How Nick Nurse knew Kawhi Leonard was leaving Toronto Raptors for Clippers | Draymond Green Show

How Nick Nurse knew Kawhi Leonard was leaving Toronto Raptors for Clippers | Draymond Green Show

welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel hit subscribe so you don’t miss out on any of our content started off season and all of a sudden you know going 2018 2019 season uh get the opportunity to get Kawai Leonard um how big was that what was that like coaching him obviously didn’t get to coach him for sure as long as you would have but what was it like uh getting Kawai him coming in and kind of taking the franchise up a level yeah I mean I mean you know Kawai first of all he’s awesome um I I loved his just competitiveness his drive his smarts uh everything but but you know uh what he did probably more than anything Draymond was he just kind of Rose the level of of everything right he just he got he just everybody play a little bit better everybody believed a little bit more um all those kind of things with his presence and uh he was awesome to coach I think that um my most fascinating things with him were you know when I’d be in the fourth quarter and things and I’d be like you know like nine minutes to go and I’d be like let’s go you got to get back in there and he’d be he’d be like I’m not quite ready yet I be like I like well we better hustle because there may not may not be anything to wait for but you know he he knew about the six minute Mark six and a half he’d go back in but he knew and he just dominate he just made every play at both ends every tough rebound like he he really knew what he kind of had in the tank and what he could provide and I I kind of uh I just admired that about him because he really would go make you know plays at both ends that were just you know that’s that’s what I love guys making plays at both ends and they were just huge plays you know absolutely absolutely I think it’s incredible obviously we were on the wrong side of it I I must say I was absolutely shocked and you know I know he’s an LA guy or San Diego Southern California guy wanted to get back closer to home but that may be the only player in the NBA that can win a championship with a team probably get offered the entire country of Canada and leave and go back to the Clippers like I can’t can you I can’t think of any other guy in the NBA that would turn that down as a 12-year NBA veteran recovery is very important to me as I continue to get a little older the body just doesn’t bounce back the way it used to so I’m a big fan of hyper ice especially their normat Tech boots what’s great about the new normat tech Elite is that they dished all the extra hoses and control units from the old model this one is fully self-contained with a small set of buttons to select your compression level super easy to travel with and to get set up after a hard workout or a big game on top of that the normat tech Elite packs 4 hours of battery life that’s enough juice to get full Le compression Cycles in before games after games and even on the plane and don’t get me started on the tech inside this thing hyper ice has been pioneering recovery science for 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to play to win I’m going to play to win at all and they said he said I’m going to do it for one year after that he goes I’m not sure what’s gonna happen right but but for one year I’m gonna play I’m gonna play 100% And I’m gonna play to win the title and I was kind of like that’s a pretty good deal let’s let’s start with that right so I wasn’t totally shocked but I thought after we kind of done it all and did you know all that stuff like you just said kind of rolled out I was sure hoping he was going to stay because that was a really really good team it really was you know in the end it was a really really well put together team and really had great chemistry you know you’ve been a part of them and those things are special 1,00% special I think um I think for me and watching that team come like even when I when I look back on that team and I know a lot of people said um like oh it’s called Wilder just carrying these guys to the championship and when I look back on that team obviously Fred Van vet was not an All-Star yet became an All-Star there um Pascal seak hadn’t really become an Allstar yet became a two-time allar I’m not mistaken I think Pascal made first team all NBA at one point this year or second team I mean uh throughout those years um Kyle lari Danny Green Sergey Baka Mark gasa like I feel like like those are the championship teams I remember right like you go down the list and it’s boom boom boom boom like what was it like coaching that team I think you if I’m not mistaken I think you guys had was Garrett Temple on your bench at that point no we had Norman po we had nor Norman P yeah we had OG was was got hurt right before the playoffs so he was on that team uh that was yeah you’re right I mean what was it like coaching them it was awesome I mean I think we knew we had a chance from day one you know you go to training camp and you’re looking around you’re going holy this is like we’re good man like we’re really good like and and kind of the cool thing about it was we didn’t really nobody else really was talking too much about us you know what I mean like we kind of stayed under the radar um and and it wasn’t like even when the playoffs started I think I went back I went back one time and looked and I think I think one out of like 16 reporters picked the Raptors you know like nobody was talking about us we’re this close to crowning an NBA champion I like the Celtics by the way in six Jaylen Brown’s going to be my MVP and I love the Celtics in game one but sign up 90 seconds put in the code Collins c o l i n draftking sports book an official sports betting partner the NBA if you’re a new customer bet five bucks that’s it just bet five bucks and you’ll get 150 bucks instantly in bonus bets the code Collins c l i n shows them that you’re a new customer to get 150 bucks in bonus bets only on DraftKings the crown is yours I’m leaning Celtics in six baby [Music]

Former Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse and Draymond Green discuss coaching Kawhi Leonard and how Kawhi helped the entire roster improve en route to an NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors in 2019. Then, Nurse explains why he wasn’t surprised when Kawhi left for the Los Angeles Clippers after what happened over the course of their first time meeting.

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