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Raptors Acquire Leonard in Exchange for Ingram, Dick and Draft Picks
The Toronto Raptors traded Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick and multiple draft selections to acquire Kawhi Leonard. The deal sends Leonard to Toronto for his final season before free agency.
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The transaction repeats a strategy the Raptors used eight years earlier when they obtained Leonard by sending DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and draft assets to the San Antonio Spurs.
Leonard, 34, averaged a career-high 27.9 points per game last season while posting a top-five steal rate. He has made 40.5 percent of his three-point attempts since returning from a 2021-22 ACL injury. Over the past four seasons Leonard has appeared in 67.7 percent of regular-season games and played four of a possible 11 playoff contests in 2023 and 2024.
The Raptors finished the prior season as a strong regular-season club that lacked postseason success. Officials said the addition of Leonard is intended to raise the team's offensive ceiling. Leonard produced double-digit positive on/off differentials in each of his seasons with the Clippers, according to Cleaning the Glass data cited by ESPN.
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