Kawhi Leonard provided Toronto Raptors fans with incalculable joy in the run to the team’s first NBA championship. And that has to have earned him the right to cause them a few days of anxiety now.
One of the wackiest days in franchise history — helicopters chasing cars, flights being tracked, duelling ex-professional athletes assuring all and sundry they had inside information even as it contradicted each other — ended as it began Wednesday. With Leonard’s future still undecided.
The Raptors, as had been expected since before NBA free agency began, got to make the last pitch to the all-star forward before he decides where he will be when training camps open in September.