Kawhi’s Return
Jul 1, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
**Seven years after bringing Toronto its first NBA championship, Kawhi Leonard is back.** **In this episode of Real Ones and Robots, host Casey is joined by AI co-host Jay to unpack one of the…
Jul 1, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
**Seven years after bringing Toronto its first NBA championship, Kawhi Leonard is back.** **In this episode of Real Ones and Robots, host Casey is joined by AI co-host Jay to unpack one of the…
Segment one, where we left off, the 2019 championship.
Let's rewind to the summer of 2018.
They trade away their all-time leading scorer, DeMar DeRozan, along with Jakob Paltol, and a first-round pick to San Antonio for one guy, Kawhi Leonard plus Danny Green, a beloved franchise cornerstone for a rental.
That's a gutsy move.
Leonard had one year left on his deal and had just come off a season where injury politics with the Spurs got so ugly, it basically forced the trade.
So what did that team
look like?
That trade ends up being huge for playoff spacing.
Fred Van Vliet anchors the bench.
And the record? 58-24, second seed in the East, then the playoff run.
That's the game with the shot, the one that bounces four times on the rim before it drops.
Six games over Milwaukee in the conference finals, and six games over a battered, injury-riddled Golden State team in the finals.
First championship in franchise history.
Regular season, 26.6 points, 7.3 rebounds a game.
Segment one, where we left off, the 2019 championship.
Let's rewind to the summer of 2018.
They trade away their all-time leading scorer, DeMar DeRozan, along with Jakob Paltol, and a first-round pick to San Antonio for one guy, Kawhi Leonard plus Danny Green, a beloved franchise cornerstone for a rental.
That's a gutsy move.
Leonard had one year left on his deal and had just come off a season where injury politics with the Spurs got so ugly, it basically forced the trade.
So what did that team
look like?
That trade ends up being huge for playoff spacing.
Fred Van Vliet anchors the bench.
And the record? 58-24, second seed in the East, then the playoff run.
That's the game with the shot, the one that bounces four times on the rim before it drops.
Six games over Milwaukee in the conference finals, and six games over a battered, injury-riddled Golden State team in the finals.
First championship in franchise history.
Regular season, 26.6 points, 7.3 rebounds a game.
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