On Saturday, the Kawhi Leonard situation took yet another turn.

For the second time, he decided to leave the team and travel to New York City to rehabilitate his quad injury.

“For the second time this season, San Antonio Spurs star Kawhi Leonard has traveled to New York to continue rehabilitation for his lingering right quad injury under the supervision of outside medical personnel, league sources told ESPN,” Adrian Wojnarowski and Michael C. Wright reported. “Leonard has been in New York since Monday, and there's no timetable set on a possible return to San Antonio, sources said."

Even though members of the Spurs staff accompanied him to the Big Apple, it’s clear that Leonard and the team have been at odds over his inability to return to the court while San Antonio is engaged in a tight battle to make it into the playoffs.

"I've been through it," Tony Parker told reporters recently. "It was a rehab for me for eight months. Same kind of injury, but mine was 100 times worse. But the same kind of injury. You just try to stay positive.”

"He is not coming back," Manu Ginobili said. "For me, he's not coming back, because it's not helping [to think Leonard is returning]. We fell for it a week ago again. I guess you guys made us fall for it. But we have to think that he's not coming back, that we are who we are, and that we got to fight without him. That shouldn't be changing, at least until he is ready for the jump ball.”

Before taking down the Houston Rockets without Leonard on Sunday, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich addressed the topic in front of reporters yet again.

"I don't know when he's going to feel, he and his group are going to feel like they're ready to go," Popovich said Sunday before a game against Houston. "If I knew, he'd be here. When he and his group feel he's ready, he'll be ready,” Pop said, via the Associated Press.

"He's trying to get well," Popovich added. "Of course that's the purpose [of his stay in New York], to get well, that's what he's doing. That's what rehab is. He's up there going to Broadway shows and everything?”

With his classic dose of sarcasm, Popovich made it clear that it’ll be up to Leonard and “his group” to determine when he will return to the team. Therefore, it seems like the organization has little-to-no control over the situation at the moment.

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