Toronto won 92-90. He wound up leaving the Raptors in the summer for the Clippers, returning to his native Southern California and turning the historically woeful franchise into one of the top teams in the league.“The ride was fun,” Leonard said earlier this month on his return trip to Toronto, summing up his year with the Raptors. Andrew Donlin is the Air Force's 2019 Male Athlete of the Year. Leonard missed most of the 2017-18 season with the Spurs because of a complicated leg issue, and the NBA said last month that he is still dealing with “an ongoing injury to the patella tendon in his left knee.”.He was limping at times in the playoffs, but it didn’t matter. Our Female Athlete of the Year is a two-sport athlete, having played four years of volleyball in the fall and ran four years of track in the spring. Push, pull, whatever he’s got to do. ... He’s going to find a way.”.During the playoffs, Leonard’s “I’m a fun guy” quote that he offered on his arrival in Toronto became a meme and a marketing slogan. The captain is one of the nation’s top-ranked USA Team Handball players and a member of the 26-member USA Men’s National Team premier player pool. It's about me playing basketball and having fun on the floor. Your respect just grows. He becomes the fifth NBA player to win the award, joining Larry Bird (1986), three-time recipient Michael Jordan (1991 through 1993), three-time recipient LeBron James (2013, 2016, 2018) and Stephen Curry (2015). When it comes to high school athletics around Evansville, 2019 was a good year. In the biggest times, he came up the biggest — 15 points in the fourth quarter to carry Toronto past Milwaukee in the series-turning Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, and 17 points in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals against Golden State to put the Raptors on the cusp of the title.And, of course, he made The Shot: the four-bounce-off-the-rim, at-the-buzzer jump shot from the corner to beat Philadelphia in Game 7 of the second round.“Without a doubt,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse mused during the playoff run, “the best thing about this thing is that somehow I wound up on the sideline getting to watch this guy play up close.”.Leonard performed at that lofty level even while dealing with a major distraction. He's just a good guy who wanted to be good. ''I'm playing to have fun and try to be the best player I can be,'' Leonard said. He was the Fun Guy. “I had a great time.”.By now, it’s no secret that Leonard is a man of few words.He received more than twice as many points in the balloting as any of the other 18 vote-getters. ... He’s going to find a way.”.During the playoffs, Leonard’s “I’m a fun guy” quote that he offered on his arrival in Toronto became a meme and a marketing slogan. Your respect just grows. An acquisition program manager, Donlin is currently a member of the Air Force Services Center’s World Class Athlete Program training for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. ''There's a lot of guys that are like, 'Look, I'm going to find a way to win and in a seven-game series I'm going to get the best of you in the end,''' said Miami's Jimmy Butler, who was with Philadelphia last season and saw up-close what makes Leonard tick. The World Athlete of the Year award is a prize that can be won by athletes participating in events within the sport of athletics organised by World Athletics (formerly named IAAF), including track and field , cross country running , road running , and racewalking . It's not about me being famous or want to have more fame than those guys. He's going to find a way. In the biggest times, he came up the biggest - 15 points in the fourth quarter to carry Toronto past Milwaukee in the series-turning Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, and 17 points in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals against Golden State to put the Raptors on the cusp of the title.And, of course, he made The Shot: the four-bounce-off-the-rim, at-the-buzzer jump shot from the corner to beat Philadelphia in Game 7 of the second round.

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