When the Toronto Raptors traded for Kawhi Leonard over five years ago, the addition of Danny Green was first seen as a ‘throw-in’ to the deal. Green was the salary filler that made the math work and rotation piece that evened out the talent and balanced San Antonio’s package of DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl (and eventually Keldon Johnson). Kawhi was the main entree while Danny was the fortune cookie at the end.
We all know how that turned out. Yes, Kawhi was still everything promised and more, but a championship would have been much harder to achieve without Danny’s contributions — namely his 6 three-pointers in Game 3 of the Finals to help Toronto regain home-court advantage.