Clippers face Nets in first basketball game at Frontwave Arena – NBC 7 San Diego

The first basketball game at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside will be played on Tuesday night, with the Los Angeles Clippers taking on the Brooklyn Nets in a sold-out NBA preseason game.

The Clippers have limited former San Diego State star Kawhi Leonard's activities in training camp as he tries to recover from swelling in his right knee. He did not play in Saturday's preseason opener in Honolulu.

The Clippers' second player with games in San Diego, former Lincoln High School star Norman Powell, scored 11 points in 15 minutes, 19 seconds in the 91-90 loss to the Golden State Warriors.

NBC 7's Omari Fleming gives us a look at Frontwave Arena and its potential impact on Oceanside.

At least two of the players on the Clippers' roster for Tuesday's game will return to Frontwave Arena to play for their NBA G League affiliate, the San Diego Clippers – small forwards Trentyn Flowers and Jordan Miller Both have a two-way contract, limiting them to 50 games with the NBA Clippers.

Flowers, 19, will not participate in training camp while he recovers from left wrist surgery. Flowers signed with the Clippers as an undrafted rookie after playing for the Adelaide 36ers of Australia's National Basketball League last season.

Miller averaged 1.6 points in eight games for the Clippers last season after being selected in the second round of the 2023 NBA Draft after helping lead Miami to its first Final Four. Miller's coach with the Hurricanes was Jim Larrañaga, the father of Clippers assistant coach Jay Larrañaga.

Tuesday's game marks the start of the preseason for the Nets, who announced Monday that center Day'Ron Sharpe and forward Trendon Watford were each diagnosed with a left hamstring strain after sustaining injuries during training camp practice last week and are still excluded from activities on the pitch.