Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson confirmed Sunday that he has spoken with Kawhi Leonard and his uncle about joining the Lakers.

According to Brad Turner of The Los Angeles Times there is no meeting set up at this time for a face to face meeting between Johnson and Leonard.

This comes only a couple of days after Johnson told ESPN that Leonard had requested that he join in on the Lakers meeting.

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“A friend of mine called and says Kawhi wants to meet with you,” Johnson told ESPN on Friday. “I said no problem. I'm available if that's what this man wants.”

Johnson has made it clear that he doesn't want to step up any toes in the organization, but he is willing to help the team in any way he can.

The Lakers are expected to get an official meeting with Leonard before he makes his final decision on where he wants to continue to play basketball. Since Johnson is not officially employed by the Lakers he cannot be involved in any of the official meetings, but he is allowed to meet with Leonard if it's an unofficial meeting.

The Lakers have made it clear to Leonard's camp they have interest in signing the two-time Finals MVP, but it's unclear how much mutual interest there is. If the Lakers were able to convince Leonard to sign that would create quite the trio pairing him up with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. It would be a new big three and the start of a different era of basketball in LA.