Leonard Kawai Biography

The earthquake that led Leonard to Clippers seemed to be caused by the secret file of the secret service. There are very few accurate leaks in the previous days, the almost complete lack of information about the player’s intentions by the press and the final destination, which, judging by the rumors that spread in those days, few expected. The stage of the great couples, literature of Tolkien, if we were described it a couple of years ago, and now a pure reality in the league.

The truth is that, of course, only his family, his uncle, is actually the figure of his father, his mother, his wife and very few still knew about the intentions of Kavay Leonard before moving to Clippers and leave half the rivals upside down. Perhaps even they did not know all the details: that he tried to seduce Kevin Durant and Paul George to join him in Los Angeles that he would sign a contract for only two years plus the general misinformation was a reflection of his own unquestioned character of the player, his routine behavior within the framework of the minimalist and to the extreme of an introverted mind.

Leonard is one organism per million, restrained, like few stars in the history of the league, and a lover of examination to such an extent that, for example, for many months after arrival in the NBA, he retained the SUV that he was. He is a unique creature due to his habits, because of the tightness and illegibility of his entire existence. And in this article we are going to understand that all this absence of bells in the decision of Kai this summer and his character as a person began to germinate when he was only 16 years old.

He was just a teenager, but even then he survived the greatest tragedy of his whole life. The one that marks the rest of its days. The laundry room was a place where parents and children spent most of the time together; There, the young Kavha stretched his body to help his father during sessions lasting up to 10 hours a day, working with sponges, windshields and imperfect bodies. It was the work of his family, and therefore he did everything he could to help.

This place was the place where many memories of his father came from. It was here that Kawai and Mark shared laughter, teachings, lessons and thousands of conversations. It was his personal shelter. They had excellent relations, very close, because the current player "Clippers" was very annoyed. And suddenly horror. They called the phone and he picked up the phone. Very, very serious, he hung up and told me: “Mom, they say, my father died,” said Kaima, Kim Leonard, years after the tragedy.

The brand was cold -blooded when he was at work, in the laundry, where he spent so much time with his little son. At the time of the incident, Mark was going to close the door, as on any other day, when seven men attacked him. It was January of the year; Ten cold -blooded bullets destroyed the life of the head of the Leonard family. His father suddenly disappeared, and this is forever.

It seemed to me that the world had stopped. At that moment I did not want to believe it. It seemed not for real. I’m not sure what happened, I really know nothing, except that someone unknown approached my father and shot him. The Leonard family, in fact, many years ago ceased to require responsibility from the authorities of California, Los Angeles and the private detective, which they hired to clarify the circumstances of this event.

In full seriousness, he hung up after receiving the message and told me: “My father is dead. It was almost not like that he suffered when he was saying this, ”said the attacker's mother. The player, at that time being a teenager, was in complete shock, and this string of horrors in his brain forever remembered his personality and his actions. Yes, this terrible incident gave rise to the most closed Kavha, whom we all know.

His restrained character began to form, and this happened after the tragic murder of his hero. Relations with the father of Kavay Anthony's connection The second name with his father was very cramped. In fact, Mark from a young age instilled in him a huge love for American football, a sport that Kawai was engaged before adolescence. Mark very much would like the youngest of his five children all the girls, except Kawai, become a professional player of NFL as Stevie Johnson, a cousin in the family.

Moreover, Kawai himself would not mind making a career of a great football player. His father, although partly upset that his son did not share passion for courtyards and grass, supported Kavay’s decision from the moment he met her. With Mark, he not only spent time on a car wash, they trained together and played basketball. He was the standard of that teenager who sought to become a sport star thanks to a growing hercumar physique and practically painful determination.

Is there a chance that he is alive or that they have the wrong person? I just talked to him that day. It was very difficult for me, ”the young Kavkha asked himself then.A gloomy turn occurred in his life, and the shock was such a scale that it forever confirmed the judgment in his character and mind. The game after all the drama, wanting to go outside, but being clamped to the depths of his being, Kavai had to face the game, he played in high school Riverside just a few hours after his father’s life was shot.

He decided to play this fight. His father had to be in the stands and cheer him up, so he could not fail. He scored a lot of points and played a very interesting game, but, in the end, this teenager, who is on the verge of explosion, could no longer resist. Although he rarely showed his feelings publicly, especially in that extreme situation and in a crowded pavilion, at the end of the game he surrendered to his mother’s arms and burst into tears.

What he had never done before, at least his family members were witnesses. I can't. The restrained anger and sadness destroyed the sentimental barrier, which the Kawaii erected before his physiognomy. Basketball is my life, and I wanted to play and be distracted from all this. It was very sad. My father was supposed to be in the stands during the game. He would be very proud.

I tried to play as much as I could. That would be what my father would like, ”the summer Kawai could say a few hours after that disaster, just a few days later and moments after the murder of his father. Outwardly, he seemed solid and sober, like an adult, but inside continued to pour out like a child he was. At the duel match, by the way, actor Denzel Washington was present as the viewer, whose son performed in the same match.

The multiple holder of Oscar was surprised by the story that he was told when he was in the stands: his son’s command comrade had just lost his father and was the most outstanding team player in that fight. We honored him with a minute of silence, and this guy called Kawai Leonard. He had about 29 points and 27 rebounds, and I thought: "Wow, this guy inspired and motivated the loss of his father." And what a coincidence.

No one knew that I could continue to do this over the next 20 years. Even then he was special, ”Denzel Washington commented some time after those fateful 24 hours. This wave of tears in her mother’s arms after the game was an oasis in the desert of emotional impressions. Until 16 years old, Kavkha was already a boy with a slightly closed character, but after the death of his father, this was multiplied by several numbers.

His mother always assured that her son, after the tragedy, would never become the same. Every time she asked Kavay, whether he was in order, the answer did not come, and if he came, it was in the form of a short: "I'm fine." Not a word more; Moreover, no emotions, in fact, after the gloomy event, the mother of Kavha, Kim, began to feel strange elements in her son. I did not see him to suffer like a boy of his age in such circumstances.

He did not express his emotions and did not indicate the duties of his position. This made his mother be very worried. I tried to constantly ask him if everything was in order, did he want to talk about something; But Kavay's answers were always internal, restrained, without translating the senses into the language of feelings or the language of what was spinning in his head at these moments.

Mark was a model for his son, as well as one of his best friends with whom he talked on the phone every evening when he could not be at home, ”his mother explained. Many people indicate a tragic event and how Kawai ordered their habits, as that in many respects determined its current character.

From his quiet, shy and restrained nature. I wanted him to do it. I am: “Kawai, are you all right? I was scared. He was just a young man and lost his father, a great figure in his life. This could lead to poor consequences for him. But the kawaii was always strong. But when I became older, I stopped thinking about it, ”Kawai himself said not so long ago. Of course, the ocean of thoughts swept through the player’s head, ninety -nine percent of them were associated with his defeat, but he learned that the best way to cope with everything was to be sparing, almost nothing to say.

And this is his personality to this day. The figure of his uncle after the death of his father decided to act his uncle Dennis Robertson Mother's brother. Four young teenagers were too heavy for a lonely, recently widowed mother. Dennis moved to live with the Leonard family to help in everyday life and in sorrows, and ultimately became one of the most influential figures in Kavi; The greatest professional, without any doubt.

He already fought against life, ”Kawai said about his uncle. In the end, he became a father whom he could not have a two -time MVP final from the age of 16, as well as an unofficial power of attorney. Dennis is the one to whom Leonard trusts all his basketball decisions, and he is even an exponent of his spiritual state and his complaints.He was and is everything for his nephew.

In the past two years, the name of Dennis also appeared in the media due to its appearance in such topics as the departure of Kavay from San Antonio, after disagreements with the Texas franchise. There could be no better way to give a brand victory than to achieve it, albeit by chance, on such a day. These will be the best years of my life in the NBA. Being summer, being so young, you should not worry about things in life that do not have much importance.