Calm down, Spurs fans: Kawhi Leonard’s braids are alive and well

Take a deep breath. Kawhi’s braids didn’t go anywhere.

Welp, we got duped by some photographic trickery. 

A photo went viral last night purporting to show Kawhi Leonard without his trademark braids and Spurs fans were rightfully panicked. 

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The fact that the photo is filtered nearly beyond recognition perhaps should have been a red flag but that image certainly does show a braid-less Kawhi. It’s not real, though. 

Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News says “people close to Kawhi” (multiple people?) called to tell him “this photo is fake.” It is a photo of Leonard working out at the gym but someone “decided to alter the pic,” Young adds. 

Damn, even Kawhi’s hair isn’t safe from NBA rumor season.