Kawhi Leonard reportedly passed Physical Raptors as Danny Green says Spurs mishandled his groin injury

The mysterious thigh injury of Kawhi Leonard has Suffice to keep him out for almost Throughout last season, he's engaged in an increasingly acrimonious confrontation with the Spurs that resulted in his trade last week at the Raptors. However, Leonard has apparently recovered enough to have spent his physique in Toronto, while Danny Green, who was with Leonard in the trade, is supporting his teammate's skepticism towards San Antonio medical staff.

On his new podcast, Green said that his own groin injury was handled badly by the Spurs. He claimed that after an initial diagnosis of "mild fatigue" and a rehab program that had kept him away for a few games, he continued to feel discomfort, but the team doctors did not send him to a specialist the season, when it was revealed that the tension had worsened in a tear of the groin.

"I would feel it and they were like, my agent," Maybe you should get a second opinion. "I did not want to, because I have total faith and I believe in Spurs staff," Green said. "They've always been great with me, they've always done the right thing, they've always done a lot of work, so we've been watching it all season, but we've never been back. check, because there have been so many other wounds.

"I could have had a second opinion, so I see where Kawhi comes from when he has his second opinion. Because many times, you receive information from outside sources that, not saying that Spurs staff is not up to par, it's not that everyone is a specialist in all of areas. "

in September as a case of right quadriceps tendinopathy that would keep him out for pre-season games." Coach Gregg Popovich then offered vague descriptions of his star player's status then that Leonard missed the opening game of the season and many more games thereafter, only returning to the field on Dec. 12. until San Antonio set him up for the season. Gap in January for "an indefinite period", which has turned out to be the rest of the season.The reports began to emerge from "discord" between the NBA defensive player of the year and the Spurs, and while Popovich did not care about talking about a rare "soap opera" involving his team normally without drama, it was not long before NBA Insiders claimed that some of Leonard's teammates were expressing their frustration and l. implored to return to alignment.

This is not true but produced, Leonard even refusing to run for the Spurs playoffs while using New York as a base for his medical treatments and recovery efforts. When Spurs officials came to New York to monitor him, he would have hidden them, reflecting the oddly extreme state of his remoteness from the team.

Leonard is no longer in the team, having been treated with the Raptors in green. exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a protected first round pick of 2019. His past physique, reported Tuesday by Brian Windhorst of ESPN, means that trading is official, and Leonard's health is no longer the problem of Spurs.

"They did everything they could, but I think it would have been nice to see a specialist, just to see if there was another angle, another view," Green said. from the Spurs training team. "Just because Kawhi has a second opinion, you can not hit him for that."

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