Kawhi Leonard on Toronto gives TSN a second quick start

His talk of fan support and a family that loves the city ran far ahead of a usual TSN opening, while the channel as a whole moved at about a third of its normal daily pace.

Channel: TSN Story of September 30, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 93,678 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (6,372).

Kawhi talks incredible fan support, family loving Toronto, duplicating history with Raps

TSN posted its Kawhi Leonard video on Tuesday, and seven hours were enough for it to pass 38,000 views. The title covers three things: the support he gets from fans, how much his family loves Toronto, and the idea of duplicating history with the Raptors.

Most new uploads on the Canadian sports network's channel gather only a small slice of that over a whole first day. At its early pace, this one is heading for close to fifteen times the norm. That makes it the second TSN video in two days to break away from the routine, after the full OverDrive afternoon radio show did much the same. The rest of the channel was quiet, and so were big American sports channels such as The Rich Eisen Show and First Things First.

The history in the title is easy to place. Leonard spent a single season in Toronto, 2018-19, and it ended with the franchise's first NBA championship and a Finals MVP award for him. For a Toronto audience, it is still the defining run of the Raptors' story.

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The numbers

The figures show a video running far ahead of TSN's usual first day, on a channel that was otherwise slower than normal.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,372

this video

93,678

subscribers

973,000

total views

642,815,913

views per day

134,527

typical day: 435,494

the video

views

38,525

likes

1,084

comments

151

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Rich Eisen Show

1,140,000

First Things First

1,110,000

TSN

973,000

NFL on ESPN

906,000

TMZSports

883,000

NHL on ESPN

878,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.