IndiaAIFounders — Will the Toronto Raptors be better than the Boston Celtics with Kawhi Leonard?

Now that the NBA judgment on the Los Angeles Clippers cap circumvention scandal has (at least for now) cleared the path for veteran forward Kawhi Leonard to be traded to the Toronto Raptors, are the Boston Celtics going to be left behind in the Eastern Conference standings? By all accounts, the Raptors with a healthy Kawhi would indeed be at the least a comparable ball club in terms of talent, and arguably a better one.

But there is a lot riding on the word 'healthy' in that proposition, to say nothing of how the Leonard - Clippers scandal might carry its own psychic weight. Can a player who has not played more than 55 games in the four seasons since tearing their ACL playing under the cloud of said scandal truly make Toronto better than Boston?

Get a look at how the reporters who cover the Raptors are seeing this scenario think of the matchup vs. Boston in terms of the regular season standings via this recent episode of the folks behind the "Locked On Raptors" YouTube channel in the clip embedded below.

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