The former cius of aspiration states that the idea that Kawhi Leonard had “contract non show is false”

All Case of and wage district against Steve Ballmer and Los Angeles Clippers It presents on this premise: Kawhi Leonard had a “No-Show” approval contract with the Sponsor aspiration of Clippers. That approval paid him $ 48 million ($ 28 million payments, $ 20 million in now useless stock options) but there is no evidence that has done a promotional work for the company (no appearance, no marketing, no posts on social media).

Andrei Cheny, the former aspiration CEO, issued a declaration that pushed the idea that Leonard had a “no-show” contract-the approval contract listed the things he had to do and said he never discussed the limit of the NBA salary during the discussions on the contract. He added that the much discussed “convictions” clause in Leonard-which contract could not be forced to do anything in which he did not believe-he was standard in celebrities contracts and does not apply to things like talking to the camera or publishing on social media.

Cheny’s post of Cheny led to the time former members of the executive aspiration team to reject the idea that Leonard’s approval was supported by most of the management.

Two things can be true. As Cheny noted, Leonard’s approval contract had specific provisions that was to satisfy: an eight -hour “work day”, making five posts on social media (including retweets) over the course of a year and more.

Even true: there is no evidence that has ever done anything about that job. Yet the controls continued to come.

What clipper can discuss – and what could take a break to the other owners when the time comes to punish Los Angeles – is that it is not their work for the police, the players’ approval contracts. Clipper can say they are not involved in any way in what Leonard has done or did not do the aspiration. Both the other owners and the players’ union will be hesitant to establish a precedent in which the team must monitor the approval agreements.

Ballmer and the Clippers have vehemently denied any illicitWith Ballmer saying he had been “deceived” by aspiration and his founder, like many other investors. He and the Clippers repeatedly claimed to have nothing to do with Leonard’s approval agreements.

However, it is difficult for the Clippers and Ballmer to pass the smell of the smell considering the totality of the tests, including investments with aspiration. Ballmer made a personal investment of $ 50 million in aspiration in 2021 and months later Leonard had an approval contract with the company that in the end was worth 48 million dollars. In December 2022, after it became clear that the aspiration was failing, The owner of the Clippers Dennis Wong minorities made an investment of $ 2 million in The company. Shortly thereafter, Leonard received a control of the late approval contract of $ 1.75 million. In March 2023, when things were bad for aspiration and was struggling to make the payroll, Ballmer made another investment of $ 10 million.

From Commissioner Adam Silver and the prospect of the League, the bar is high to show that the Clippers have tried to get around the hat.
Silver said this week that the burden of the test is in the championship – who has taken on a law firm to investigate his neutral third party – And that “it would be reluctant to act if there was a kind of simple aspect of impropriety”.

Wait that the NBA investigations drag into the NBA season, a cloud that will hang on the League even if the game games.