Pablo Torre continues to find out things about the convoluted relationship between Kawhi Leonard, Steve Ballmer, the Los Angeles Clippers and the now-bankrupt green bank Aspiration. In the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, the host tells Dan Le Batard about even more investments made by the Clippers into Aspiration at some very curious times.
Torre has bank records showing investments made by the Clippers into Aspiration, the company who had given Clippers star Kawhi Leonard a no-show job worth upwards of $28 million, in exchange for carbon credits. These investments were made just before and on the exact dates that Leonard received payments from Aspiration.
EXCLUSIVE: Two weeks before Kawhi’s first “no-show” payday, the Clippers bailed out Aspiration with a $21M deal signed by the team CFO.
(Yes, @mcuban sent @PabloTorre down this rabbit hole: “He literally described exactly what they did,” a source says, “to circumvent the cap.”) pic.twitter.com/5lQNMLm8Or
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) September 18, 2025
The total value of Clippers investments in Apsiration now stands at $118 million. And most of them also came at a time when no one else was investing in the company, which is exactly what Mark Cuban told Torre might have happened if Ballmer and the Clippers really were doing something shady with Aspiration during an appearance on a previous podcast episode.
Really, you should just watch or listen to the entire episode yourself because Torre exhaustively explains why Adam Silver should be familiar with the company, refutes a number of Cuban’s talking points and shares more interviews with sources that were inside the company. There’s even a courtroom reenactment.
