{"id":849207,"date":"2026-08-07T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849207\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:52:10","slug":"report-kawhi-had-undisclosed-deal-with-company-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849207\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kawhi had undisclosed deal with company behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kawhi Leonard had an undisclosed sponsorship deal with video board company Daktronics, journalist Pablo Torre reported on his “Pablo Torre Finds Out<\/a>” podcast Thursday.<\/p>\n

A high-level contract employee at the Los Angeles Clippers’ Intuit Dome described Leonard’s previously unknown deal with Daktronics as “1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap.”<\/p>\n

“It was funneling money from the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kawhi,” that source alleged, according to Torre.<\/p>\n

A former Clippers official who spoke to Torre also said that they knew “Kawhi had a sponsorship with Daktronics.” That individual described the agreement as a “multi-million-dollar deal.”<\/p>\n

The Clippers did not respond to a request for comment when reached by ESPN<\/a> late Thursday.<\/p>\n

Daktronics produced the “Halo Board” in the Clippers’ Intuit Dome – a massive, double-sided looping digital scoreboard that remains the largest ever built in an arena. The company also produced six LED displays at Rhode Island FC – a United Soccer League club that Leonard had quietly invested in, Torre reported<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

On July 14, The Athletic’s Mike Vorkunov<\/a> reported that the law firm conducting the NBA’s cap circumvention investigation into Leonard and the Clippers was now probing a second sponsorship deal. The league’s inquiry remains without a target date for completion but commissioner Adam Silver said<\/a> last month he hoped to have it wrapped up “this summer.”<\/p>\n

The lack of clarity surrounding a resolution has held up a blockbuster trade centered around Leonard, in which the Raptors agreed to reacquire their former Finals MVP in exchange for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, two unprotected first-round picks, the right to swap another first-rounder, and two second-round picks. Silver said the NBA did not step in to halt the deal but that the teams “made a decision not to go forward given that the investigation remained open.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard had an undisclosed sponsorship deal with video board company Daktronics, journalist Pablo Torre reported on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-849207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}