When the Spurs traded Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors in 2018, DeMar DeRozan was the big name they got back for him, along with a soon-to-be third-year center and what would become the 29th overall pick in the 2019 Draft. It wasn’t overly flashy at the time, and to this day, some pundits — in this case John Hollinger and Nate Duncan of the Hollinger & Duncan podcast— still claim the Spurs could have done better or should have taken things in a different directection to avoid becoming the middling team they are today (beginning at the 32:30 mark).
Jakob Poeltl is becoming one of the NBA’s most underrated players
