The Los Angeles Clippers will leave no stone unturned in their quest to convince Kawhi Leonard to sign with his “other” hometown team this summer. According to Marc Stein of The New York Times, the Clippers recently looked into acquiring rights to the now-defunct “Klaw” logo from Leonard's time with Nike as a means of courting him in free agency.

The Los Angeles Clippers are said to have quietly looked into the feasibility of purchasing the portion of the rights to Leonard’s “Klaw” logo that is still owned by Nike. The Clippers did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, but such an acquisition would theoretically enable them to bestow full control of the logo upon Leonard as part of their anticipated free-agency pitch meeting with the Toronto superstar.

The Times also notes that Nike has no intention of ever signing away the rights to the logo to prevent New Balance, Leonard's current endorser, from using it in any marketing for the Toronto Raptors superstar. But the bigger point here is that the Clippers went to such lengths despite the likelihood that, if they were successful, implementation of Leonard's old logo in their recruiting efforts would surely have been a violation of league rules – that is how bad Los Angeles wants to bring Leonard back to Southern California.

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Leonard, of course, has re-staked his claim as perhaps the best player in the world during the playoffs after missing almost all of lost season, under mysterious circumstances, with a quad injury. He's averaging 31.2 points, 8.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.6 steals per game in the postseason, with an elite true shooting percentage of 62.3. Perhaps his most valuable contribution in Toronto’s hard-fought victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals, though, came on the other side of the ball, when Leonard shifted onto Giannis Antetokounmpo in Game 3, helping propel the Raptors to four straight victories.

Needless to say, the league's landscape will be drastically altered no matter what Leonard decides this summer. Of most concern to him now, though, is dethroning the Golden State Warriors as a member of the Raptors in the NBA Finals.