“He came out in limited minutes, got a couple buckets, five assists, five rebounds, he was active but as the game went on it just got fatigued and sore and worse and worse,” Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. “You could see him there in the third, he was struggling to move, so I just pulled the plug on that. It just didn’t make sense. I wanted to protect him and make sure he was all right. But I give him a lot of credit for being out there.
“It’s just unfortunate timing and a very difficult one to handle, but you have to.”