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Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard was reportedly paid $28 million by a company funded by team owner Steve Ballmer that helped the Clippers evade the NBA salary cap, according to a report by Pablo Torre in 2025. Nearly a full year after the NBA launched a formal investigation into the matter, the it issued its findings Wednesday, docking the …

The Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the salary cap to funnel extra money to Kawhi Leonard for his commitment to the team, and they were caught red-handed. The NBA dropped the hammer on the Clippers on Wednesday after a one-year investigation into the allegations first uncovered by journalist Pablo Torre. The NBA decided to dock the Clippers five future first-round draft …

The Houston Rockets and Amen Thompson have reportedly agreed to a five-year, $208 million contract extension, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. The extension for Thompson, the fourth overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, also includes a 10% trade kicker. He is entering the final season of a four-year rookie scale contract he signed in 2023 and will earn $12.3 …

We begin ranking the individual tiers within SunsRank today with the depth pieces. I’ll start by acknowledging that this isn’t a perfect science, and it certainly isn’t a perfect polling system. There will be players you voted for in a different tier. That’s fine. I’m going off the majority of the voting for each individual player. So if there is …

I spent Wednesday evening racking my brain for a way to combine “karma” and “Kawhi” but the best I came up with was “Kawharma” which sounds more like Middle Eastern meat cooked on a spit. It’s still apropos as Kawhi Leonard is cooked. Shams Charania posted the news as soon as it broke: “BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the …

Following last year’s historic run to the NBA championship, there’s little a critic can say to Jalen Brunson. New York’s captain averaged 28.4 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 6.1 assists en route to a Knicks championship, hitting clutch shots and stringing together all-time performances along the way. With training camp still a month out, fans have had to occupy their free time with the …

Just 71 days ago, the Los Angeles Clippers selected star All-American guard Keaton Wagler with the No. 5 overall pick. A lot has changed in the roughly two months since they made that pick, however, and right now is not a great time to be a Clippers fan. Advertisement There have been speculations for a long time that the team’s …

The NBA has handed down one of the biggest punishments in the history of the league to the Los Angeles Clippers after finding that the franchise circumvented salary cap rules when it courted Kawhi Leonard as a free agent. The league has stripped the team of five first-round draft picks, giving the team no natural pick in the draft from …

When Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for $2bn in 2014, it was widely regarded as a coup for the NBA. Not only is Ballmer one of the richest men in the world – worth an estimated $152.7bn – but his passion and enthusiasm for the sport stood in stark contrast to the team’s embattled former owner. Donald Sterling, …

“If Player X gets a jumper”… Ben Simmons Disease. If pigs could fly, we’d avoid walking under them, for what should be obvious reasons. If Amen Thompson gets a jumper, he’ll be anywhere from a top-20 to top-1 player in the NBA, depending on whether “get a jumper” means “hit 35% of his two three-point attempts per game” or “hit …

The NBA’s nearly year-long investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers has ended with one of the harshest punishments in league history, sending the franchise back to territory last seen during Minnesota’s Joe Smith salary-cap scandal 25 seasons ago. In the words of Mark Cuban, “Congrats Pablo.” Advertisement The League has concluded that the Clippers violated salary-cap circumvention rules by facilitating …

Clippers fans, please join the rest of L.A. in booing Kawhi Leonard. With your whole chests, let him hear it, the entitled scoundrel. Greedy villain. Selfish charlatan. The Clippers’ star and his team found the one NBA franchise that was desperate enough to allegedly acquiesce to all of his out-of-bounds demands, to break the rules if only he would please, …

The NBA handed down sweeping penalties to the Clippers, owner Steve Ballmer, team executives and star Kawhi Leonard following an investigation into allegations the group circumvented the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The Clippers said in a statement that they “vehemently reject the NBA’s findings” and vowed to challenge them. Leonard issued a statement saying he had no direct knowledge of …

Facing a mountain of evidence, the NBA had to bring the hammer down hard on Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the Clippers in the salary cap circumvention case involving Kawhi Leonard and former team sponsor Aspiration, among others. If not, 29 other team owners would have gotten the message that the price for circumventing the salary cap was worth it. …

The NBA has dropped the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. After a yearlong investigation into salary-cap circumvention involving Kawhi Leonard, the league is stripping the Clippers of five first-round picks and fining owner Steve Ballmer $30 million, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. Advertisement Ballmer, general managers Lawrence Frank and president of business operations Gillian Zucker also received suspensions. Leonard …

NBA star Kawhi Leonard issued a statement on Wednesday, Sept. 2, after the league announced significant punishments for the Los Angeles Clippers and team owner Steve Ballmer. The NBA announced the Clippers circumvented the salary cap with its alleged facilitation of “no-show” endorsement deals for Leonard, their former star forward, the league announced after an 11-month investigation concluded. Here’s how the star …

The NBA dropped the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers for violating the league’s salary cap circumvention rules by “initiating off-court income opportunities” for star forward Kawhi Leonard. The Clippers are forced to forfeit five first-round NBA Draft picks, are fined $30 million to owner Steve Ballmer, and both Ballmer, Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker, and President of Basketball Operations …

In the hunt to be the first American to end the Grand Slam drought, Frances Tiafoe is hoping to channel the Knicks’ championship energy while he’s in Flushing Meadows.  Tiafoe advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open, defeating Rei Sakamoto in three sets in front of noted celebrity Knicks fan Ben Stiller on Wednesday night, and was asked …

The Los Angeles Clippers are not going down easy after the NBA dropped the hammer on them Wednesday. The Clippers’ organization was stripped of five first-round NBA draft picks and was fined $30 million as a result of the NBA’s verdict that they violated the league’s salary cap circumvention rules by “initiating off-court income opportunities” for superstar forward Kawhi Leonard. Advertisement Los …

The Los Angeles Clippers “vehemently reject” the NBA’s findings that they circumvented the salary cap with their alleged facilitation of “no-show” endorsement deals for their former star forward Kawhi Leonard, the team said in a statement on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The Clippers’ statement came soon after the NBA announced significant punishments for the team, owner Steve Ballmer and Leonard following …

The Clippers received one of the harshest punishments in NBA history. Kawhi Leonard did not. Despite being found in violation of the same salary-cap rules, he escaped with comparatively little damage. Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard responds to questions during NBA Finals press conferences at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, Sunday, June 9, 2019. EPA That contrast has become the …

Nearly a year to the day that Pablo Torre published his first episode reporting on the Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention saga with a company called Aspiration, the league has finally doled out punishment to both Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers certainly came away worse for wear than the All-NBA forward they signed back in 2019. Per Shams …

The Warriors’ search for another star alongside Stephen Curry has produced a growing collection of almosts. The latest name to add to the list is Jaren Jackson Jr. ESPN’s Anthony Slater revealed Golden State explored acquiring the former Defensive Player of the Year before Memphis traded him to Utah at February’s deadline. Jaren Jackson Jr. of the Memphis Grizzlies celebrates …

The NBA’s $30 million penalty was aimed at the Clippers. The five missing first-round picks were a warning to every billionaire owner like Steve Ballmer. By hammering Los Angeles for circumventing the salary cap through off-court opportunities for Kawhi Leonard, the NBA did more than punish one franchise. It drew a boundary around one of the biggest advantages available to …

It’s time for our next category of Spurs villains. This time, we’re looking for your votes on Spurs haters. These are the people who have made it a priority to take a dig at the Silver and Black, on or off the court. Readers will vote for the biggest villain in a poll, and the winner of each match-up will advance …