Kawhi Leonard News: Spurs Legend David Robinson Perplexed By Move To Raptors

San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson is still perplexed by Kawhi Leonard's move to the Toronto Raptors, while also stating that the 28-year-old has always been hard to communicate with.

Leonard shocked the whole basketball world when it emerged last month that he wanted to be traded away from the San Antonio franchise. It was understood that he was not pleased with how the Spurs handled his quadriceps injury along with public comments made by former teammate Tony Parker and head coach Gregg Popovich about his recovery process.

Leonard played just nine games during the entirety of last season and while he was expected to return in mid-March, he never made his comeback which seemingly put him at odds with everyone at the franchise.

The 2014 Finals MVP preferred a move to his native Los Angeles, California, but he was eventually traded to the Toronto Raptors in a package last week that saw San Antonio notably receive the services of DeMar DeRozan.

While the saga is finally over and Robinson is happy with the deal his old team received, he still feels the whole situation was a bizarre one.

"I mean, it's one of the oddest situations I think I've seen since I've been in pro basketball," Robinson said, according to ESPN. "He's [Leonard] a hard guy to understand. He's a hard guy to read."

"San Antonio, we obviously have a reputation for taking care of our players, almost too much, I mean, people criticize us for sitting guys down. Now all of the sudden, you know, we've got a guy who says he felt pressure to play. Which is, you know, tough. I mean, what can you do? We typically don't risk our players' health. But if a guy's not happy, he's got to go somewhere where he can play, and I think [coach] Pop [Gregg Popovich] and [general manager] R.C. [Buford] and our team did a pretty good job of kind of meeting our needs for the future. I think we'll move on from here. I think we're pretty happy with the deal and we'll continue to grow and get better," he said.

Leonard was a player expected to be a Spur for life much like Robinson and fellow franchise legend Tim Duncan. However, it wasn't to be, as Robinson went on to add how Leonard was always hard to reach out to even before he became unsettled, which ultimately played a big role in the process to attempt to keep him.

"He really, he's a hard guy," Robinson explained. "He's just quiet. He doesn't ... I've reached out to him several times and just never hear anything back from him."

"I think the whole time he's been here [in San Antonio], I've talked to him maybe a handful of times, and I can count on one hand how many words he's really said to me. So he's just a quiet guy, and I think that that's made it difficult, I think, for all parties to really understand each other in this process," he said.

Leonard is notably yet to make any public statement about the whole saga or his signing with the Raptors.