LOS ANGELES – Spend a few days in the newest hoops capital of the world and you learn very quickly that Kawhi Leonard and his new Clippers co-workers are nothing if not audacious.



The man from nearby Moreno Valley has been back in his home region for just a few months, having rocked the NBA with his power move from Toronto to the Clippers that paired him with Paul George just weeks after Leonard won it all with the Raptors. Yet if all you saw were the signs and the commercials and the way in which a growing media contingent covers his every move, you might think the franchise’s first banner – and his third – had already been raised.



Never mind that the other team in town, the Lakers group that will quickly remind you how it has 16 actual banners to boast about, has a dynamic duo of its own in LeBron James and Anthony Davis that will have something to say about it all.



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