Spurs Confirm: Kawhi, Green to Toronto for DeRozan, Poeltl & draft pick

The  San Antonio Spurs today announced that the team has obtained guard  DeMar DeRozan, center Jakob Poeltl and a protected 2019 first round pick  from the Toronto Raptors in exchange for forward Kawhi Leonard and  guard Danny Green. 

DeRozan  was named to the 2018 All-NBA Second Team after averaging 23.0 points,  5.2 assists and 3.9 rebounds in 33.9 minutes in 80 games last season  with Toronto. The 6-7, 220-pound guard shot .456 (645-1,413) from the  field, .310 (89-287) from three-point range and .825 (461-559) from the  free throw line. A four-time All-Star, DeRozan holds career averages of  19.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 675 games over nine NBA  seasons. He earned All-NBA Third Team honors following the 2016-17  season when he ranked fifth in the league in scoring, averaging a  career-best 27.3 points. 

The  ninth overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, DeRozan is one of 10 players  in the league to average 20-or-more points in each of the last five  seasons and has been named to three straight NBA All-Star teams. A gold  medalist on the 2016 USA Olympic Team, he has earned Eastern Conference  Player of the Week honors nine times and has been named the Eastern  Conference Player of the Month three times (April 2015, January 2016 and  January 2018). 

Appearing  in all 82 games, Poeltl averaged 6.9 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.22  blocks in 18.6 minutes for Toronto during the 2017-18 season. Selected  by the Raptors with the ninth overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, the  7-0, 230-pound center has appeared in 136 games in his two-year NBA  career, averaging 5.4 points and 4.1 rebounds in 15.8 minutes. Poeltl  holds a career field goal percentage of .641 (320-499), which ranks  fifth in the NBA among all players with at least 300 field goals made in  the last two seasons.

Poeltl  is both the first Austrian to be selected in the NBA Draft and to  appear in an NBA game. He played two seasons at the University of Utah,  earning All-American second team honors as a sophomore during the  2015-16 season. Poeltl was also named the 2016 Pac-10 Player of the Year  and won the 2016 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award as the top center in college  basketball. 

Leonard  spent his first seven seasons in the NBA with the Spurs, appearing in a  total of 407 games and averaging 16.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.3  assists. Green joined San Antonio in 2010 and averaged 9.1 points, 3.5  rebounds and 1.7 assists in 520 contests with the Silver and Black. 


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