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Since sustaining a cracked mouth during the Clippers’ Christmas game against the Denver Nuggets, Kawhi Leonard has been out of service for his team and has not beaten in the last two games. That changed on Wednesday when he returned to court against the Portland Trail Blazers.

The injury Leonard sustained required eight stitches and was not fully healed when he returned to court, which meant he had to wear a face shield to protect his mouth area from a hit. But when images of the Clippers star popped up in the mask, people noticed that it was shaped a little oddly.

Of course, many NBA fans will be the face mask that players break out frequently, with Rip Hamilton, the former Pistons star who regularly wears one after breaking his nose twice in a season, and doctors telling him that he would need to bring her to bear in order to avoid reconstructive surgery. With the familiarity of this mask that other players have worn since Hamilton put his on in its early infancy, it is quite different from Leonard.

In many cases, that difference is pretty funny too, as many Twitter users pointed out during Wednesday’s game. Here are some of the best tweets from Leonard’s return to the yard with his interesting new face mask.

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