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Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer’s defense in the Kawhi Leonard salary cap circumvention and “no show” endorsement scandal has been “plausible deniability.” Ballmer said he was “duped” like other investors when he put $50 million into the green bank company Aspiration (a company that had become a $300 million Clippers team sponsor back in 2021, but now is bankrupt with its …

Kawhi Leonard has made no shortage of headlines in recent weeks. But according to Bill Simmons, the stories may have also come as news to Leonard too. On the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ringer founder discussed the recent saga surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers star stemming from Pablo Torre’s reporting on an alleged no-show endorsement deal …

In March 2023, LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested almost $10 million into financial technology and sustainability services company Aspiration, according to legal filings reviewed by The Athletic and corroborated by a former Aspiration executive. The previously unreported investment came 18 months after Ballmer’s $50 million investment in the firm now at the heart of an NBA investigation into whether …

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Sep 11, 2025, 12:00 PM ET A limited partner with the LA Clippers reportedly sent nearly $2 million to a now-bankrupt company that allegedly gave Kawhi Leonard an endorsement deal for a “no-show job” less than 10 days before the star forward was paid $1.75 million by the company, the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” reported Thursday. The company, Aspiration, …

On Wednesday, after a meeting with all the NBA owners, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sounded cautious, patient and a little bit zen about the investigation into the Clippers trying to circumvent the salary cap with team sponsor Aspiration. “I’m a big believer in due process and fairness, and we need to now let the investigation run its course,” Silver said. …

NEW YORK — Adam Silver was far from rattled. In fact, sitting in the second row of the same midtown Manhattan ballroom where the NBA commissioner has routinely addressed a media audience following Board of Governors meetings, I was struck by how Silver took the podium behind that blue, white and red logo as if there hasn’t been deafening noise …

In December 2022, Kawhi Leonard reportedly received a quarterly payment for his endorsement deal with Aspiration days after Los Angeles Clippers vice chairman Dennis J. Wong made an investment as the company was heading toward bankruptcy. On the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out (starts at 22:05 mark), newly obtained documents obtained by Pablo Torre showed Leonard received a …

In December 2022, Aspiration, a San Francisco-based environmental firm, was running out of money. Employees, including executives, were laid off. Outgoing payments were on hold, including to the firm’s expensive endorsement partner, LA Clippers star Kawhi Leonard. That same month, according to the latest allegations made on the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast that aired Thursday morning, Clippers minority owner …

The funny thing about the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement is that with every CBA renewal, you can guarantee that history will repeat itself in one crucially important way: Every new CBA is first and foremost a response to the errors, omissions and unintended consequences of the previous one. You can see that in all manner of places in the 2023 …