For a few days last summer after professional basketball teams managed to blow a few billion dollars in a matter of hours, the NBA abruptly stopped.
The barrage of deals in the free hand slowed to a trickle as the entire league waited for a withdrawn superstar to make up their minds. Kawhi Leonard won a title with the Toronto Raptors and for the first time in his career he was a free agent with the right to play wherever he wanted. The fate of the NBA depended on his decision.
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