Injured superstar signs monster $240m deal

(All figures successful AUD)

Kawhi Leonard is staying successful Los Angeles aft the Clippers re-signed their free-agent superstar connected a four-year $240 cardinal deal.

Leonard averaged 26 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5 assists successful his archetypal 2 seasons with his hometown team.

He suffered a partially torn close ACL during the playoffs and missed the Clippers' archetypal Western Conference finals appearance. Leonard had country connected his genu a period ago. The squad has said there's nary timetable for his return, and it's imaginable helium could miss a bully information of the upcoming play portion rehabbing.

Leonard declined his $49 cardinal enactment past week, mounting up his quality to motion a maximum declaration worthy 35 percent of the team's wage headdress and allowing him to gain upwards of $4 cardinal much for the 2021-22 season.

Kawhi Leonard has been impacted by wounded successful caller seasons. (Getty)

By re-signing Leonard, the Clippers are guaranteed to person him and Paul George successful the fold for the adjacent fewer seasons. George signed a maximum declaration hold past December. Leonard is from adjacent Moreno Valley, and Paul is from Palmdale, northbound of Los Angeles.

The five-time All-Star averaged 24.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and a career-high 5.2 assists past season, portion shooting 51 percent from the tract and 88 percent from the line. He was named to his seventh All-Defensive squad and his 3rd All-NBA archetypal squad past season.

Leonard was adjacent amended successful the postseason. He averaged 30.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 4.4 assists successful 11 games. He archetypal got injured successful Game 4 of the Clippers' second-round bid against the Utah Jazz. He was held retired of the past 8 postseason games, including the Clippers' 4-2 nonaccomplishment to the Phoenix Suns successful the West finals.

He inactive had a beingness astir the team, contempt being incapable to play.

"Kawhi is simply a transcendent subordinate and a relentless idiosyncratic who improves himself each day," said Lawrence Frank, president of hoops operations. "We stock galore of the aforesaid goals, which see a semipermanent relationship."

Frank said the Clippers volition "do immoderate we can" to enactment Leonard successful his wounded rehab.

"We look guardant to seeing him backmost wherever helium wants to be, connected the tribunal with his teammates," Frank said.

Leonard joined George, Reggie Jackson, Terance Mann and Luke Kennard courtside to ticker the Clippers' rookies successful the NBA Summer League successful Las Vegas this week. Leonard wasn't wearing a brace connected his close leg.

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