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NBA Finals 2013: The Kawhi Leonard lesson

In the 2010-11 season, the San Antonio Spurs won 61 games. Two months later, the Spurs went Cheap Nike Air Max LTD II and got a player who currently looks like the second-best player in the 2011 NBA Draft. This is not fair.

Kawhi Leonard entered the 2011 draft season emblematic of the class Cheap Nike Air Max LTD V writ large: he had pretty nice potential thanks to size and athleticism, but lacked enough skill to make him a definite NBA player. The Spurs saw something else: he was an impossibly hard worker eager to learn and open to coaching. So as Leonard mystifying fell down out of the lottery -- which even skeptics had to be surprised about -- the Spurs saw an opportunity to snag him. They sent George Hill to the Indiana Pacers for the No. Cheap Nike Air Max Skyline 15 pick in a deal that truly benefited both clubs.