The Los Angeles Lakers used to seem like a near shoe-in destination for Kawhi Leonard, but since he was traded to the Toronto Raptors and the Lakers added LeBron James, such an outcome has started to seem less likely.
Jalen Rose isn’t normally known for NBA news breaking, but he recently all-but-guaranteed that Leonard won’t be a Laker, which is notable given that he said that Leonard’s relationship with the Spurs was broken before others did.
That’s hardly a guarantee he’ll be right again, but when informed of what Rose during an appearance on “Mason and Ireland” on ESPN Radio, Ramona Shelburne said she’s “heard a lot of different things” about where Leonard will end up, but that if he ends up on the Lakers, it won’t be for sentimental or nostalgic reasons:
“When we checked on that back in July, we were told no that’s (Kawhi preferring the Lakers to the Clippers) not accurate, that’s what the Spurs think but he really does want to be a Laker, but this was before the trade to Toronto.