You can’t even be angry, not really. You can be crushed. Kawhi Leonard delivered so much to Toronto in a year, a civic eruption of joy and community and celebratory murals splashed across the face of the city. He came here and played at astonishing levels and delivered a championship. He made Toronto come alive.
And now he is leaving, and it is almost impossible to blame him. So many stars have left Toronto over the years, but Kawhi wasn’t leaving the Raptors because they weren’t good enough. They were. They were champions.
On Saturday morning, in the kind of bombshell only the NBA delivers, Kawhi Leonard agreed to sign a four-year, $142 million (U.