The understatement makes me laugh. Because a few …

Instead, he figured it out himself — through observation, repetition, and what turns out to have been a surprisingly intense hatred of losing. “I just cared about winning a lot,” he says. The understatement makes me laugh. Because a few minutes later he casually admits that he used to cry after losses. Not occasionally. Regularly. “Soon as the game over, if we lose, I’ll just start crying,” he says. Then he laughs. “Like, damn, we lost. I thought you supposed to win every game.” For all the mythology that has built up around Leonard over the years, there is something oddly endearing about the image of a young Kawhi genuinely believing that the entire point of sports was never to lose.

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