Top NBA clips for Thursday 3rd September 2026

Steven Adams who has earned 171 million says he lives in a small studio apartment in Houston and aside from practice keeps a sleeping bag in his room for lying down for long periods spending his time playing video games or plugging a practice guitar into the same amp hes used for 13 years

9:59am 1.00m 12,621

Dan Patrick Have you received an apology from ESPN Pablo Torre I don't expect an apology I'm a big boy They got fed a story by the people who are lying this whole time and I got implicated as a result of it

7:23pm 2.57m 11,051

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

6:28pm 1.14m 10,796

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

10:40pm 51s 9,845

Pablo Torre says theres no way Kawhi Leonard didnt know what was going onIm a big fan of treating adults like adults Kawhi Leonard is 35 years old and we have documents Aspiration contract in fact 28 million contract in which his signature is on it We have the money flows

4:20pm 2.26m 7,886

Brian Windhorst Kawhi Leonard is an unmitigated winner in this He collected tens of millions of dollars in endorsement deals and he was fined 700000 in restitution It's the greatest investment you could ever make

10:22am 29s 6,826

Tony Kornheiser You went on this show a million times and you said they're not going to touch Steve Ballmer Well they touched him He's done Two weeks ago there was an ESPN report that was all over this network that the league found nothing

8:03pm 2.27m 6,454

Pablo Torre This is a story built on journalism The reason we've been reporting it is because we think this story is fundamentally important We think it's important to bring people what is not being told to them otherwise by some of the wealthiest most powerful people in America

9:58am 2.77m 4,842

Pablo Torre on the Clippers' punishment I thought that it could've been more

1:37pm 1.57m 3,528

Steph Curry on growing up in Toronto It was different I love the city So diverse Theres so much culture there The Raptors that was in the middle of insanity so every game was unreal Its just too cold

7:41am 1.89m 3,259

Zach Lowe The Clippers are somewhere beyond fucked As recently as yesterday a front office exec from another team said 'Hey the Clippers are quietly positioning themselves in case Jokic wants to leave Denver with lots of cap space and LA and all that' Forget that This team is dead

11:22am 1.15m 3,169

Pablo was asked for a statement after ESPN published its article but they left it out of their reporting I just wonder WHY it happened like this It sure seems to me that they got fed a story by the people who were lying to everyone this entire time and I got implicated as a result of it

1:02pm 1.09m 2,031

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

10:16am 57s 1,856

2021 Kawhi Leonard re-signs with Clippers for 4 years 176 million on the books reassures Clippers fans he plans to stay I'm here I'm here to be a Clipper I'm not going to another team unless something you know drastic happens

1:55pm 7s 855

Wade said that when he got older he found his credit was terrible despite barely borrowing money He later learned his father had been using Wades credit to take on debt while the system failed to distinguish them simply because they shared the same name

9:29pm 1.14m 803

Skinny Jokic hits a nasty fade away over Anthony Davis

6:51pm 28s 645

Paul George on why negotiations with the Clippers fell through I never wanted to leave LA The first initial deal was I thought kind of disrespectful 2 years 60 million Im like Just give me what Kawhi got

12:54pm 4.50m 491

Donovan Mitchell says out of all the games in his NBA career Game 1 vs the Knicks is the one he wants back We definitely gave them that game

9:48pm 1.35m 169

Thaddeus Young says even though the Clippers lost 5 draft picks theyre still not in a bad positionBecause they made three trades before this actually happened Which makes me believe also they knew something was coming

3:40pm 4.12m 134

41222 Patrick Beverley celebrates with the play-in win over his former team the LA Clippers

8:59pm 1.60m 118

Lawrence Frank isn't impressed with Rodney Stuckey's bench attire

9:47pm 13s 73

Wachtell on why the investigation took so long This effort was challenged by the approach of the Clippers and their outside counsel who at times delayed in responding to requests for information and operated in an adversarial or obfuscatory manner that slowed the ability to gather the facts

2:00am 2.99m 61

David Samson Steve Ballmer in this situation when you're suspended from league and team activities that means he doesn't go to owners' meetings he can't be around the team he can't go into his own arena This is a full one year suspension

11:44pm 2.95m 42

Jeff Teague talks about having BEEF with Lawrence Frank

9:37pm 42s 37

Brian Windhorst There's a lot of people that made a lot of assumptions about Adam Silver along the way This is as big of a punishment has ever been doled out in the NBA He has been presumed to be soft on crime to a certain certain extend That's not something you can say today

12:22am 53s 16

Kendrick Perkins Kawhi Leonard is one of the worst free agent signings in NBA history He has set the Clippers back 10 to 15 years I don't know where they go from here December 2 2025

10:38pm 0s 9

Stephen A Smith My condolences to the Clippers How stupid can you be

10:24pm 5s 0

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

1:31pm 57s 0

Stephen A Smith to Pablo Torre I'm not asking you to reveal sources we know better than that I'm not Jaylen Brown okay I'm not asking you to show your source

3:30pm 7s 0