Things are getting weird.
Just a day before the official start of free agency around dinner time on Sunday, Kawhi Leonard conjecture is on a wave. All season long, “two-team race” has been the term of choice for most source-havers when summing up the Leonard pursuit. Any other suitors have been painted as pretenders.
Of course, things change fast in this beautifully dumb league. In the two days since the Lakers figured out their self-imposed salary cap hell and opened a max salary slot by trading three humps, the Leonard-to-Lakers noise has gone from a joke to something slightly more real.