INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — LA Clippers guard Bradley Beal is done for the season. Kawhi Leonard has an ankle and a foot sprain with no timetable to return.

Beal has a hip fracture and will undergo surgery next week, the team announced Wednesday. He is expected to make a full recovery in six to nine months.

“This is a very, very fluky injury,” Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations, said. “The surgeon said it’s almost like the equivalent of if you were in like a car accident. It’s an atypical kind of basketball injury. It’s more of an acute trauma-type injury.”

Leonard missed his fifth game of the season with a sprained right ankle Wednesday night against the Denver Nuggets.

“It wasn’t just an ankle sprain,” Frank said when asked for an update on Leonard. “He also had a sig

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