Toronto won the trade because they didn’t give up more young players and have heavy protection on the draft pick. I can understand why Toronto did what they did. The Spurs most likely wanted the reported deal of one of the young wings and DeRozan but the leak that Kawhi didn’t want to be there helped Toronto’s leverage.
San Antonio got an established star player a solid young rotation player, 1st round pick and most importantly got rid of a lot of drama. It sucks that they had to trade Danny Green to make salaries work.
The Spurs were never gonna take less than the 3 players and a couple of draft picks from the Lakers because 1) they are in the same conference 2) as long as Pop is there they want players that can help them win games now and 3) they aren’t trying to help the Lakers start a super team
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