Beverley said<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I actually started to build them before COVID hit. I’m telling you, I got four courts in LA with Mr. 94 Feet logo on them right before COVID hit and everything had to be paused,” he added.<\/p>\n
The Clippers now face the fallout of the league’s Aspiration investigation. Beverley said that the unresolved court deal feels less like a running joke and more like unfinished business.<\/p>\n
“I’m still looking for compensation from that. It’s funny, we joke about it, but now I’m serious,” he said, tying the moment directly to Ballmer’s current situation. “Now I’m serious that now all the stuff I’m saying with Kawhi, I’m like, nah, I need that. Like that’s only fair, right?”<\/p>\n
The NBA’s investigation found that Ballmer knowingly helped Leonard secure off-court income through a sham endorsement deal with the now-collapsed company Aspiration. The same kind of behind-the-scenes financial arrangement that Beverley is now calling out Ballmer for.<\/p>\n
He oversaw the organization pour $2 billion into building the Intuit Dome, invest heavily around Leonard\u2019s camp, and absorb the largest fine in league history\u2014all while a comparatively modest commitment to a former player sat untouched for years.<\/p>\n
“So was it all worth it? I couldn’t believe the Clippers went out like that,” Beverley said, summing up his frustration with how the franchise’s priorities have played out.<\/p>\n
The Clippers, for their part, are not accepting the league\u2019s findings. <\/p>\n
The team released a statement saying it \u201cvehemently rejects the NBA\u2019s findings, which are the result of a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative rather than facts and evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer just received the harshest ownership punishment in modern NBA history. A one-year suspension, a $30 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-886392","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\/886392","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=886392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}