 started to swell up it happened about three weeks before the playoffs a lot of people at the time were suspicious that oh they're just trying to save him for that first round series i pushed back upon that because they had a huge game against the denver nuggets with seating implications and when he didn't play that night i knew something was off with kawhi leonard so the injury is legit he tried to give it a go against the dallas mavericks 30 at one point in game three where he looked like