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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers legend and one of the greatest players of all time, reacted to LeBron James’ commitment to the purple and gold and at the same time, hinted that there might be more in store. Via his personal Twitter account, Abdul-Jabbar congratulated the Lakers organization — a team which he guided to […]

After the monumental signing of LeBron James, the Lakers are looking for another star to pair him with. Kawhi Leonard wants to fill that role. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, James’ signing has done nothing to change Leonard’s desire to land in Los Angeles. It’s hard to imagine why any player wouldn’t want to […]

The Los Angeles Lakers took their first loss of the summer after they were snubbed by Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Paul George. Now it appears their discussions with the San Antonio Spurs for small forward Kawhi Leonard are at a standstill. The Lakers and Spurs have been negotiating a potential deal for some time […]

It’s still unclear where Kawhi Leonard will be playing basketball next season and beyond. According to reports from ESPN’s Ian Begley, several people within the 76ers organization feel that Philadelphia can hold onto the superstar long-term if they trade for him. Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News confirmed that Leonard would entertain the possibility […]

The L.A. Clippers will shift their focus to the 2019 offseason, hoping to free up enough cap space to lure soon-to-be free agent forward Kawhi Leonard, making it a “high offseason priority” according to ESPN’s Chris Haynes. The Clippers could be serious contenders for his services, given that the Los Angeles Lakers have not been […]

Heading into free agency time in the NBA, one of the unresolved issues remaining is that of the San Antonio Spurs and Kawhi Leonard. Leonard is not a free agent yet (that will happen next season) but he might as well be. He has the Spurs at his fingertips despite the organization still holding the […]

With Kawhi Leonard requesting a trade, teams are quickly arranging possible packages in exchange for the San Antonio Spurs’ defensive stalwart. Rumor has it that the Philadelphia 76ers are pretty hungry for Leonard. Speaking on the Dan Patrick Show, Marc Stein of the New York Times said that the Spurs are ready to move on […]

San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker appears to be among the biggest culprits of Kawhi Leonard’s chagrin, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (h/t Rob Lopez of Def Pen Sports). Woj: The 'last straw' for Kawhi Leonard were Tony Parker's comments about Leonard's injury. Lowe confirms he also heard the same thing. pic.twitter.com/G7qBYQT6ZJ — […]

There seems to be virtually no chance that the San Antonio Spurs and superstar forward Kawhi Leonard will be able to settle their differences. Leonard has made it known that he wants to get traded and the Spurs have also expressed their disinterest in continuing their professional relationship with the disgruntled former San Diego Aztec. […]

The trade chatter around San Antonio Spurs All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard has picked up once again just days ahead of the start of the NBA free agency period. This has seen various reports with the Los Angeles Lakers being one of the primary teams leading the charge towards working out a deal to pry Leonard away […]

Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard is celebrating his 27th birthday today, but he has a lot of questions facing him going into this next season, the most pressing being exactly whose team is he going to be on. His current team, the San Antonio Spurs wished Leonard a Happy Birthday earlier Friday, which is a bit awkward […]

The Boston Celtics have been rumored to be trying to acquire Kawhi Leonard from the San Antonio Spurs, but it might be hard to do with the Celtics not willing to give up some of their young stars. According to Steve Bullpet of the Boston Herald, as nice as it would be to get Leonard, the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are not only fighting against the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign their prized free agent LeBron James, but also acting with utmost desperation, knowing what could come down the pipe if San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard hasn’t been acquired this offseason. ESPN’s Steven A. Smith said on First Take that the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are supposedly shopping Lonzo Ball for assets to use in a trade with the San Antonio Spurs to land Kawhi Leonard. How do we know this? The mean streets of Twitter told us such a wonderful thing. https://twitter.com/OrtizDYST/status/1012714505070108672 This should certainly be taken as much as a rumor as it is […]

Kawhi Leonard is largely seen as the single asset that could “clinch” a LeBron James departure to the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason. Yet, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, the two superstars have yet to exchange words this summer regarding a potential partnership. via RealGM: “As for Kawhi, I have been assured very strongly that […]

The San Antonio Spurs are not used to NOT winning. They are a franchise that has made the playoffs in each season since 1997-98 and won at least 50 games in all but one campaign during that two-decade stretch. Unlike most other teams, a full-blown rebuild process is an alien concept to the Spurs. At […]

When it comes to Lonzo Ball, the San Antonio Spurs’ interest in him seems to be comparable to the level of attention the public is giving to LaVar Ball’s JBA league. The Los Angeles Lakers are in determined pursuit of Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard, but convincing San Antonio to give up the talented swingman is […]

The Kyrie Irving era in Beantown might only be comprised of one ephemeral season. That’s not as unlikely to happen as what most people believe if the Boston Celtics truly want to bring in to their fold embattled San Antonio Spurs superstar Kawhi Leonard. According to Jake Fischer of Sports Illustrated, while the Spurs have […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have ramped up their efforts in the last couple of days towards working a deal out with the San Antonio Spurs for All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard. However, that was met with the Spurs putting a high asking price on Leonard in order for a trade to be feasible. In response to […]

Things have steadily picked up over the few weeks for the San Antonio Spurs regarding All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard’s future with the franchise. It has become quite clear that he has a strong desire to move on elsewhere due to how things have unfolded over this past season involving his quad injury. Throughout the process, the […]

Kawhi Leonard playing with LeBron James is not a scenario many in NBA circles thought they would ever witness. But according to Jordan Schultz of Yahoo Sports, Leonard reached out to James to discuss his desire for this exact scenario. The source told Schultz that Leonard highlighted his own defensive prowess as a way to […]

According to new reports, the Boston Celtics are not using Jaylen Brown as a piece in trade talks for Kawhi Leonard with the San Antonio Spurs. How do we know this? Well, I am glad you asked. It comes by way of this report: Hearing Jaylen Brown has NOT been discussed in any potential deal […]

The Boston Celtics have yet to get any assurance or sense of indication that San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard would be willing to stay in Boston if traded there, according to Mark Murphy of The Boston Herald. The Celtics front office is doing its due diligence by exploring a potential trade for Leonard, but […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly willing to send Brandon Ingram to the San Antonio Spurs for Kawhi Leonard as part of their Godfather offer. This news comes by way of ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who also notes a future first-round selection is in the mix. From Woj’s ESPN report: The Lakers are willing to include former […]

The Boston Celtics entered this season with high expectations. They traded Isaiah Thomas for Kyrie Irving. Gordon Hayward was the shiny-yet-familiar new toy brought in to raise the ceiling. Add solid depth, intriguing young pieces, and an elite coach, and many expected Boston to eclipse 50 wins with room for more growth. Not even 10 […]

The Los Angeles Lakers will have to go balls-to-the-wall with an offer too hard for the San Antonio Spurs to resist, if they hope to land their prized star, Kawhi Leonard. Yet rumblings of the purple-and-gold having a “Godfather offer” has rival teams wondering if they have what it takes to compete with them in […]

The Boston Celtics are one of the two main teams taking their best shot at trading for Kawhi Leonard, after reports of the San Antonio Spurs being “fully engaged” with several teams in potentially making a deal for him. Though the front office is wary of plenty of things — among them, his desire to […]

Gregg Popovich met with Kawhi Leonard just over a week in hopes that the San Antonio Spurs and Leonard could get on the same page and that the relationship could be repaired. How the meeting went is a mystery and nothing really came away from it good or bad. Now it appears that the meeting […]

The San Antonio Spurs are now reportedly ready to move on from Kawhi Leonard and fully engaging several teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics in trade talks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Spurs are at an exploratory point at this moment, after being hellbent in hopes to repair the relationship […]

Free agency doesn’t start until July 1st, and that is when all the big offseason moves are supposed to be taking place, but it looks like the offseason madness could be starting a few days early. Tim Tompkins of Suns Solar Panel reports on Twitter that there is going to be a big trade coming […]

In the midst of a huge potential trade in the works between the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs, reports of a potential disconnect between Kawhi Leonard and his reported preferred destination have emerged. ESPN’s Steven A. Smith said during his radio show that the atmosphere surrounding the Lakers’ Showtime-rebirth aspirations could be […]

With the Warriors anticlimactic sweep in the NBA Finals and Alexander Ovechkin finally lifting the Stanley Cup, the period of lull in three out of four major US sports inevitably began. The American sports fans are now slowly winding down from a season filled with excitement, but things are just getting heated up at the […]

Kawhi Leonard has entered the LeBron James free agency drama. According to rumors, the current San Antonio Spurs forward will be key whether or not the Cavs star joins the Los Angeles Lakers or not. Per Ramona Shelburne, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Brian Windhorst of ESPN: The stakes on these talks are enormous, because a deal for […]

When Kawhi Leonard requested for a trade, he made it clear that he wants to go the Los Angeles Lakers. But given the Paul George and LeBron James drama, the other team in LA seem to be creeping in on Leonard. Basketball pundit Stephen A. Smith said that the Clippers intend to move some pieces […]

Despite the San Antonio Spurs showing barely any interest in trading disgruntled forward Kawhi Leonard to the Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson and company are not letting that cold treatment stop them from trying to extricate the superstar from San Antonio. In fact, the Lakers have contacted San Antonio again on Wednesday after initially getting […]

The Boston Celtics have a desire to acquire embattled San Antonio Spurs superstar Kawhi Leonard via a trade, but such a transaction seems to be highly unlikely as of the moment. According to a source of The Boston Herald’s Steve Bulpett, the Celtics have contacted San Antonio, but the conversation did not bear any fruitful […]

The rift between the San Antonio Spurs and Kawhi Leonard has apparently come to the brink, as the star forward reportedly does not want to step foot in the Spurs’ locker room again, according to ESPN international announcer Alvaro Martin. The Spurs remain adamant that no team will force them into a trade before this […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ time is ticking, with only two days left to get a deal done with the San Antonio Spurs for their estranged star Kawhi Leonard. Leonard is viewed as the key piece in the balance for luring LeBron James in free agency, but the cost of making that trade would be to […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have insurmountable pressure ahead of this free agency period, now counting with only two days to find a way to acquire Kawhi Leonard before LeBron James makes his impending free agent decision, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Brian Windhorst, and Ramona Shelburne. James will have to make his decision to opt […]