{"id":534347,"date":"2026-09-25T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=534347"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:13:37","slug":"raptors-say-kawhi-leonard-extension-will-not-affect-rj-barrett-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/raptors-say-kawhi-leonard-extension-will-not-affect-rj-barrett-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors say Kawhi Leonard extension will not affect RJ Barrett talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kawhi Leonard\u2019s two-year, $115 million extension will not limit the Toronto Raptors\u2019 negotiations with RJ Barrett, who is entering the final season of his contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo, I think ownership has been incredibly supportive. Any time, financially, we want to make a go for it, they\u2019re very supportive,\u201d general manager Bobby Webster said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barrett averaged 19.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists last season. The Canadian forward is entering the final year of his four-year, $107 million deal and remains an important part of Toronto\u2019s new lineup around Leonard and Scottie Barnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM Bobby Webster says Toronto\u2019s ownership remains willing to support the franchise financially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-534347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Toronto-Raptors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534348,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534347\/revisions\/534348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534347"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=534347"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=534347"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=534347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}