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

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

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

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

Charania Kawhi Leonard reportedly did not have any knowledge of the salary cap circumvention that was going on

Steve Ballmer In an exclusive interview with Ramona Shelburne and ESPN last year following Pablo Torres reporting on the Clippers alleged salary-cap circumvention through Aspiration They conned me

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