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Lonnie Walker is joining one of the most successful franchises in the NBA and it appears he had an awkward interaction with one of the organization’s most iconic players. In a tweet, Walker said that he embarrassed himself when he met the legend himself, Tim Duncan. I really just met Tim Duncan and I think […]

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 […]

The NBA is full of surprises. Any player can be traded, waived or bought out at any given time. Last week, the Charlotte Hornets traded Dwight Howard to the Brooklyn Nets for Timofey Mozgov, two future second-round picks and cash. According to USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick, Howard and the Nets will be reaching a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

The year is 2021. Victor Oladipo, now a perennial All-Star, dribbles right, hesitates for a fleeting moment, then zips left. Back right. Now left again, burrowing his head for added vigor. Dejounte Murray mirrors every step, stonewalls Oladipo and picks his pocket clean. On the other end, Lonnie Walker IV snares the feed from his […]

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 […]

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 […]

While the San Antonio Spurs are getting bugged by other teams persuading them to trade Kawhi Leonard, they also have to attend to other offseason priorities involving some players with expiring contracts. Among them is big man Davis Bertans, who received a qualifying offer from the Spurs, thus making the Latvian a restricted free agent, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics are two of teams reportedly with the highest interest in trading for San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard. However, neither of the two has yet to make a significant step towards acquiring Leonard. While the Spurs have rejected the Lakers before, Magic Johnson and company have remained […]

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 […]

Becky Hammon continues to break through the glass ceiling of professional sports. The Spurs assistant is receiving a promotion to the front of the bench on Gregg Popovich’s staff per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. She will replace longtime Spurs assistant James Borrego who recently took over the reins as head coach of the Charlotte Hornets. This […]

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 […]

It was supposed to be the ideal pairing of two of the best forwards in the NBA. There was no doubt that the two would terrorize the league for years to come. The San Antonio Spurs have previously been reported as one of the teams LeBron James is interested in going to, teaming up with […]

The saga continues. Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs always seemed like a match made in heaven. But recently there’s no secret that there’s trouble in paradise. Leonard sat out most of the 2017-18 season with a mysterious quad injury and many outside observers wondered why it was taking Leonard so long to return. […]

Things have once again taken another twist for the San Antonio Spurs with Kawhi Leonard making it clear to the organization that he wants to be traded. This has immediately put both Los Angeles teams on the map with Leonard voicing that he wants to be moved to his hometown. However, NBA veteran reporter Peter […]

Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs have a few issues to sort out this summer, and the big question is will both sides be able to come together. Head coach Gregg Popovich and Leonard met last week, but Peter Vecsey doesn’t think it matters because Leonard has already emotionally checked out. “Emotionally, Kawhi has […]

It has been a couple weeks since Kawhi Leonard requested a trade from the San Antonio Spurs, and with every passing day the picture seems to get clearer about where he could end up. The BetDSI Sportsbook released a future on where Leonard is going to end up, with a couple of surprising odds. The […]

One of the big storylines this summer to watch across the NBA is exactly what is going to happen with Kawhi Leonard. Will the San Antonio Spurs and Leonard be able to work out their differences and will the Spurs decide it’s time to move on and trade him? Paul Gasol who has been with […]

Nine-year veteran Danny Green has opted into his $10 million option for the 2018-2019 season with the San Antonio Spurs. As reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Green will enter his 10th year in the league in a Spurs uniform. San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green has exercised his $10M contract option for the 2018-19 season […]

News broke back in May that superstar power forward/center Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves are “not in a good place internally.” This was reported by ESPN’s Zach Lowe on The Lowe Post. His colleague Brian Windhorst asked Lowe to share his thoughts on Towns and the Timberwolves. Here is what Lowe said via Hoops Hype’s […]

NBA Players have had some wild conspiracies over time. Kyrie Irving opened up a lot of eyes when he said that the world was flat, but San Antonio Spurs draft pick Lonnie Walker IV has topped that. Talking with Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated, Walker opened up about how he believed everyone at one point […]

Kawhi Leonard made it clear this offseason that he wants a trade from the San Antonio Spurs. But the Spurs get to pick where he goes. It looks as if the Spurs want to keep with Gregg Popovich’s philosophy of avoiding trading assets within the Western Conference. In this piece, explored the Kawhi situation a […]

The San Antonio Spurs will have the utmost diligence dealing with a touchy situation with their disgruntled star, Kawhi Leonard. General manager R.C. Buford offered that while the team remains intent in finding a solution and keeping him as a Spur, the front office will leave to peg unturned. “Kawhi and his family mean a […]

Things have taken yet another turn for the San Antonio Spurs regarding Kawhi Leonard’s future with the franchise after reportedly requesting a trade this summer. This latest development has had another former longtime Spur Bruce Bowen has weighed in on the situation where he isn’t holding back his feelings about what has unfolded over the […]

The 2018 NBA Draft is under way and this year’s class is as electric as any other in recent memory. Follow along as the results for each team are announced today, with every team taking another step toward their future. Phoenix Suns: DeAndre Ayton — C (Arizona)A double-double machine with plenty of untapped potential, despite posting […]

The Admiral is ordering Kawhi Leonard on deck right now. We’re talking about former San Antonio Spurs superstar and basketball Hall of Famer David Robinson, who gave his thoughts about the current saga engulfing the Spurs in relation to Leonard’s intent to part ways with the team. In a recent appearance on ESPN’s Get Up!, […]

Danny Green looks like he will be returning to San Antonio for the 2018-19 season. League sources tell Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News that Green will choose to opt-in to the final year of his contract worth $10 million. Green has spent eight years of his nine-year career in San Antonio where he […]

According to a report from Yahoo’s Shams Charania, the Los Angeles Lakers can now be counted among the teams who have openly expressed interest to the San Antonio Spurs about acquiring forward Kawhi Leonard. The Los Angeles Lakers have reached out to the San Antonio Spurs to express interest in All-Star Kawhi Leonard, league sources […]