 3rd, or who knows where they

00:25end up, but a win would have guaranteed them top 3 seeding, especially when you're going

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

00:35they're already guaranteed a playoff spot.

00:38When we asked Leonard about whether he cares about getting the 2 seed or the 3 seed, or

00:43how do you balance all this together, he said at this point there's really no home court

00:47advantage, there's no fans out there, no travel, I mean I definitely think the healthiest teams

00:52usually win it all.

00:54So for Leonard, it's about health over everything, and granted I think he's a perfect example

00:59of that because he was a part of a Raptors team that managed to be the healthiest team

01:04in the NBA last year, and that's a big reason why they defeated the Golden State Warriors.

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

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