Charania There has to be hard evidence that there were improper payments or improper funds given on behalf of the Clippers and Steve Ballmer not just circumstantially as presented by Pablo Torre Ballmer and Leonard have quietly contended that these are isolated situations

Pablo Torre says the NBA approached Steve Ballmer told him they found wrongdoing and tried to get him to admit to it and accept the punishment Instead Ballmer chose to fight it so the NBA turned around and found a way to settle the matter with Kawhi and the NBPA

Pablo Torre in the wake of the Clippers' severe punishment reveals there are still more pieces of the ClippersKawhi Leonard situation that he knows about and that his investigation isnt over yet There is more to come than is in the NBAs report This is not everything

PTFO The DOJ could build a criminal conspiracy case against Steve Ballmer and the Clippers for securities fraud in the Kawhi Leonard scandal per former federal prosecutors Even in 2026 a creative theory could map out a road to jail time And thats before the US president gets involved

Pablo Torre For a year Clippers through their personal relationship with media compliant outlets have tried to sell a story in which I have been lying And what those media sources should have known was that it was the opposite They were being fed a story that couldnt be rationally explained

Charania I had one executive tell me last night that the Clippers were essentially acting like a power agent brokering deals for Kawhi Leonard That's millions and millions of cash flow coming into Kawhi By mid-2021 Kawhi had pocketed tens of millions of dollars in no-show endorsement deals

Quotes from Brian Windhorst Tim MacMahon Zach Lowe Chris Mannix and Jon Krawczynski describing how Clippers acted and lied personally to the media during the investigation Krawczynski It was a behind the scenes ferocious defense that was accusatory to anyone who dared question them