5 Potential Clippers free agent targets with ties to Kawhi Leonard

These players are all upcoming free agents with some sort of connection to Kawhi Leonard.
Kawhi Leonard, OG Anunoby
Kawhi Leonard, OG Anunoby / Cole Burston/GettyImages
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2. OG Anunoby

Another of Kawhi's Raptors teammates, OG Anunoby has made considerable growth since that momentous 2018-19 title season. Coming in as a second-year player, OG was known to have tremendous defensive potential and a budding offensive game as well. Unfortunately, he was forced to sit out for their playoff run that year due to injury.

But since then, Anunoby has grown into a terrorizing two-way threat. Just a year ago, he earned All-Defensive second team honors with the Raptors, finishing seventh in Defensive Player of the Year voting. In his 23 regular season games after being traded to the Knicks in 2023-24, he averaged a 39% shooting mark from beyond the three-point arc for the third time in his career.

Suffice to say, OG has grown into a tremendous difference-maker at both ends of the floor. The only problem the Clippers would have in acquiring him is his large contract. Anunoby was earning $18 million this past season and will have a player option in New York for next year. Should he decline and opt for free agency, the Clippers would have to put together a sign-and-trade agreement that would potentially involve dealing Paul George, or another big contract to make room for OG's likely sizeable new contract.