The View from San Antonio: Spurs give up the superstar they built

SAN ANTONIO—The shame in this, if there is any, is the loss of what Kawhi Leonard should have meant here, yesterday, today and forever. His name is cursed now, and he brought that upon himself, but there is a world in which his rise stands as one of the proudest, most Spursian achievements of all time.

Other superstars either were discovered by the Spurs, or were bestowed upon them.

Leonard was the one they made.

David Robinson and Tim Duncan would have been great anywhere.