John Hollinger Nate Duncan Breaking down how the Clippers clearly circumvented the NBA salary cap with Bradley Beal similar to the Gary Trent situation and lost Ben Mathurin as a result

Pablo Torre Finds Out Kawhi Leonard had a hidden multimillion-dollar sponsorship with Clippers scoreboard-maker sources tell Pablo Torre It was 1000 a way to circumvent the salary cap insider says In our investigation Daktronics Ballmer-linked crisis firm raises NBA probe

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 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

Pablo Torre on Ballmers cap circumvention This is not a first-time offense In 2015 Ballmer the Clippers get fined 250k because they tried to offer DeAndre Jordan a marketing deal with Lexus which was a team sponsor Now you have Aspiration Daktronics This is a multiple alleged offender

Shelburne They're talking about a settlement conversations have been more about this failure to supervise and the nature of the introductions that were made between the Clippers and Kawhi's people rather than direct evidence of salary cap circumvention done by Steve Ballmer

Pablo 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