Who is Kishele Shipley, Girlfriend of Kawhi Leonard? His Parents, Family, Salary, Jersey

American professional basketball player Kawhi Leonard plays for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. He is a two-time NBA champion, a five-time All-Star, and a member of three All-NBA First Teams. For his ball-hawking abilities, he has received seven All-Defensive Team selections and two Defensive Player of the Year awards. He is known as the “Claw” or “Klaw.” For the San Diego State Aztecs, for whom Leonard played college basketball for two seasons, he was selected as a second-team All-American as a sophomore.

NBA free agents 2021 - Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul
Kawhi Leonard (2) and Chris Paul (3) have both helped their teams, even though they have been sidelined

On draft night, he was taken with the 15th overall choice by the Indiana Pacers before being traded to the San Antonio Spurs. When Leonard played for the Spurs and was voted the Finals Most Valuable Player in 2014, the Spurs won the NBA championship title. Leonard was moved to the Toronto Raptors in 2018 after spending the previous seven seasons with the Spurs.

He guided the Raptors to their first NBA title in team history in 2019 and received his second Finals MVP award (one of only three players to win Finals MVP with multiple teams, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James). He then moved to Los Angeles, where he was born and raised, and in July 2019 he signed as a free agent with the Clippers.

Kawhi Leonard Wife

Kawhi is a star player at the Clippers and is not married or engaged to anyone yet. But this does not mean that he is not in a relationship as Kawhi is in a relationship with a beautiful girl named Kishele Shipley. Kishele is a supportive and understanding girlfriend who supports his partner in his every big decision.

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Kishele is Kawhi’s long-term girlfriend they began dating back in 2014 and after 8 years, they are still going strong. Shipley and Leonard both studied at San Diego State University. There is a rumor that the two met, sparking their relationship, and after 8 years, they are still going strong since 2014.

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The couple prefers to keep their personal life private and out of the media’s eye and hence posted very little about their relationship on social media handles. Currently, they are enjoying their parenthood phase as they have 3 kids together.

Kawhi Leonard Parents and Family

Kawhi was born on 29 June 1991 in Los Angeles, California, United States to parents Mark Leonard and Kim Robertson. His parents got divorced when he was very young and then he lived most of his childhood with his mother. His father remarried but in 2008, his father was shot and killed at a car wash center. This was a lot to take at his young age but his mother supported him.

He is very close to his mother and his mother also supported him in every phase of his life. She often visits the grounds to watch his matches and to cheer him up. He is not the only child in the family as he has 4 sisters. Only two of his sisters’ names are known, that is Miesha Slayton and Kimesha Monae Williams. The name of the other two sisters is not unknown at this moment.

Kawhi Leonard Salary

Clippers Kawhi Leonard

Kawhi is under contract with the Clippers for $42,492,492. This is his 2022-23 season’s salary. His next two season’s salary will be $45,640,084, and $48,787,676. His net worth is somewhere between $80 million to $85 million.

Kawhi Jersey

Kawhi is currently playing as a small forward with the Los Angeles Clippers and wears jersey number 2 with them. Before Kawhi, 14 other players wore this jersey. Pooh Richardson and Tim Thomas were the ones who wore this number for 2 long years. There were many super-talented players who carried this jersey number. Kawhi is carrying this number since 2020.

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