{"id":213820,"date":"2025-10-15T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:56:08","slug":"why-spurs-no-2-kawhi-leonard-jersey-isnt-retired-but-instead-belongs-to-rookie-dylan-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213820\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Spurs&#8217; No. 2 Kawhi Leonard jersey isn&#8217;t retired but instead belongs to rookie Dylan Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s exit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> may not have been perfect.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still one of the best players in franchise history, though.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it curious that this season, Dylan Harper will wear the No. 2 on his jersey. That was Leonard&#8217;s number.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not retired, though.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs have opted to keep the number in circulation despite Leonard winning a championship, two Defensive Player of the Year awards, two All-NBA awards and a Finals NBA in his time in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Harper will be a good player. But there are a lot of numbers out there.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Still crazy to me a player apart of 2 finals runs, 2x DPOY, a Top 3 MVP X DPOY finish, 2x all nba, 2x all star, champion and FMVP\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Is not going to get his jersey retired by the franchise. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W5DqMmNfPn\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/W5DqMmNfPn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ash \u2122\ufe0f (@ash4nd1021) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ash4nd1021\/status\/1977929418375930321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\/news\/mavs-cooper-flagg-hopes-temporary-anthony-davis-concern\/c3d17144d8856066d6b80547\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper Flagg has what he hopes is a temporary Anthony Davis concern<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s jersey number 2 retired by Spurs?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official word on why the Spurs haven&#8217;t retired the number 2 for Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>But it probably has to do with how things ended.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard had a year-long dispute with the Spurs due to a quad injury, and it ended up ruining his relationships in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the Spurs traded Leonard to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, and he won a title there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some day the hard feelings go away and the Spurs recognize Leonard for his greatness.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Harper gets 2 on his back, too.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA News:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s exit from the San Antonio Spurs may not have been perfect. He&#8217;s still one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-213820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}