It has been clear for a year or more that the Los Angeles Clippers knew they were fast approaching the end of the Kawhi Leonard/James Harden era. The Clippers have been looking to pivot, and the report this week of the Clippers’ frustration with Leonard fits the existing pattern. It’s not a coincidence that the team is set up to …
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So, if the hammer drops, what does it look like? That’s the big question of the week, even if we may not get an answer for months, as the slow drip of circumstantial evidence continues to accumulate that the LA Clippers might have engaged in brazen salary cap circumvention by funding a no-show endorsement deal for All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard …
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The relationship between the Los Angeles Clippers, the dubious carbon-credit company Aspiration, and Kawhi Leonard sure looks like salary cap circumvention, as journalist Pablo Torre has convincingly laid out on his podcast. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer had personally invested $50 million in Aspiration; Leonard was later offered a $28 million sponsorship by Aspiration that required virtually nothing of him, and …
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Kawhi Leonard had a lucrative no-show endorsement deal with Aspiration, a now bankrupt environmental company partially backed by Clippers owner Steve Ballmer according to a bombshell report from Pablo Torre. According to Torre, Leonard signed a deal worth $28 million over four years with the company. And it might have been even more. Another new report from John Karalis of …
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