{"id":846489,"date":"2026-08-07T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846489\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:44:10","slug":"report-kawhi-leonard-had-undisclosed-deal-with-clippers-scoreboard-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846489\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kawhi Leonard had undisclosed deal with Clippers’ scoreboard maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another branch of the Kawhi Leonard<\/a> salary-cap circumvention saga emerged Thursday.<\/p>\n

Leonard had a multi-million hidden sponsorship deal with Daktronics, the company which made the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>‘ halo scoreboard at Intuit Dome, Pablo Torre reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s the third questionable arrangement that has come to light over the past year, beginning with Leonard’s alleged no-show deal with environmental bank Aspiration, which sparked an NBA investigation that remains ongoing into whether the Clippers circumvented the salary cap to sign the two-time Finals MVP.<\/p>\n

In July, Torre reported that Leonard was a minority owner with the United Soccer League’s Rhode Island FC, a pro soccer club, though its ties to the Clippers are tangential at best.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A PR spokesperson for Daktronics replied to Torre co-investigator Sam Koppelman’s questioning about a Leonard deal. <\/p>\n

“My understanding is Daktronics doesn’t have a deal with Kawhi right now,” the spokesperson said. “I don’t know what the company wants to say, or can say, given the Wachtell investigation and all that.”<\/p>\n

Wachtell Lipton is the law firm hired by the NBA to look into the Leonard case.<\/p>\n

The Clippers strongly denied that any rules were broken and said they welcomed the league\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n

Earlier this off-season, the Clippers agreed to send Leonard back to the Toronto Raptors<\/a> in a trade for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick and draft picks. However, the teams have since put the deal on pause as Wachtell Lipton completes its investigation surrounding potential cap circumvention.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear when the probe, which has been ongoing for about 11 months, will wrap up.<\/p>\n

In July, The Athletic reported that the NBA was looking into a second sponsorship deal in addition to Aspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet another branch of the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention saga emerged Thursday. Leonard had a multi-million hidden sponsorship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-846489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846489","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=846489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}