accepted the NBA\u2019s punishment<\/a> in a social media post Sunday evening.<\/p>\nLeonard is expected to sign an extension with Toronto. This season will be the final year of a three-year, $149 million contract signed in January 2024. This trade reunites Leonard with the franchise he helped to a championship in 2019, marking the second of Leonard\u2019s two NBA Finals MVP awards.<\/p>\n
The 2025-26 campaign was arguably Leonard\u2019s finest offensive season. He earned his seventh All-Star selection and seventh All-NBA honor, making the All-NBA Second Team. Leonard averaged a career-high 27.9 points while shooting 50.5 percent from the field and making a career-best 2.6 3-pointers per contest. The two-time Defensive Player of the Year also averaged 1.9 steals, his highest mark in eight seasons.<\/p>\n
Ingram is coming off his second All-Star appearance, averaging 21.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists for a Raptors team that lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs. The Raptors traded for the 28-year-old in February 2025. Dick has played in 190 games since Toronto drafted him 13th overall in the 2023 NBA Draft, but saw his playing time and points per game cut by more than half last season.<\/p>\n
Leonard\u2019s departure ends a seven-year tenure that extended the Clippers\u2019 run of winning seasons and bridged the franchise into the era of its new arena in Inglewood, Calif. Ultimately, however, the partnership was defined as much by injuries and playoff absences as it was by regular-season success.<\/p>\n
To pair Leonard with Oklahoma City Thunder star Paul George, the Clippers executed one of the most consequential trades in franchise history, sending 2018 lottery pick Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Danilo Gallinari and control of seven first-round picks to Oklahoma City. The expectation was clear: The Clippers would immediately contend for championships throughout the primes of two Southern California natives, with Leonard from Moreno Valley and George from Palmdale.<\/p>\n
Seven years later, the 35-year-old Leonard was the last remaining player from the 2019-20 roster. The Clippers won just three playoff series during his time with the franchise. Their lone trip to the Western Conference finals came in 2021, when they fell to the Phoenix Suns while Leonard was sidelined with a torn right ACL that cost him the entire 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n
Now, the Clippers have to carry on with a roster led by Ingram, two-time All-Star point guard Darius Garland, and rookie Keaton Wagler. While head coach Tyronn Lue is in place, the Clippers\u2019 front office will be led by general manager Trent Redden and senior vice president Mark Hughes, who will have only the first-round picks from Toronto to work with going forward. The Clippers\u2019 first-round picks in 2027 and 2028 are involved in swaps.<\/p>\n
Toronto had a relatively quiet offseason, adding former Leonard teammate power forward Kyle Anderson on a guaranteed contract while drafting Santa Clara power forward Allen Graves in the first round of the June draft. Now, with Leonard, the Raptors remain in the mix of teams in arguably the most compelling Eastern Conference of the decade.<\/p>\n
The Clippers will be without rest both times they are set to face the Raptors this upcoming season. Leonard is set to return to Intuit Dome on Nov. 2, one night after the Raptors visit the Los Angeles Lakers and after the Clippers visit the Golden State Warriors. The Clippers will also visit Toronto on New Year\u2019s Day, one night after visiting James Harden and the Cavaliers. The Clippers and Raptors also are set to meet on Oct. 10 for a preseason game in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Clippers and the Toronto Raptors have officially completed the blockbuster trade both two teams agreed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,476],"class_list":["post-835258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba","tag-toronto-raptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117271057120533465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}