The league values such planning. They …

The league values such planning. They contacted the Clippers in the offseason and asked if the team had any general road map for when Leonard might sit out, sources said. The Clippers replied that they could not provide one at that point. In the end, all these decisions — whether a team may rest a healthy player in a game normally subject to the resting policy, or whether a player designated as “injured” truly is injured — can be sent as high as Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner, for approval. “We are not getting gamed,” Spruell said.