You, a diehard Spurs fan, are not asking for much. It’s just that you’re sick of the constant guessing game, and understandably so. All you want is a little clarity.

You’re trying to keep this in perspective. You really are. But it sure would be easier to move on with your daily life — to focus on your job, your kids, your dog — if somebody just would answer a simple question.

Is Kawhi Leonard going to play again this season or not? A firm yes or a firm no would be great, because then you would finally know, one way or the other. The only thing you can say for certain now is that you have gotten your hopes up for the last time.

And if it makes you feel any better, there is another middle-aged man in Spurs gear who is sick of it, too.

“We fell for it a week ago — again,” Manu Ginobili said Wednesday of another round of premature reports about Leonard’s supposed return. “I guess you guys (media) 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.”

Here is the thing you, a diehard Spurs fan, needs to understand about the question you want answered:

There are multiple people in the Spurs locker room who have asked it, too. During the last week, in fact, players have requested a status update from Leonard. This was not done in a confrontational way, nor was any pressure exerted on him to come back if he is not ready.

The problem — which Ginobili acknowledged without saying it in so many words Wednesday — is that the players still don’t know any more about Leonard’s prognosis than the fans do.

This entire situation is out of the Spurs’ hands. When Leonard and his doctors feel he is healthy enough to take the floor again, he will. If and when he does, he will make the Spurs better, and they would be crazy not to welcome him back. There is still hope that could happen by the end of this month.

But hope can drive a person crazy, and it’s easy to see why the Spurs’ don’t want to cling to that version of it anymore. As Tony Parker mentioned last week, “at some point it makes no sense.”

So they move on, just as Gregg Popovich urged them to do at the All-Star break, and recent results show it is working. Wednesday’s trouncing of Washington at the AT&T Center marked the Spurs’ fifth victory in a row, and after flirting with the possibility of missing the playoffs earlier this month they still have a realistic shot at securing home-court advantage in the first round.

Some people — including Popovich in February — have tossed out the idea that there will be a point in which it will be too late for Leonard to come back this season. But that makes little sense, and even Popovich has changed his tune on that line of thinking. This week, he scoffed at the notion of setting a date by which Leonard needs to be back on the floor.

And it is not as though Leonard lacks support from his teammates. The Spurs respect his work ethic. They know he would rather be playing.

And guys like Ginobili, who have experienced the frustration of dealing with injuries, are sensitive to the difficulties that can come along with being part of a team when you are not physically able to contribute.

“Sometimes you feel like an alien to the core group and you have to fight through it,” Ginobili said. “You have to make an effort to still be around and be part of the everyday topics and the good things and the bad things. So you have go to make an effort.”

For Leonard, part of that effort is easy. He puts in his time in the weight room. He is keeping himself in shape. He watches film.

But he’s also the most introverted star in the NBA, and perhaps in all of professional sports, so that sense of alienation Ginobili described might be more pronounced in his case.

Before Wednesday’s game, Popovich was asked if, with that in mind, he has made any extra effort to make sure Leonard feels connected with the rest of the group. After a quick joke about how he just ignores him and treats him “like a pariah,” Popovich said he doesn’t consider it an issue.

“He’s a nice guy,” Popovich said. “I love the kid. What am I going to do?”

All he can do is exactly what Ginobili suggested. He and the Spurs will proceed as though Leonard is not going to return, and they will treat anything Leonard gives him over the next couple of months as a bonus.

They will encourage their best player, and they will support him, but they will not count on him. They will not count on him because he cannot answer their biggest question, which happens to be the same as yours.

For their own sanity, the Spurs are moving on. You, a diehard Spurs fan, probably can do the same for yours.