When the Toronto Raptors traded for Kawhi Leonard last summer, they were making the kind of calculated risk that most professional sports teams prefer to avoid. Leonard was a superstar player entering the prime of his career, but he was also an enigma coming off an injury with one year left on his contract. The Raptors had every incentive to devise a plan that would shift the odds of such an enormous bet in their favor. They landed on a radical strategy that may also be a peek into the NBA’s future: Kawhi Leonard played in...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2019 13:30 UTC