Nicknamed the " Claw", or " Klaw", for his ball-hawking skills, he has earned seven All-Defensive Team selections and won Defensive Player of the Year honors in 20. Leonard is a five-time All-Star with three All-NBA First Team selections.
He subsequently moved to his hometown of Los Angeles and signed with the Clippers as a free agent in July 2019. In 2019, he led the Raptors to their first NBA championship in franchise history and won his second Finals MVP award (one of only three players to win Finals MVP with multiple teams, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James). After seven seasons with the Spurs, Leonard was traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2018. With the Spurs, Leonard won an NBA championship in 2014, where he was named the Finals Most Valuable Player. He was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th overall pick before being traded to the San Antonio Spurs on draft night. Leonard opted to forgo his final two seasons at San Diego State to enter the 2011 NBA draft. He played two seasons of college basketball for the San Diego State Aztecs and was named a consensus second-team All-American as a sophomore.
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Kawhi Anthony Leonard ( / k ə ˈ w aɪ/, born June 29, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
3× NBA All-Defensive First Team ( 2015– 2017).2× NBA Defensive Player of the Year ( 2015, 2016).