Take your hands off the ESPN Trade Machine. Step back from speculation. Stay calm.
Kawhi Leonard, the Spurs all-everything forward, may be available — may be — after missing all but nine games this season, much of it spend rehabbing from quadriceps injury in Manhattan rather than on the bench with the Spurs. It’s a big reason why San Antonio had his worst year in more than a decade and just suffered a first round exit.
It appears that Most Outstanding Player of 2014 NBA Finals and the Spurs have had a dispute about how ready he was to play with Leonard trusting his own medical team over the Spurs.