NBA Trade Rumors: Should the San Antonio Spurs Deal Kawhi Leonard This Summer?

ESPN's Brian Windhorst recently reported that some NBA teams are going to inquire about Leonard at the end of this season

By John Paul Sunico, Christian Post Contributor

The biggest surprise of this NBA regular season isn't the Cleveland Cavaliers going through a midseason makeover or Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid remaining mostly healthy and elevating his level of play. No, the real surprise of this NBA season has been Kawhi Leonard missing most of the year for the San Antonio Spurs.

To be clear, it was expected that Leonard would be out of action for at least some portion of the season, but no one thought he would only be available for such a short period of time — currently, he's tallied 210 total minutes played across nine games, per Basketball Reference — for the Spurs.

Now, there's obviously still a chance that he will come back for the playoffs and resume starring for the Spurs, but the fact that his availability still remains uncertain at this point is certainly not a good thing for the franchise.

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This situation with Leonard has now lingered on for so long that there are real questions being asked over whether the Spurs will hang on to the 26-year-old forward.

Some NBA teams may even be getting ready to pounce on this situation in the hopes of landing a potential franchise star.

Speaking recently to "Outside the Lines," ESPN's Brian Windhorst shared that at the end of this season, there will be NBA teams placing calls to the Spurs and asking about Leonard.