Swanson: Here we go again; Kawhi Leonard returns to boost Clipper hopes

INGLEWOOD – Guess who’s back? Back again?

Why, Kawhi of course.

The Clippers have closed the phone book on the 213 era, but for them, it’s still Kawhi Leonard, on loop. Basketball excellence with a bad knee, potentially historic upside in a heartbreakingly uncooperative body. It’s getting knocked down and getting back up, over and over again.

Because he “always comes back,” as he told us, in his most monotone, in that new New Balance ad. And so, like the pitchman said he’d be...