For many weeks now, Pablo Torre has been exhaustive in his reporting around the Los Angeles Clippers and their potential circumvention of the NBA salary cap for superstar Kawhi Leonard.<\/p>\n
In Torre\u2019s latest comments on the matter, he appears to be sending a message to the league: The ball is in your court.<\/p>\n
The latest episode in Torre\u2019s miniseries on the Clippers revealed further evidence of money being transferred from the team and its owners<\/a> to Aspiration, before ultimately being directed\u00a0to Leonard through a \u201cno-show\u201d partnership. In this case, the team purchased $21 million of so-called carbon credits (offsets developed by companies like Aspiration to counteract the footprint of industrial activity) just before Leonard was owed a similar amount for the no-show job.<\/p>\n The same day, NBA commissioner Adam Silver walked back<\/a> recent comments claiming that he did not know of Aspiration before Torre\u2019s reporting, despite a sizable partnership between the company and the Clippers that featured its logo on courtside seats at the team\u2019s arena. Silver originally stated he had \u201cfrankly never heard of\u201d Aspiration last Wednesday (in a clip publicized by none other than Torre himself), and this week clarified that he was \u201ccertainly aware\u201d of the company.<\/p>\n Torre clearly sees an opportunity to apply pressure on the league office to get its message straight and act swiftly. In his first direct response, Torre, filling in as a host on ESPN\u2019s Pardon the Interruption, called the saga \u201cthe biggest test of Adam Silver\u2019s tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n Pablo Torre: \u201cI believe (the Aspiration\/Clippers investigation) is the biggest test of Adam Silver\u2019s tenure as commissioner\u201d pic.twitter.com\/P7gOD9ycxG<\/a><\/p>\n