Kawhi Leonard, Clippers Partnership Ends How it Started
Three playoff series wins.
The LA Clippers got absolutely destroyed. Seven years after trading five first-round picks to give Kawhi Leonard the co-star of his choice, the team officially ends this era by forfeiting five more first-rounders as the result of a salary cap circumvention scandal.
Those 10 first-round picks bookend a seven-year relationship with Leonard that produced three playoff series wins. Which understandably has raised the question, "You cheated for this?"
But the core of this story was never about cheating. From day one, this partnership was built on a foundation of fear and leverage.
