Founder and president of Impact Basketball Joe Abunassar thinks Kawhi Leonard’s jumpshot is a simple fix.

He says the ball rotation and footwork is fine. In drills, he tried to shorten his stroke and get the basketball on his fingertips and out of his huge hands.

It’s likely something the Spurs tweaked this week, too. Abunassar thinks it’s easily correctable when Leonard returns to work with him in a few weeks.

“It’s just a repetition thing,” Abunassar said.

But repetition isn’t always fun. Leonard turned 20 on Wednesday. How many guys that age, finally free of school and with some money, really want to spend summer sweating in a gym?

Leonard appears to be one. “If his workout was scheduled for 9 a.m.,” Abunassar said, “then he was in at 7:45 a.m.”

Sometimes he stayed until 11:30 p.m. Sometimes they had to tell him he had to leave.

“Kawhi is one of the most focused and serious,” Abunassar said, “I’ve ever had.”

Player’s union vice president Matt Bonner said he did not know if the union would offer a counterproposal to the owners’ latest offer. He also would not speculate on whether the players, like their NFL counterparts, would vote to decertify the union in the event of a lockout.

The owners’ latest offer would guarantee players no less than $2 billion per year for the duration of a 10-year deal, at an average salary of $5 million per player. Union officials say that represents a pay cut of $7 billion over the life of the deal, compared with the system in place now.

Owners are also angling for a hard salary cap like the NHL’s, which players view as a nonstarter.

“They’re asking for a deal that is worse than hockey’s, which is considered to be the worst collective bargaining deal in sports history,” Bonner said. “If that’s their best offer, we don’t have much choice but to fight for something better.”

in an interview with the Argentinian newspaper Ole, San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili disputed teammate Tony Parker's assertion that the Spurs' championship window was probably closed after their first-round loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.

"It's simple. Memphis played hard, defended well and had a very inspired Zach Randolph," Ginobili said. "I do not think it was physical. We reached the top in February when the rest is done more slowly or as happened to us in other seasons, when we gave up in the playoffs. This time it was not."

Tim Duncan is not expected to opt out of the final year of his contract, and the Spurs don’t plan to offer him an extension before the collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday, according to a source familiar with talks between the team and the franchise icon.

As such, Duncan will play out the final year of his existing deal, during which he is scheduled to earn $21.2 million, and remains on track to become a free agent after the 2011-12 campaign.

Duncan faces a Thursday deadline to exercise a early-termination option.

Kawhi Leonard was drafted by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th overall pick, but minutes later he was headed to the San Antonio Spurs as part of a trade.

The Pacers will deal the rights to Leonard and the 42nd overall pick to the Spurs for guard George Hill.

“I feel good. I had a meeting with them, and I got a great vibe from them,” he said of San Antonio when told of the reported trade. “Just any team I’m on, I’m happy with right now. I’m just going in, trying to do whatever the coach wants me to do to make the team successful.”

Leonard had been projected to go in the top-10 by a number of analysts, but a confluence of events led him to slide to the middle pick of the first round.

The Spurs have acquired the draft rights to Kawhi Leonard from the Pacers in exchange for George Hill, according to sources.

Indiana selected Leonard out of San Diego State with the 15th overall pick.

The Pacers will also send the 42nd overall pick and the draft rights to Erazem Lorbek to the Spurs.

Tony Parker said he hopes to finish his career in San Antonio.

“I just hope I stay in San Antonio,” said Parker, who is in town for Steve Nash’s charity soccer game. “I love it in San Antonio. I’ve had some great years in San Antonio. I just re-signed four years and I hope I can stay there.”

When asked specifically about possibly being dealt to Toronto or Sacramento, Parker said only: “We will see. I love it in San Antonio.”

Parker, 29, has played for the Spurs his entire 10-year NBA career after the team drafted him 28th in 2001.

Responding to an internet report about discussions the Spurs have had regarding potential trades, Spurs general manager R.C. Buford on Wednesday denied that the club actively is seeking a trade that would involve All-Star point guard Tony Parker.

“We’re not shopping anyone,” Buford said, via text message. “We’ve received calls on a lot of our guys and we’ve answered the phone.”

Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Spurs had been “in discussions” with the Raptors and Kings for a deal involving Parker.

The Spurs are attempting to move up into the lottery by trading Tony Parker.

If they are successful and complete a trade with the Kings, for example, they would select Jonas Valanciunas with the seventh overall pick, according to a report from Draft Express.

As the Spurs explore trade possibilities involving Tony Parker, the team is believed to be hoping to unload the contract of Richard Jefferson in the process.

Jefferson was re-signed by the Spurs last offseason.

The Raptors and Kings are believed to be possible landing spots for Parker.