Raptors look to recharge
May 27: at Boston, 8 p.m.
May 29: at Boston, 8 p.m.
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TORONTO — For Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors, Monday was all about rest and recovery.
Coming off a season in which he sat out 22 regular-season games and never played on back-toback nights as part of a plan to manage his workload, Leonard played a playoff career-high 52 minutes in a double-overtime victory over the Bucks on Sunday.
The Raptors cut their deficit to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference finals, but it may have come at a cost. Leonard battled through both extra sessions while dealing with soreness in his leg. Pascal Siakam also had a long night, playing 51 minutes for Toronto, which tries to even the series in Game 4 Tuesday.
Leonard didn’t speak to reporters Monday, but Raptors coach Nick Nurse said the star player isn’t injured, just fatigued.
“The consensus today is he’s tired, and he’s got two days and will be ready to go,” Nurse said. “Those are kind of the words coming out of his mouth: little tired, but he’ll get his rest, got two days, and he’ll be ready.”
Leonard played only nine games in 2017-18 because of a quadriceps injury. He was traded from the Spurs to the Raptors after that season, and Toronto made keeping him fresh a priority.
He acknowledged feeling sore after scoring 36 points in Game 3 but insisted he’d be ready to go on Tuesday.
The Bucks are still expecting Leonard to be at his best.
“He’s going to shoot with one, two, sometimes even three or four guys on him,” Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton said. “I keep saying this over and over: He’s a great player. You can’t stop great players. You can only make it tough on them.”
Leonard isn’t just an offensive force. A twotime Defensive Player of the Year, he helped limit Giannis Antetokounmpo to 12 points on 5-for-16 shooting in Game 3.
Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer was asked whether his team might fare better in Game 4 with Leonard battling fatigue.
“I don’t know that we can go any harder at Kawhi than we are,” Budenholzer said. “We’ve been throwing a lot at Kawhi, and we’ll continue to do that.” Auto racing: Indianapolis 500 pole winner Simon Pagenaud devoted Monday’s practice to working exclusively in race trim. The result didn’t change. The Team Penske driver remained atop the speed chart for another day, this time in the second-to-last practice for Sunday’s race. His fast lap of 228.441 mph in cool temperatures bettered that of teammate and 2017 series champion Josef Newgarden at 228.273 . ... Retired twotime Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr. was arrested early Monday in central Indiana and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Unser, 57, was stopped in Avon, just west of Indianapolis. An officer pulled Unser’s vehicle over shortly after 1 a.m., clocking it going 59 mph in a 45 mph zone and drifting from his driving lane, according to a police report. Unser said he hadn’t been drinking. He staggered to the rear of the vehicle after exiting the car, lost his balance, fell to the ground and rolled down an embankment, the report said . ... Threetime Formula One world champion Niki Lauda, who won two of his titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to become a prominent figure in the aviation industry, has died. He was 70. The Austria Press Agency reported Lauda’s family saying in a statement he “passed away peacefully” on Monday.
Hockey: Canada shut out Denmark 5-0 for a fifth straight victory at the world championship in Kosice, Slovakia. Sam Reinhart scored two goals and the others came from Jonathan Marchessault, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Jared McCann. Canada climbed to second in Group A with 15 points, one behind leading Finland and one ahead of the Unites States. The Canadians close the preliminary round against the U.S. on Tuesday . ... More than 200 of the world’s top women’s hockey players have formed a union, saying they must “stand together” if there is to be a sustainable professional league. The Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) said the paperwork was filed Friday.
NBA: The Timberwolves have chosen Ryan Saunders as their full-fledged coach — the first millennial to hold the job in the NBA. Saunders, 33, will stay in the post he held on an interim basis. The nextyoungest coach in the league behind Saunders is the Kings’ Luke Walton, who is 39. He just missed the millennial cutoff, defined by the Pew Research Center as people with birth dates between 1981 and 1996.
NFL: Redskins LB Reuben Foster appeared to injure his left knee during his first snap at an offseason practice and was taken off the field on a cart. Foster stepped on one of offensive lineman Tyler Catalina’s feet, his left leg landed wrong and he went down in obvious pain. His left leg was stabilized before he was carted off, The team is awaiting results from an MRI and other tests.
Track and field: Caster Semenya will compete in the 3,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic next month in Stanford, California, a distance that doesn’t fall under track and field’s new rules for testosterone limits. The two-time Olympic 800meter champion from South Africa said earlier this month that she won’t submit to new regulations that require female athletes with high levels of natural testosterone to medically lower those levels in order to be eligible to compete in events ranging from 400 meters to the mile.