This is the second part of a two-part series. Read the first part, “What Kawhi Leonard’s Free Agency Taught Us About Privacy,” here. Kawhi Leonard’s 2019 Free Agency was unlike anything the NBA has seen before. The 28-year-old superstar who just led the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA championship elected not to return to…
Amidst the daily rumour mill churning out increasingly nonsensical stories, cameras snapping shots of Kawhi Leonard doing the most mundane errands, and eventually helicopters tracking SUVs Cops-style, KawhiWatch superseded sports and evolved into a full-blown reality television program. It consumed our worlds for seven painstakingly long days. Now that is all over. Call me old…
The Raptors organization must make a tough but necessary move regarding the talismanic, Kyle Lowry.
Kawhi Leonard’s 2019 Free Agency was unlike anything the NBA has seen before. The 28-year-old superstar who just led the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA championship elected not to return to the Raptors, instead choosing to play for his hometown Los Angeles Clippers alongside First Team All-NBA forward Paul George. And while Leonard’s choice…
This was always an accident. A very happy accident. A great one, even. But an accident nonetheless. It was an accident when Masai Ujiri traded away Rudy Gay, thinking he was headed for a rebuild, and the team got better. It was an accident when Masai negotiated a Kyle Lowry trade, thinking that it was…
With Kawhi Leonard gone, what's Masai Ujiri thinking next?
It’s difficult to say when exactly the switch flipped for Pascal Siakam. It may’ve happened at some point last summer when he religiously attended Rico Hines’ pick up games at UCLA, garnering praise from some of the game’s elite. Or maybe it came when Siakam averaged a team-high 20.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, shot .724 (21-for-29)…
As an obsessive individual that needs all my ducks in a row in order to quell those looming spells of anxiety, waiting can be damn hard. Painstakingly so. The moment that something falls out of your hands and you have to rely on others, doubt begins to creep in. Maybe I’m a perpetual pessimist, but…
There will be three head coaches making their NBA debut next season with Taylor Jenkins in Memphis, John Beilein in Cleveland, and Ryan Saunders in Minnesota (who shed the “interim” label and is now officially the head coach); three more coaches will be joining new teams next season with Frank Vogul in Los Angeles, Luke…
It was difficult to know what had just happened on July 18 when Kawhi Leonard and fellow Spur Danny Green were traded to the Toronto Raptors for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl, and draft considerations. The Raptors had traded their longest-tenured player, their leader, and seemingly their soul to the Spurs. After the Raptors had treated…
