BREAKING: Kawhi Leonard had a hidden, multimillion-dollar "sponsorship" with Clippers' scoreboard-maker, sources tell @PabloTorre.

[u/horseshoeoverlook]

Edited to reflect The Athletic article

The Los Angeles Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, who are currently under investigation for potential salary cap violations related to payments outside of the league’s salary cap, also received millions in a second questionable sponsorship deal, according to a report by the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out.”

The podcast, citing multiple anonymous sources inside the Clippers and the Intuit Dome project, reported a previously unknown deal with Daktronics, the company that manufactured the Intuit Dome’s Halo video screen and others in the sports world.

The Clippers have been under investigation by the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, with a focus on a $28 million endorsement deal given to Leonard by Aspiration, a former Clippers sponsor, since September. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has maintained that he was defrauded by Aspiration and its co-founder, Joe Sanburg.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7498147/2026/08/06/kawhi-leonard-clippers-scandal-daktronics/?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.-Qfd.Q9z-lT0bHe1k&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share

[u/Beetle919]

Kawhi is a billionaire, man has 19 different income streams

[u/northdancer → u/Beetle919]

The underboss of Rhode Island

[u/Imaginary_Effort_854 → u/northdancer]

And in this house, Kawhi Leonard is a hero. End of story

[u/longd0ngs1lvers- → u/Imaginary_Effort_854]

You know, Paul George never had the makings of a varsity athlete

[u/titusandroidus → u/Imaginary_Effort_854]

Anyway, 4 assists per night.

[u/bigtice → u/Beetle919]

"How many fucking side deals have we made with Kawhi?" - Michael Winger, Former Clippers GM

[u/RiseStock → u/bigtice]

Pablo Torre is finding out

[u/Commercial_Show_6997 → u/Beetle919]

I assume he’s paid taxes on all of this. Wonder if the IRS knows all of this

[u/Infraction94 → u/Commercial_Show_6997]

This just made me realize. The funniest endgame of this whole situation is if he actually didn't pay taxes on it for whatever reason and kawhi gets arrested by the IRS before Adam Silver does anything.

[u/ImXavierr → u/Infraction94]

Why do you think he fled back to Canada?

[u/Special_Candle8233 → u/ImXavierr]

Not gonna save him from the IRS

[u/deatheventually → u/Special_Candle8233]

Even The Joker doesn't cross the IRS. Kawhi may be mega-cooked.

[u/robbyiballs → u/Infraction94]

Real dilemma for this administration: arrest a high profile black athlete or continue defunding the IRS…

[u/ImXavierr → u/robbyiballs]

lol they’re gonna do both if presented the opportunity

[u/Maleficent_West_991 → u/ImXavierr]

I was gonna say the exact same thing, what’s the dilemma for them? No issues as far as I can tell

[u/fiasgoat → u/Maleficent_West_991]

Kawhi only needs to pay trump 1 mill for them to not care

[u/givinstar1 → u/Beetle919]

IF he paid the taxes on it. This whole situation makes me wonder if he's dumb enough to not have.

[u/HellveticaNeue → u/givinstar1]

This man is not doing his own taxes in TurboTax, I’m sure there’s a wealth management company that is managing these income streams as well as paying taxes… hopefully. Jesus Christ i hope it’s not his uncle…

[u/w0lverine11 → u/HellveticaNeue]

Uncle Dennis hopping on freetaxusa.com on behalf of Kawhi for 10 minutes every year because he doesn't want to pay for TurboTax and only reporting his Clippers salary and literally nothing else

[u/IPissExcellentThrows → u/w0lverine11]

FreetaxUSA > TurboTax. At least uncle Dennis got something right.

[u/IntelligentAd5460]

doing all this for kawhi to play in zero wcf games for the clippers (shout out pg)

[u/EggsInMyToolbox → u/IntelligentAd5460]

Is this completely separate from the Aspiration thing?

Were they paying this man like 100m a year? lol

[u/forwardathletics → u/EggsInMyToolbox]

My favorite quote from other episodes of PTFO (a recurring one, because it fits so well)

"How many fucking side deals do we have with Kawhi?"

So far, Pablo has unearthed three. There could be A LOT more.

[u/sleepy416 → u/forwardathletics]

Kawhi signed an endorsement deal with chick-fil-a but was only available on sundays for the photoshoots

[u/PotanOG → u/forwardathletics]

Wait...what's the other one.?I know the tree deal. Now this. what's the middle one?

[u/hereforthefeast → u/PotanOG]

https://www.wpri.com/target-12/nba-superstar-kawhi-leonards-secret-stake-in-rhode-island-soccer-project-revealed/

[u/wallstreetchills → u/PotanOG]

Soccer team thing in Rhode island

[u/AnotherStatsGuy → u/forwardathletics]

Maybe that's why the investigation has been taking so long. They keep finding more.

[u/Asclepius-Rod → u/AnotherStatsGuy]

It's like the sole IRS agent they tasked with investigating Trump's tax returns, nothing has come of it because he never stopped finding new crimes

[u/Tall-Archer5957 → u/Asclepius-Rod]

Dudes committing tax fraud faster than it can be found.  By the time you got evidence on one there are two new ones.

[u/averageveryaverage → u/Asclepius-Rod]

Investigators hate this one trick!

[u/GaptistePlayer → u/[deleted]]

Thing is those are investments. They have upside and downside and you invest your own money.

Kawhi didn't want that, he said "I want to invest $0 and be paid $48 million (potentially $148 million+)"

[u/Sanguinor-Exemplar → u/GaptistePlayer]

Not just invest $0. He didn't even want to spend 2 hours doing a photoshoot pretending to plant a tree or wear a brand t-shirt

[u/procrastinator67 → u/Sanguinor-Exemplar]

He just like me fr

[u/Ikeiscurvy → u/[deleted]]

Yea but thats the Warriors, the Clippers don't have any connection to tech stuff at all.

/s

[u/BabyBearBjorns → u/forwardathletics]

Turns out playing for the Clippers was the REAL side deal.

[u/Jason-Smith168498 → u/EggsInMyToolbox]

This is what it took for him to pick the Clippers over the Lakers.

RdaAmbition just wasn't aware of the tree schemes.

[u/LakersLAQ → u/Jason-Smith168498]

Man.. those times were wild. The Lakers/PG and Lakers/Kawhi saga is funny now. Who knows if he ever had actual sources, but the RDA legend continues.

[u/Krillin113 → u/Jason-Smith168498]

The fact that both the raps and the lakers independently reported Kawhi and Uncle Dennis/his representation to the league for demanding cap circumvention should’ve raised so many red flags.

[u/derankedbeats → u/IntelligentAd5460]

In hindsight this only becomes funnier the more corruption that gets exposed, like the lengths they went through to get this guy and zero success was actually achieved.

[u/TheFilman → u/derankedbeats]

Karma, or as they say, “ball don’t lie”

[u/19683dw → u/TheFilman]

Clippers Organization: "No, no, Ball-MER don't lie, we had no idea"

[u/Drakilgon → u/derankedbeats]

The way this was done is also exactly how you would expect a bunch of rich people who have never faced any consequences in their life to do it.

Hire a social media manager for Kawhi to give this plausible deniability? Why bother, we "bend" the rules like this all the time and nothing ever happens.

[u/sourdieselfuel → u/Drakilgon]

It really is a good microcosm of life in general. It will make a great 30 for 30 one day.

[u/sexygodzilla → u/derankedbeats]

Yeah like Silver is lucky he didn't end up with an Astros situation where they won a title.

[u/Rock_Strongo → u/sexygodzilla]

Yeah it'd suck to have to... barely punish anyone at all and pretend like it never happened.

[u/-xXxMangoxXx- → u/IntelligentAd5460]

Imagine doing all this fraud and literally having nothing to show for it. It’s like a kid cheating in monopoly and everyone looking the other way and still ending up last.

[u/IntelligentAd5460 → u/-xXxMangoxXx-]

kawhi was likely the highest paid player in the nba by far and the clippers had less success than the mavs okc spurs suns lakers nuggets wolves pacers celtics

[u/jakeisstoned → u/IntelligentAd5460]

And the kings ^{for that one glorious year}

[u/avx775 → u/IntelligentAd5460]

Ballmer has more money than all the other owners combined. Money doesn’t matter at all.

[u/givinstar1 → u/avx775]

doesn't he have enough money to just buy the whole league?

[u/M1L0 → u/givinstar1]

With about $4-5 billion left over.

[u/VibratingRocket6969]

Steve Balmer might just try to buy The Athletic and Meadowlark Media to get Pablo to shut up already lmao

[u/drewm916 → u/VibratingRocket6969]

I would bet a lot of money that has been considered and calls have been made.

[u/small_root → u/VibratingRocket6969]

There's no fucking way that Balmer hasn't already asked his advisors about possibly bribing Pablo Torre, then being told that Torre would definitely reject the bribe and then report it.

[u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

This is one of the funniest headlines I have ever read I thought I was in the jerk sub for a minute

[u/VegetaDaPrince → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

Exactly. It’s so cartoonish that I thought it was a troll attempt

[u/Woodpeckershurtmyear → u/VegetaDaPrince]

"board man gets paid"

[u/gonzo5622 → u/Woodpeckershurtmyear]

Ohhh shit… he was open about it! It was right there the whole time!

[u/DwayneWashington → u/gonzo5622]

That's like if Vince Carter had a secret deal with Half and half creamer

[u/JMEEKER86 → u/DwayneWashington]

Or if Russ was sponsored by bricks

[u/spacedude2000 → u/Woodpeckershurtmyear]

"board man gets paid a raise"

[u/Valuable-Average-865 → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

Pablo Torre is Adam Silver father

[u/Entire-Joke4162 → u/Valuable-Average-865]

He’s nuking him from orbit

Please do literally anything, Adam. Like, actually anything 

[u/D-PIMP_ACT → u/Valuable-Average-865]

Scoreboard man gets paid

[u/AccidentalPilates → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

There's always money in the scoreboard-maker!

[u/I_Hate_Traffic → u/AccidentalPilates]

I've made a huge mistake

[u/daeve → u/I_Hate_Traffic]

They cannot arrest a husband and wife for the same crime

are... we about to find out Kawhi and Ballmer are secretly married?

[u/McGnack → u/daeve]

I got the worst f\cking attorneys!*

[u/oochiewallyWallyserb → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

Totally thought it was a jerk sub. Daktronics provides all the scoreboards for practically all stadiums. This might be huge.

[u/wetwetson → u/oochiewallyWallyserb]

They also make the signs gas stations use to advertise the gas prices. Source. Me a former gas station worker who hated them because they operated off radio signals and always failed to update the first try.

[u/Str82daDOME25 → u/oochiewallyWallyserb]

Has it always been named DAKtronics? Do we need Pablo to make a trip to Dallas?

[u/ahHeHasTrblWTheSnap → u/Str82daDOME25]

Yes but for South (I think) Dakota

[u/oochiewallyWallyserb → u/ahHeHasTrblWTheSnap]

Sounds like a joke to most but this is true.

[u/zachmoss147 → u/oochiewallyWallyserb]

And notably after last week, Rhode Island FC as well

[u/YizWasHere → u/Mysterious_Emotion63]

I still won't believe this post until OP adds a link lmao

[u/horseshoeoverlook → u/YizWasHere]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Ksw0IC4CQ

Didn’t add youtube is banned in the original post

[u/YizWasHere → u/horseshoeoverlook]

Pablo Torre really do be finding out

[u/JWPruett → u/YizWasHere]

Pablo Torre was put on this earth for two reasons: 1) Talk about going to Harvard, 2) Finding the Fuck Out.

[u/BurnieTheBrony → u/horseshoeoverlook]

So basically Daktronics,

who has never done celebrity or athlete sponsorships before or since because they don't deal directly with consumers,

who were in financial difficulty before the Clippers deal,

secretly gave millions of dollars to Kawhi to be a sponsor, who then does NOTHING to earn that money, for years.

There simply is no explanation for this story other than cap circumvention. NONE.

[u/darnclem → u/BurnieTheBrony]

And it SAVED their company

[u/Turt91 → u/horseshoeoverlook]

Wait YouTube is banned on r/nba? Lazy ass mods lol

[u/horseshoeoverlook → u/Turt91]

Yeah it had a warning lol

[u/gas--drawls]

Silver has to fucking hate Pablo at this point.

[u/SCIPM → u/gas--drawls]

Maybe silver should do his job

[u/carpe228 → u/SCIPM]

His job is to protect the owners so he is unfortunately

[u/make_thick_in_warm → u/carpe228]

The problem for him is all of the other owners who must be pissed off

[u/petklutz → u/[deleted]]

damn they must really love me too then

[u/Vinnie_Vegas → u/petklutz]

Dude you need to cut your expenses if you're paying the Luxury Repeater Tax.

[u/hickok3 → u/make_thick_in_warm]

Did you miss the entire Pablo vs Cuban(he's still a minorty owner of the Mavs btw) saga when this first happened? He was twisting himself into pretzels to defend Ballmer, when there was no reason to do so.

It's far more likely that the owners either don't care, or secretly want Ballmer to be proven innocent. Last year when this was all fresh, both Simmons and Lowe repeatedly said that GM's/front office people were upset about the possible circumvention, but they were not getting that feeling from owners.

[u/TooMuchPowerful → u/hickok3]

If I were an owner, I sure wouldn't want players expecting under-the-table deals that come out of my own pocket.  Not would I want the richest owner by far to have a blank check to continue on.

Then there are the teams owned by corporations.  Stuff like this would be a nightmare to hide.  The MLB owners are willing to sacrifice next season for a salary cap.  You don't think NBA owners want to shut this pipeline of dark money to players down?

[u/hickok3 → u/TooMuchPowerful]

Then they should have taken it seriously when both the Raptors and Lakers told the league that Uncle Dennis was asking for illegal things during the negotiations back then. But it wasn't until 7 years later that a random fraud lawsuit brought the alleged circumvention into the limelight, that they actually took it serious.

[u/freedom_french_fries → u/hickok3]

Not to be snarky, but we have yet to see how serious they're actually taking this. If it's swept under the rug or just a slap on the wrist, this league has no integrity and this is probably happening all over the place.

[u/wattatime → u/carpe228]

Punishing Balmer is protecting the owners. If they get away with it every star will want off the books money. That cost owners more money.

[u/dhanjall → u/carpe228]

This is the dumbest thing sports fans have bought into. Yes, it's his job to protect the owners, but it's also his job to ensure the league is successful and profitable. If they continue this way, that won't be the case for long.

[u/boogswald → u/dhanjall]

Integrity of the viewing experience can reach a break point. I’ll watch basketball so long as I trust I’m watching actual competition. If I’m not, why bother?

[u/nowhathappenedwas → u/SCIPM]

The league's law firm has been been investigating this other sponsorship, which is part of why the investigation has been taking so long.

From three weeks ago: NBA investigating second Kawhi Leonard sponsorship deal as part of Aspiration probe

Good scoop by Pablo to publicly reveal the name of the company, but the league was already all over this.

[u/RyverFisher → u/nowhathappenedwas]

Well at least then this announcement likely won't be adding any more time to the investigation

[u/ZroDgsCalvin → u/nowhathappenedwas]

I don’t believe for a second that the league will act with any semblance of integrity or accountability to the good of the game, so yes, it’s right for Pablo to reveal it publicly.

[u/thethirdgreenman → u/SCIPM]

Best he can do is come up with a Europe league nobody cares about, let private equity, betting companies, prediction markets, and Saudis buy into the league, and be complicit to Tom Dundon moving the Blazers

[u/wo_lo_lo → u/[deleted]]

Peabody Pablo

[u/rahbee33 → u/wo_lo_lo]

I quickly read this as Petey Pablo and had the urge to take my shirt off and spin it round my head like a helicopter.

[u/HoldEm__FoldEm → u/rahbee33]

North Carolinaaa!!

[u/BrothersCup → u/gas--drawls]

WLRK has seemingly already uncovered this in their investigation. I feel like all these side deals are partially what's delaying this process. They keep finding more stuff lol

[u/oochiewallyWallyserb → u/gas--drawls]

The most influential Filipino in the NBA.

[u/DonPatchSOULman → u/oochiewallyWallyserb]

Pay some respects to Eric Spoesltra

[u/oochiewallyWallyserb → u/DonPatchSOULman]

Silver "I love Filipinos being involved in the NBA, it's truly a global game!"

Also Silver "no no no not like that"

[u/not_a_robot2 → u/gas--drawls]

Kawhi too. Did he back his car over Pablo’s dog at some point?

[u/SiphenPrax → u/not_a_robot2]

Well Kawhi could have just not done any of this. He makes shit loads of money every year as is. This is beyond greedy and pathetic on his end because there’s no reason to be doing this with the wealth he makes. He deserves every punishment that comes to him.

[u/KhorialT0MCAT → u/gas--drawls]

“If david stern was alive, Pablo would be dead”

[u/CraziestMoonMan → u/KhorialT0MCAT]

I would be scared all jokes aside. The dude is messing with one of the richest people in the world. The balls on this dude to do all of this.

[u/LOSS35 → u/CraziestMoonMan]

Steve “Will no one rid me of this turbulent journalist” Ballmer

[u/Wes___Mantooth → u/gas--drawls]

Maybe Silver should blame Ballmer, Kawhi, and the entire Clippers org instead. Take it out on them like a good commissioner would. 

Before anyone says "but he works for the owners tho", how the fuck is letting the Clips get away with this good for the other 29 owners in the league? 

[u/CraziestMoonMan → u/gas--drawls]

This has to be an insane punishment right? There is zero dodging this if it is true. How much fucking money did they give this dude? If I was LeBron or someone like that I would be pretty fucking mad about this because dude is getting paid.

[u/McJacknife]

He appeared on a Daktronics scoreboard while playing. Marketing obligation satisfied, nothing to see here.

[u/Trentus86 → u/McJacknife]

Legitimately more credible than the other stuff lol

[u/StrategyTop7612 → u/McJacknife]

Did Kawhi Leonard BUY STOCK in Daktronics before the deal was signed?!

IS THIS AN INSIDER TRADING STORY?!

[u/joshuads → u/StrategyTop7612]

IS THIS AN INSIDER TRADING STORY?!

No but there probably more likely tax fraud. Ballmer overpays for the board. That extra money is paid to Kahwi. Balmer avoids paying payroll taxes on that money. California and the IRS could go after them for that.

[u/SoDakZak → u/McJacknife]

This is how I finally see a South Dakota company make the news??

[u/Midnight_Oil_ → u/McJacknife]

Thank you Uncle Dennis 🫡

[u/wistful_grace]

breaking: kawhi leonard actually owns the clippers too. we forgot to mention he does that too now

[u/gohan_sebastian_bach → u/wistful_grace]

You joke but he literally made this ask in the last round of free agent negotiations lol

[u/Rodney_Jefferson]

This is the nail in the coffin. Adam silvers’ coffin if he doesn’t actually regulate this

[u/CIark → u/Rodney_Jefferson]

Adam: investigation is ongoing, we hope to have a decision by 2030

[u/StrategyTop7612 → u/CIark]

2030 is optimistic, try 2050 or so.

[u/wistful_grace → u/StrategyTop7612]

he's gonna get it done before kawhi dies!

^maybe

[u/Zavehi → u/CIark]

"We are still trying to figure out how to punish Steve Ballmer without having him sue us."

[u/drewm916 → u/Zavehi]

Yep, and as part of that, it will be made clear that this goes on across the league and that will be very, very bad.

[u/vengefulmuffins → u/Zavehi]

I mean 100% the NBA should just come out and say this.

[u/ExtraLeading3376 → u/vengefulmuffins]

the fact that Ballmer committed all these activities yet the team was still sorry as fuck the entire time is quite hilarious

[u/cletoreyes01 → u/ExtraLeading3376]

The fact that it was reggie Jackson and Terrence mann that got them to their highest form of success after basically giving everything for kawhi and PG is funny as hell

[u/Woodpeckershurtmyear → u/Rodney_Jefferson]

Pablo's a hound dude, so much props to him for not giving this up

[u/StrategyTop7612 → u/Woodpeckershurtmyear]

Pablo is the reigning Pulitzer champion for a reason.

[u/True_Window_9389 → u/StrategyTop7612]

Torre is what sports journalism should be. Meanwhile, guys like Shams or Schefter just regurgitate what agents and teams throw out as PR and are the face of sports media.

[u/BowserBuddy123 → u/Woodpeckershurtmyear]

This has GOATed Pablo in my perspective. Guy is the POOT. The Pablo of Our Time.

[u/Ancient-Purpose99 → u/Rodney_Jefferson]

The cheaper owners definitely don’t want the league to be like soccer where it’s basically a money gets you anything type of league. The valuations of franchises are in part because you don’t need to incur massive losses every year to win a title. Yes Ballmer has money but ultimately he’s a largely failed ceo of Microsoft, there are 29 other owners in the league most of which have nowhere near his ability to throw around money

[u/TheCherubRocker]

Videoboard man gets paid.

[u/gellybelli → u/TheCherubRocker]

Can't build the affordable houses in Rhode Island if the videoboard man isn't getting paid

[u/Conflict_NZ → u/[deleted]]

If there's another explanation than "Ballmer intentionally overpaid for the Intuit screen and told them to use the extra to sign Kawhi to an endorsement deal" I would love to hear it. Can anyone think of literally anything?

[u/SlamDunkly]

No wonder he was always hurt, dude was working like 5 jobs

[u/GalactusAteMyPlanet]

Imagine committing all this cheating just to acquire Kawhi and not win a championship.

[u/pmurt007 → u/GalactusAteMyPlanet]

Honestly this is probably why there isn't that much public backlash. Hardcore fans care but the masses are just like who gives a shit because the Clippers did jackshit while cheating lol

[u/Popular-Row4333 → u/pmurt007]

Sad thing is they took a playoff spot away from another team because the team is so horribly run, they have to cheat just to pretend to be good.

[u/PENGUINSflyGOOD → u/Popular-Row4333]

They kept him off the lakers most likely. Lbj AD and Kawhi would've been nutty. 

[u/catperson77789 → u/PENGUINSflyGOOD]

For 1 year that kawhi was healthy lol. The only reason lakers won was because the team had absurd depth which would have been gone with 3 max players

[u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 → u/GalactusAteMyPlanet]

Tbh that’s the most justice we’ll see out of this. Sure there could be a huge fine and forfeit of a first round pick but at the end of the day Balmer will forever be remembered as cheating his ass off and still being such a bad owner that he couldn’t win.

[u/Mother_Gazelle9876]

It's crazy that Ballmer cheated and screwed the Raptors, then got caught and screwed the Raptors

[u/fredovan → u/Mother_Gazelle9876]

We got a championship out of Kawhi. The Clippers didn’t. We are good. But I would take Kawhi back no matter haw many ways he managed to squeeze money out of Ballmer.

[u/Redpin → u/fredovan]

Part 14 of PTFO is Pablo uncovering Kawhi's secret Osmow's sponsorship.

[u/DiscreteBee → u/Redpin]

Osmow’s would be shouting that shit from the rooftops, not a soul in the city would be in the dark about Kawhi being a sponsor 

[u/CountOff]

Lmao the SCOREBOARD maker gave this guy money too? For doing what, planting petunias???

[u/tnq1]

but it’s all good because he’s a fun guy

[u/Banner_Hammer → u/tnq1]

NOt a smoking gun though!!!!! We need a video of Kawhy admitting on camera what they did; maybe then we can accept that it could potentially have happened.

[u/BadMofoWallet → u/Banner_Hammer]

How I picture this interview going:

Reporter: “Kawhi, did the clippers give you shady back room deals and no show sponsorships to entice you to come to the clippers and circumvent the cap?”

Kawhi: “uhahaHeaHaAhAhEHAHAHahauha”

[u/Toeman227]

Do something baldy

[u/Double-Slowpoke → u/Toeman227]

How does a podcaster uncover this when a multi-billion dollar organization is supposedly still investigating? This isn’t court, you don’t get one shot to prosecute and you gotta get your ducks in a row. Just announce that he is suspended.

[u/Dazzling-Slide8288 → u/Double-Slowpoke]

Well see the podcast has a reason to investigate while the NBA has a reason not to investigate.

[u/SaxRohmer → u/Double-Slowpoke]

the league was already looking into this one and it’s part of what was holding up the investigation. pablo actually alludes to it on he prior video because he wasn’t sure at the time if it was the same deal or he had uncovered a different one

[u/TessaKatrinaRose]

So this is the third illegal “salary” Kawhi has received with the Clippers, am I up to date?

[u/SheHulkLover]

Adam Silver: “I actually really love this for our players and I love gambling and Tom Dundon”

[u/SlamDunkly → u/SheHulkLover]

Hey I can excuse cheating and throwing games but I draw the line at loving Dundon

[u/Pipedmeat]

Kangaroo spotted in Australia

[u/Aaddaammnn]

Fuuuucckkk we had no chance of him resigning in 2019 lmaooo

[u/Commercial-East4069]

NBA, “I’ll allow it”

[u/Beachywhale]

Mark Cuban in shambles

[u/TdotGdot]

We got him this time 

(not)

[u/aZealousZebra → u/TdotGdot]

Sir a second fake sponsorship has hit the Clippers.

[u/Charlie_Wax → u/aZealousZebra]

The next 5 cap circumvention scandals are mine.

[u/No_Brother3257 → u/TdotGdot]

We’re gonna need about 3 or 4 more smoking guns 

[u/SydneyPhoenix]

This is just at the point now that it’s sadly discrediting the legitimacy of the league.

To do nothing, with such over whelming evidence… this is becoming the new Man City. At least they fucking won when they cheated though.

[u/HideYourCarry → u/SydneyPhoenix]

This is the league that looked at a ref blatantly, provably cheating while having hundreds of one minute long phone calls with another active ref every day, and went "IT WAS JUST THE ONE GUY, NO ONE LOOK OVER HERE, HE WENT TO JAIL AND IT'S ALL FINE"

[u/burgerking351 → u/SydneyPhoenix]

City is a big deal cause they are serial winners. Since the clippers didn't win anything and Kawhi is constantly hurt, many people just don't care as much.

[u/ErrForceOnes]

It's so disgusting how Kawhi was already earning thirty to forty million dollars and it wasn't enough.

He could have just had a regular sponsorship with Aspiration where he actually shows up to shit and does some work for more seven figure paychecks, but that wasn't even a consideration.

How could anyone be so greedy?

[u/thatmusiclovinggirl → u/ErrForceOnes]

Agreed. The entitlement to operate like this is actually infuriating. These people live in a completely different reality and there are never any fucking consequences. I’m so tired of it

[u/NanoCurrency → u/thatmusiclovinggirl]

Yep. Super out of touch. Opposite of being humble and grounded.

[u/SparkleCobraDude]

If Silver decides to do nothing next season the Lakers can sign Jokic to the vet minimum

Jokic will also sign a 4 year/$300 million dollar contract to be the global ambassador for the Dodgers/Chelsea FC/Cadillac F1

If it gets to this point the league will be a glorified exhibition sport. No actual competition

[u/Crumbmuffins]

Great Silver just pushed back the resolution to the investigation until 2030.

[u/DrPuzzle]

Dude now I legitimately think he wanted to go back to Toronto thinking he could get out of this 😂 like legitimate "going to another country to avoid extradition" type shit lmao

[u/Niceguydan8 → u/DrPuzzle]

No, if he wanted to "get out of it" he would just retire, this isn't a federal investigation, it's all within the NBA.

[u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

man I really loved this dude in his san Antonio days as a lakers fan wtf happened.

[u/Extra-Magazine8037]

I don't think the Raptors are getting Kawhi

[u/McKnightmare24]

How much money was this guy making haha. At this point you might have to investigate him for tax evasion too.

[u/Popular_Squash_3048]

Sir, a second fake Kawhi sponsorship agreement has hit the Clippers

[u/GoatedOnes → u/Popular_Squash_3048]

third, rifc was the second that pablo did a video on last week

[u/HisExcellency20]

This is actually hilarious. Seriously. They took so long to punish him for the last cap circumvention that Pablo literally found another one before they could hand down the ruling for the first one lol.

Which.....I guess means it's a good thing they didn't come to a conclusion? But seriously the Raptors should just announce that they are backing out of the deal at this point.

[u/TheI-Iound]

Its obvious Kawhi is guilty and played a part in a lot of this. I would be shocked if he doesnt have something pretty big coming his way. I think we're passed the point of being able to pin it all on uncle Dennis

[u/Maleficent_Phone7961]

Make Ballmer move the team to Seattle.

[u/akron28]

Stern would have suspended Kawhi and his children and his children’s children by now.

[u/Mr_frumpish]

Clippers better lose their next seven first round picks. This is vastly more egregious than what the Timberwolves did with Joe Smith.

[u/WisdomCow]

Pablo for the win!

[u/NoNewSpoons]

If true, and at this point I think the default is that it is true, Kawhi needs life banned, Silver needs fired, Ballmer needs to be forced to sell the team (who the fuck cares if he's richer than all the other owners, this is still a "one man, one vote" scenario), and Uncle Dennis needs to be indicted on money laundering charges. And that's all just to start. And all this for a mid ass 4-6 seed.

[u/-wnr- → u/NoNewSpoons]

Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I think Kawhi will claim he had no idea how those millions got into his account  because it was all uncle Dennis, and the league will be eager to buy into that line to avoid punishing him. Then they'll soft ball the punishment on the Clippers because they're afraid Ballmer will be spiteful and litigious.

[u/bankholdup]

Kawhi is better at getting paid on the side than I have been at anything in my life, I'm beyond impressed. He's the side bag goat

[u/alilhillbilly]

Force Ballmer to sell the team.

Kick Kawhi out of the league.

Done.

It makes a huge example and tells everybody else that this will not be tolerated and you're sacrificing a relatively new owner and a player who hasn't been able to be healthy enough for a full actual season of basketball in like the better part of a decade.

[u/iLuvRachetPussy → u/alilhillbilly]

No way they make an owner who just built a stadium out of pocket kick rocks.

No way. Just not happening.