Kawhi Leonard already has a ring, a NBA Finals MVP and a Defensive Player of the Year award. And he’s only 23. Not that he deserved the DPOY but hey. He’s one of three players in NBA History to have those three awards. And that’s something.
Kawhi’s contract with the San Antonio Spurs will end after this season. But according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. He has no plans of testing the free agent waters.
Leonard is a Southern California kid content with life in South Texas, with no desire to chase fame in a big market. He wants to chase championships and understands sooner than later he’ll need a supporting cast of his own.
For now, there’s no scenario where Leonard plans to pursue offer sheets on the market, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Leonard wants to be a Spur, and the Spurs are expected to come calling on July 1 with the max offer that they resisted delivering Leonard in the preseason, a move born out of preserving cap space to bring on a star free agent this summer.
Kawhi is quiet but a real deadly player. One of the best two-way players in the game today. From the looks of it. It’ll be near impossible to get him out of San Antonio.
