Welcome to the 2017-18 season player reviews, where we will be rehashing the performance of all 15 Spurs from this season (excluding two-way players Darrun Hilliard and Matt Costello) and looking towards the future. If you’ve missed any you can click here to catch up. Up next:
2017-18 stats: 16.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 2.0 steals
2017-18 salary: $18.9 million
Contract: 2 years, $41.4 million remaining (2019-20 player option)
It’s odd times when you can barely remember your MVP playing, but that’s where we are. Leonard missed the first two months of the season with what was diagnosed as quadriceps tendinopathy, returned in December only to appear in nine games over a 17-game span, and then shut himself back down as the pain in his quad persisted.