Kawhi Leonard Investigation Contract: Clippers calls accusations of escape from the “absurd” salary ceiling
Los Angeles clippers repel against a report accusing them of engaging in bypassing the salary ceiling With the star striker Kawhi Leonard. The accusation follows from a legal file in March 2025 aspiration, a sustainable development company now struck which had received $ 50 million in funding from the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer.
According to investigation journalist Pablo Torre, the aspiration would pay 28 million dollars in cash in Leonard between 2022-25, as long as he played for the Clippers. A former employee of aspirations of the Finance Department declared on the Podcast of Torre that the Leonard agreement “was to bypass the salary ceiling”.
The Clippers, in a statement published on Wednesday evening, firmly denied the assertions.
“Neither the Clippers nor Steve Ballmer bypass the salary ceiling,” the Clippers wrote in a press release. “The idea that Steve has invested in the aspiration in order to complete money to Kawhi Leonard is absurd. Steve has invested because the aspiration co -founders have presented themselves as committed to doing good by their customers while protecting the environment.”
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In the press release, the team said that neither Ballmer nor the clippers knew no activity inappropriate by aspiration or his co-founder until the government launched its investigation. Aspiration, the team sponsor for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons before defecting his contract, filed for bankruptcy in March. Its co-founder Joseph Sanberg recently pleaded in a fraud case of $ 243 million.
The Clippers stressed that Ballmer and the franchise had no surveillance of Leonard’s independent approval agreement with the aspiration.
“To say the opposite, it is false,” said the press release.
The Clippers said that they would welcome the NBA investigation linked to the aspiration and will also continue to cooperate with the police in its investigation into “manifestly fraudulent activity” of the aspiration.
The NBA said on Wednesday afternoon through a spokesperson that he was “aware of this morning media report concerning the clippers” and “begins an investigation”.
