How much will Raptors' playoff success matter to Kawhi Leonard's future?
TORONTO - Their eyes are looking up.
Three-thousand Toronto Raptors fans, the faces that represent the city's cultural diversity, are almost pressed against one another outside the team's downtown arena, staring up at a 40-by-78-foot screen.
It's the first game of the 2019 playoffs. The sun is out. Breath isn't turning to fog on every exhale, but the air is still biting.
Made shots are met with cheers, misses with groans. In the playoffs, each second means so much, each make, each miss amplified in the public square that's been dubbed Jurassic Park for Raptors playoff games.
The eyes are all looking up at the screen, waiting to see what's next.
They're not alone.
Teams around the NBA, particularly the Los Angeles Clippers and the Raptors, want to
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