{"id":940764,"date":"2026-10-21T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:22:13","slug":"kawhi-leonard-posts-toronto-tribute-video-ahead-of-raptors-openerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940764\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard posts Toronto tribute video ahead of Raptors openerra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kawhi Leonard is revisiting his championship-winning season with the Toronto Raptors in a tribute video released ahead of the team\u2019s season opener on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou never asked me to be anybody else. You let me be me,\u201d said Leonard in a video posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Deu6Ja_Masj\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Deu6Ja_Masj\/\">Instagram<\/a> Tuesday, captioned \u201cAs I Return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cToronto. It\u2019s been a minute since I left, and one thing I\u2019ve learned about time: people move on, things change, and even the greatest moments become memories,\u201d Leonard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBut some things, some things stay with them. What we shared here. That\u2019s forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The video marks one of many social media posts Leonard has made since being traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Toronto Raptors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The trade became official on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wednesday night\u2019s game marks the first time Leonard will don a Raptors jersey since Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOne thing I know, it wasn\u2019t luck the first time, and I still know what it takes. But I\u2019m not here to live in the past. I\u2019m here for what\u2019s next,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHere in the north, we got a young team, hungry and ready. And just like we had our moment, we\u2019re trying to shock the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Raptors are set to face the Chicago Bulls at Scotiabank Arena at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard is revisiting his championship-winning season with the Toronto Raptors in a tribute video released ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-940764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940764","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=940764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}