{"id":293015,"date":"2025-11-18T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:13:07","slug":"kawhi-leonards-business-relationship-with-uncle-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293015\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard\u2019s business relationship with uncle under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clippers F Kawhi Leonard\u2019s uncle Dennis Robertson \u201cstands out\u201d in the NBA\u2019s investigation into potential salary cap aversion<\/a> by the Clippers \u201cfor his bold pursuit of unconventional agreements that channel income into Leonard\u2019s pockets and his own,\u201d according to records cited by Samaha & Fortier of the WASHINGTON POST. Those pursuits have \u201cleft a trail of conflict in their wake, peaking with allegations\u201d that \u201cBallmer bypassed NBA salary cap rules<\/a> by funding a no-show marketing agreement for Leonard\u201d with team sponsor Aspiration. Those revelations \u201cshed light on the shadowy secondary economy that fuels player movement in the NBA — and the unique role Robertson plays in that market.\u201d It began \u201csoon after Leonard turned pro, when the sports agency that signed him put Robertson on its payroll and sent payments to a pair of \u2018KL\u2019 LLCs,\u201d according to allegations Leonard\u2019s former agent made in a lawsuit against the agency. Leonard\u2019s college strength coach later \u201cgot a job with the Clippers on the condition that he pay Robertson 10 percent of his salary,\u201d the coach said in an ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit he filed against the team. When Leonard was seeking a new contract in 2019, records show that Robertson\u2019s \u201cchildhood friend tried to extract a payment from the Clippers if Leonard signed with the team.\u201d Robertson has \u201cserved as his nephew\u2019s primary business partner and is listed as a manager for nine of the 25 LLCs registered to Leonard,\u201d according to records filed with state authorities (WASHINGTON POST, 11\/17<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clippers F Kawhi Leonard\u2019s uncle Dennis Robertson \u201cstands out\u201d in the NBA\u2019s investigation into potential salary cap aversion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,23020,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-legal","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}