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Pablo Torre There was a crucial aspect of the Clippers scoreboard partnership that proved difficult when it came to execution Kawhi himself apparently didnt want to do anything for these unannounced multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals he was getting allegedly to circumvent the salary cap
4.2mPablo Torre Finds Out Turns out Kawhi Leonard Steve Ballmer and the Clippers DID plant a tree for Aspiration And they raised it to the roof where their Daktronics scoreboard would live Sources say Daktronics followed Aspiration as another hidden multimillion-dollar sponsorship for Kawhi
1.8mPablo Torre Finds Out Clippers had significant influence over Daktronics when the scoreboard-maker faced financial periland when Aspiration owed Kawhi After studying earnings calls Sam Koppelman says the relationship for Daktronics might have been the greatest endorsement deal of all time
2.3mPTFO Source to Pablo People at Daktronics and the Clippers had told me about this multi-million dollar deal with Kawhi and Daktronics it wasnt coming out of their end The Clippers were technically kind of funding it It was funneling money from the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kawhi
1.6mPablo Torre Finds Out If youre trying to make sure that youre not circumventing the cap allegedly you need to make sure theres a trail of Kawhi actually doing stuff David Samson and Pablo Torre follow Kawhi Leonards paper trail from the Clippers to Daktronics to the NBAs investigation
1.8mPablo Torre Finds Out If youre trying to make sure that youre not circumventing the cap allegedly you need to make sure theres a trail of Kawhi actually doing stuff David Samson and Pablo Torre follow Kawhi Leonards paper trail from the Clippers to Daktronics to the NBAs investigation
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