Shams Charania
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3,469 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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This started all the way back in February at the deadline.
There were multiple teams like the Warriors and others that were discussing deals with the Clippers.
No deal happens.
So then you fast forward into this offseason, the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, they've been talking about their future.
There was no contract extension that was going to be offered to Kawhi Leonard going into this offseason.
So both sides kind of looked at it like, OK, what do we do here?
You're not going to go into a year
with a guy like kawaii leonard two-time champion two-time finals mvp last year of his deal and not have an extension he's going to be looking on elsewhere the clippers are going to see what else is out there for them so that's when these sides looked at toronto because kawaii leonard made it clear that he would give a contract extension he would commit long term to toronto so these two teams negotiated for a period of about two two and a half weeks in june on a deal the
Both sides didn't really have any type of restriction.
No team, neither the team was really reached out to by the NBA during that initial negotiation period, from my understanding.
And now there was a deal that was completed on June 30th, agreed to in principle, and the sides went to do a trade call on July 6th.
That's the first day after the NBA moratorium is lifted where you can discuss or have a trade call to complete a deal.
Well, they go to do the trade call.
And the league says, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Can't go through with this until basically the investigation is complete.
Because if you do, the Raptors would assume all the risk of any potential discipline that comes from this.
That's not saying that Kawhi Leonard will be disciplined, but that's basically a pre-warning that if you do go through with it, and if in a month or two months from now, Kawhi Leonard is given a 30-game suspension or is voided of his contract...
or anything, the Raptors are going to have to deal with the consequences.
Well, listen, the Raptors are obviously like, well, listen, if that's the case, we're not really comfortable moving forward with this.
So the deal gets paused, and now Adam Silver made some comments that they're hoping to have some kind of a resolution this...
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