WIN-throp: The nation’s under-the-radar unbeaten

There’s a rule of thumb in the agent world that, if an agent claims multiple teams are interested in a free agent but names none of the teams, there may be no interested teams. Some may express similar skepticism regarding the Steelers’ public claim that three teams have reached out about receiver Antonio Brown, while keeping the names of the teams private. While it wouldn’t make sense for the Steelers to out the teams that have reached out, it’s impossible to know whether three or two or even one have reached out when the team with an obvious interest in maximizing the perceived interest in the player controls the message.

Some damning new information came to light yesterday about the Kawhi Leonard situation via Michael C. Wright’s appearance on Tom Haberstroh’s podcast, with Wright shedding some light on the situation that the Spurs find themselves in. After listening to the podcast in it’s entirety, here are some of the key takeaways: Wright explains that a big reason for the gap between Leonard and the team is because of the perception held by Kawhi’s group that the Spurs are too controlling. However, it seems that Kawhi’s Uncle Dennis may not be the best person to evaluate how controlling someone is. Wright told a previously unshared anecdote about All Star Weekend in New Orleans in January to illustrate that