Kawhi Leonard Articles - Page 49

The world is not-so-patiently awaiting Kawhi Leonard’s free agency decision, but Toronto fan and rapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham may have sweetened the pot for the Toronto Raptors’ offer. Drake is now a courtside mainstay for the Raptors, who are coming off the heels of their first NBA title. Toronto couldn’t have done it without the […]

The NBA is full of influential athletes, but which player in the league currently has the most power? Is it LeBron James? Is it Kevin Durant? ESPN analyst and former NBA player Ryan Hollins thinks it’s Kawhi Leonard. Hollins makes a great point. The fact that Kawhi Leonard currently has the entire league on standby […]

Kawhi Leonard would make less money if he signs with the Los Angeles Lakers after the Anthony Davis trade goes through, according to Jeff Siegel of Early Bird Rights. Leonard can sign with the Lakers after the Davis trade is complete and make $29.55 million in his first year, more than $3 million below his […]

Over one-third of the NBA could be affected by Kawhi Leonard’s free-agency decision delay, according to Jeff Siegel of Early Bird Rights. In addition to the Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the New Orleans Pelicans, Washington Wizards, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, Memphis Grizzlies, Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz are […]

Cris Carter now says Kawhi Leonard won’t make his free agency decision on Friday. Earlier in the day, Carter reported Leonard could make his decision today. Cris Carter has been consistently plugged into Leonard’s camp. During his playing days in the NFL, Carter was represented by Mitch Frankel, who represents Leonard at the moment: #KawhiUpdate: […]

#Kawhiwatch has reached its full capacity for viewership, as tons of NBA fans have tuned into airport feeds and decipher any hint that would indicate whether the NBA Finals MVP has indeed made a decision on his future. Most recently, a Toronto Raptors plan has touched down in San Diego, where Kawhi Leonard lives and […]

The process to recruit Kawhi Leonard to San Diego State was eerily similar to what three huge NBA fan bases are experiencing now — a whole lot of radio silence and uncertainty. The Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers and L.A. Clippers have met with the star forward and recently-crowned NBA champion, but his camp wants […]

Kawhi Leonard Watch continues post-July 4, as the superstar free agent still hasn’t made his decision. FS1’s Cris Carter had hinted Thursday there would be no decision on the 4th of July and that it would instead be coming the next day, and he again reiterated that Friday morning: "For Kawhi, this is about which […]

Free agent shooting guard Danny Green admits he hasn’t spoken directly to superstar small forward Kawhi Leonard about free agency this summer. Green says he doesn’t want to blow up Leonard’s phone because he knows the two-time Finals MVP has a lot of people in his ear at the moment. Danny Green hasn’t spoken directly […]

Kawhi Leonard has the world waiting for his decision on whether he will return to the Toronto Raptors or sign with one of the Los Angeles teams. But for San Antonio Spurs forward Quincy Pondexter, he wants Leonard to sign elsewhere. Pondexter took to Twitter to give his take on the ongoing drama about Leonard’s […]

Toronto Raptors free agent Danny Green says it “would be great to know” what Kawhi Leonard is going to do sooner rather than later. If Leonard re-signs with the Raptors, Green will likely do the same. However, if Leonard joins the Los Angeles Lakers or Los Angeles Clippers, Green will probably look to leave Toronto […]

If the Toronto Raptors have Drake as one of the people who are helping them convince Kawhi Leonard to stay, the Los Angeles Lakers also have a rapper of their own who’s trying to persuade the two-time Finals MVP to come home to Southern California and join the Purple and Gold. .@SnoopDogg trying to convince […]

On Wednesday, ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose reported he’s hearing there’s a 99 percent chance Kawhi Leonard will re-sign with the Toronto Raptors. Rose was the first person last season to report Leonard would never play for the San Antonio Spurs again, so he has a track record of being right when it comes to […]

Thew New York Knicks had dreams of signing the two biggest stars of the 2019 NBA free-agent class in Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard and cementing a new era in “The Mecca of Basketball ” Despite these grandiose visions, however, Ric Bucher of Bleacher Report writes that Leonard would only pair with Durant with the Los Angeles […]

All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard still hasn’t made his free-agent decision yet, and according to a report by FS1’s Cris Carter, the reigning Finals MVP does not plan to make his announcement on the 4th of July: Breaking news:After very impressive meetings with the Toronto Raptors and others yesterday, reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and […]

While it feels like Toronto Raptors superstar Kawhi Leonard is taking forever to make his free agency decision, it has not been longer than four days, but it could take a while for Leonard to announce. Everyone glued to their feeds waiting for Kawhi news to break: SDSU's coaching staff wasn't even positive he was […]

The Kawhi Leonard domino effect is likely to leave plenty of casualties in its wake, among them is center Marc Gasol, the center the Toronto Raptors acquired at the trade deadline that helped bolster them to their first-ever NBA title. Yet there is no such thing as fair gratitude in the NBA — if Leonard […]

Kawhi Leonard’s meeting with the Toronto Raptors earlier is the last of multiple appointments he set up with the teams who are aiming to acquire him. Now that he’s already heard the pitches of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers, his decision might come any moment now. According to Chris Broussard, Leonard […]

The latest episode of #KawhiWatch has NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter predicting Kawhi Leonard will wait until Friday to announce his much-awaited free agency decision. Leonard will either pick the Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers or Los Angeles Clippers . Via RealGM: “I think he’s going to make an announcement on Friday,” said Cris Carter […]

The latest rumors reveal that Danny Green might end up not following Kawhi Leonard if the latter signs with the Los Angeles Lakers. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Green has been waiting on what will happen with the Lakers. Per Mavericks reporter Blake Weir, if Leonard joins LeBron James and Anthony Davis, then Green will […]

The Los Angeles Lakers, L.A. Clippers, and Toronto Raptors are waiting on 2019 NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard to make his free agency decision. According to Jabari Young of The Athletic, Leonard is still mulling his decision and will not make it on Wednesday night. In fact, Young says it could take a few days. […]

The New York Knicks have already been highly criticized for their handling of free agency. The Knicks entered the summer as a favorite to land at least one max-level free agent. Whether that was Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard , Kemba Walker or Jimmy Butler, it did seem as though the Knicks would sign […]

The Kawhi Leonard question directly affects three NBA organizations. Two reside in Los Angeles. Heading into the summer of 2019, the Los Angeles Clippers were arguably in the best position of any team in the NBA. They had made a scintillating run to the playoffs and earned the respect of the Golden State Warriors in […]

Just like the rest of the NBA world, Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns is fascinated by Kawhi Leonard’s free agency, also known as #KawhiWatch. Leonard has yet to make his free agency decision. The Timberwolves star feels like the NBA has never seen anything like #KawhiWatch before: Have we ever witnessed something like […]

An anonymous NBA player likely to be impacted by Kawhi Leonard’s free agency decision has heard the star will stay with Toronto Raptors, according to Tim MacMahon of ESPN. MacMahon emphasized the player isn’t Danny Green, who is an unrestricted free agent as well and close with Leonard. An NBA player likely to be impacted […]

Earlier in the season, Toronto Raptors big man Serge Ibaka had Kawhi Leonard on as a guest on his “How Hungry are You?” series and posed Leonard the question about whether or not he was going to re-sign, to which Leonard stared blankly. It was obviously a joke, and now, with Leonard’s free-agency decision hanging […]

Kawhi Leonard is basically the final shoe waiting to drop in free agency, and his decision is expected to come soon. As for who will break Leonard’s free-agent decision? Odds Shark has ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski as the favorite, surprise, surprise: Odds to be the first to officially report the Kawhi Leonard signing (Bovada):@Wojespn +125@ShamsCharania +200@TheSteinLine […]

The Los Angeles Clippers will likely fail in their bid to acquire Kawhi Leonard this summer, but the superstar forward might eventually find his way to the Clippers next summer. The Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly the frontrunners in the race to sign Leonard this summer. However, the Clippers might still […]

Could Kawhi Leonard end up staying in Toronto after all? ESPN’s Brian Windhorst seems to think so. Windhorst noted that Leonard had talked to Kevin Durant about teaming up this offseason, and the only place that could have happened was on the Los Angeles Clippers. He then added that things seem to be lining up […]

Cris Carter says Kawhi Leonard has yet to make his decision and that the two-time Finals MVP is still considering the Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers. Carter has been consistently plugged into Leonard’s camp. During his playing days in the NFL, Carter was represented by Mitch Frankel, who represents Leonard at […]

An anonymous NBA agent says Kawhi Leonard is re-signing with the Toronto Raptors, according to Mark Jones of ESPN. This comes right after ESPN’s Jalen Rose said he’s 99 percent sure Leonard is going back to Toronto. The prevailing thought is that Leonard will sign a short-term deal with the Raptors if he decides to […]

NBA analyst and former player Jalen Rose says he’s 99 percent sure Kawhi Leonard is signing a short-term deal with the Toronto Raptors. Rose was the first person to report last season that Leonard would never play for the San Antonio Spurs again. Not a lot of people believed Rose, but it turned out he […]

DeMarcus Cousins and JaVale McGee have generated little to no noise on the free-agent market, but it might not be because teams aren’t interested in them. According to Vincent Ellis of The Detroit Free Press, the feeling around the league is that both Cousins and McGee are waiting on the Los Angeles Lakers before making […]

A new piece of information in the Kawhi Leonard saga has emerged: Per Marc Stein of the New York Times, Leonard wants confirmation that Raptors president Masai Ujiri will stay in Toronto before he commits himself: This is why many league observers believe assurances from Masai Ujiri that he intends to stay with the Raptors […]

Kawhi Leonard is supposedly deciding either late Wednesday or on Thursday where he will be playing basketball next season, and no matter what decision he makes, it will set the NBA world ablaze. Either NBA fans will rejoice, or everyone outside of Jack Nicholson and the rest of Lakers nation will hate him for the […]

Kawhi Leonard may or may not be meeting with a contingent from the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday. Connecting the dots with the time-honored free agency tradition of flight-tracking, though, it certainly seems likely the reigning Finals MVP, at the very least, is in Toronto. As noted by Stephanie Smyth of Toronto’s CP24 News, the private […]

The NBA world is visibly in major suspense, now at a stalemate after doling out $3 billion in the first few hours of free agency. The remaining free agents are awaiting the domino effect that will come with Kawhi Leonard’s decision, one ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was told will come later on Wednesday or on 4th […]

Jared Dudley made a bold comparison when asked of the potential effect of Kawhi Leonard choosing to join the Los Angeles Lakers as his next destination. Dudley, who just agreed to a one-year, $2.6 million deal to join LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rest of the gang, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on The Woj […]

The Dallas Mavericks might benefit from the decision of Kawhi Leonard, who has yet to reveal his free-agency destination. According to Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer, the Mavs could acquire Danilo Gallinari if Leonard decides to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers. It is widely believed that Danny Green, who is also still on the […]