The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox.Yesterday’s free-agency action was kind of mild. Trades have become the new free agency, and we didn’t see a ton of movement in the market. At least not yet. Ten years ago, we had Timofey Mozgov, Kent Bazemore and Allen Crabbe signing for big money and making our heads spin. It would be nice if teams would stop being so responsible and turn back the clockKawhi not?It’s a stunning Raptors reunionKawhi Leonard is being traded to the Raptors for the second time in his career. He’s headed to Toronto in exchange for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, a 2031 first-round pick, a 2033 first, a 2027 pick swap and two future second-round picks. If you gave me 15 guesses where Kawhi would be headed this summer, I would not have offered the Raptors once. Wouldn’t have even crossed my mind.Back in 2019 when Kawhi and Paul George were joining the LA Clippers, Leonard was asked about why he chose the Clippers as his next team. Aside from Los Angeles being his home, he explained it was the first time he got to decide where he was going to play. He was drafted by San Antonio (in a draft-night trade with Indiana). Then he didn’t say that he was traded to Toronto or to the Raptors in 2018. He said he was “traded to Canada.”It was such a funny way of describing how he ended up on the Raptors, even though it became a very successful season for him. He led Toronto to the 2019 championship with heroic performance after heroic performance, as he dragged his one good leg up and down the court. He had a knee injury then, and it’s only seemed to get worse no matter what approach the Clippers tried. Leonard missed a lot of games with the Clippers, but it felt like he was never going to leave there. LA was where he wanted to be.So why is he going to play for the Raptors again? What does this mean for both teams and Kawhi? Feels like it’s time for me to talk to myself and answer my own questions.Why did the Clippers trade him? They did not want to give him a contract extension. Leonard turned 35 years old on Monday and is in the final year of his contract. He’s eligible for a two-year, $126.9 million extension (give or take a few dollars). Instead of him leaving for nothing next summer, the Clippers decided to continue their youth movement.Wait, the Clippers are doing a youth movement? Kind of! Remember when they had George, James Harden and Kawhi all together at some point in the 2023-24 season? Well …