By the time tonight’s game got to the fourth quarter, you knew you were watching something special. It just needed a punctuation mark. Then, with 3:30 left, Kawhi Leonard — with gargantuan Rudy Gobert switched on to him on the perimeter — muscled through the contact of a much larger human being, drove, contorted his body to the reverse side, and spun the ball against the grain to kiss it off the glass.
The degree of difficulty was off the charts, and it gave Kawhi Leonard his 40th point on the evening.