Knee stiffness sidelines Kawhi Leonard as Clippers fall to Thunder

Clippers guard Terance Mann sat in a chair, his head in his palms, in the corner of the visitor's locker room. To his left, point guard Reggie Jackson looked ahead with a thousand-yard stare, still in his blue uniform a half-hour after the final buzzer had ended a night in which little had gone right.

entered this season knowing it would take time to see their full potential as they slowly worked and back, after their long basketball layoffs, into what eventually will be regular rotation roles.