Spurs may find themselves between a rock and a hard place this summer. On the one hand, Leonard will enter the final year of his deal and could leave as a free agent in 2019. On the other, retaining him may mean offering him a $200 supermax extension, a huge financial commitment.

For the Spurs, the choice likely comes down to smoothing out the relationship with the player after his long and at times bizarre injury hiatus this season and offering him the supermax or simply trading him this summer to the highest bidder.

And there would be bidders, though the longer the Spurs waited to trade him, the less the Spurs could get in return.

But even if the Spurs were inclined to move Leonard to a team like thethe road from Aldama, in Santa Marta, the wives of men who had joined a PRI paramilitary brigade complained to La Jornada correspondent Hermann Bellinghausen that their husbands never slept with them anymore and were watching pornographic movies and smoking marijuana. In Mexican marijuana lore, as extravagantly hysterical as U.S. reefer madness, La Mota is believed to transform the user into a cold-blooded homicidal zombie, capable of murder without remorse – rather than the doughnut-munching couch-potato profile that fits most weed smokers.

As has often been the case in the drug war here, the siege of Aldama was more a photo op than a telling blow against traders in estupificantes (another government euphemism for drugs). Indeed, the discovery of the plants in plain sight of a well-traveled path between