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#1 Kawhi Leonard
Who is the best perimeter defender in the league? Which team is off to the rudest start league-wide? Who is the most dominant two-way player on the planet?
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If you don't think the answers are Kawhi, Toronto and Kawhi, I'd recommend you to watch some Raptors ball this season. Even as The Klaw eases into his physical peak having sat out basically all of the 2017-18 season and regains his explosiveness, he is unequivocally the one player who can do it all, and deliver in clutch moments on both ends of the floor. Consider this play:
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And let me know who else on the planet can think of pulling this off. And who can actually do it.
The Raptors are the second best team in the league right now, and Kawhi is the primary reason for that. He has the stats to back that up, and is only going to get better by the end of the season. Not having won the award before means that the narrative in his favour will also be pretty strong, and that is why he's #1 on this list.
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