After their Game 4 win over the Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry compared Kawhi Leonard's dominance to a former teammate of his — Yao Ming.
In Game 4, Leonard scored a game-high 39 points on 13-of-20 shooting from the field and 5-of-7 from downtown. He also snagged 14 rebounds and had five assists. After the game, Lowry shared that Leonard's performance was reminiscent of Yao Ming — Lowry's teammate back when he was with the Houston Rockets.
“Kawhi is dominant, just dominant,” Raptors guard Kyle Lowry told Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com. “I've only played with one other guy like that, Yao Ming, where when he got it rolling, you can't stop him. Kawhi has been doing this for a month.”
Leonard has already six 30-point games in the 2019 postseason, breaking the Raptors' franchise for the most of such game in a single playoffs. In their playoff series with the Sixers, he already registered 150 points, 30 rebounds and 15 assists — making him just the fifth player to accomplish such feat in the first four games of a postseason matchup.
The three-time All-Star has been doing this amid playoff-level type of defense. In their series with the Sixers, he's been matched up with either Ben Simmons or Jimmy Butler — the club's best defenders. In Game 4, the former Finals MVP saw multiple bodies thrown at him, but he still found a way to counter it by drawing the foul by way of his arsenal of offensive moves.
Kyle Lowry undoubtedly sees Kawhi Leonard in another level, and comparing him to Yao Ming proves just that.
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