LA Clippers: 3 reasons Stephen A. Smith is wrong about Kawhi Leonard

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No. 2 reason Stephen A. Smith is wrong about the LA Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard: His leadership comments make no sense

Stephen A. Smith’s thoughts on how Kawhi Leonard shakes up as a leader on the LA Clippers were quite cringeworthy.

“His personality doesn’t gravitate towards leadership,” said Smith. “He’s more of a ‘watch me do it.’ A ‘do it’ kind of guy, as opposed to really galvanizing the troops, and being a talker.”

So what if Kawhi’s not a “talker?” It obviously doesn’t effect his leadership, as his teammates have cited that he even leads while being injured and not even on the trips with the team.

Kawhi talks when he needs to talk. Sure, he’s not known as an incredibly vocal leader, but his style clearly works. Ask the city of Toronto is he was a good enough leader for the Raptors. He may not be somebody with a loud leading style, but his reputation as a guy who can lead well by example is a great reputation.

I don’t know where Stephen A. got this idea that Kawhi leading by example is somehow a bad thing. None of his Clipper teammates have come out and said that it’s been any sort of problem.

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