{"id":889044,"date":"2026-09-09T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889044\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:22:11","slug":"nba-owners-were-aghast-after-reading-the-clippers-investigation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889044\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA owners were &#8216;aghast&#8217; after reading the Clippers investigation report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Windhorst: &#8220;I think Steve Ballmer largely was getting the benefit of the doubt from his peer owners through this process. I know that there were some people who believed that he was, especially the teams that were trying to get <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4896\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> back in 2019 and heard out of Uncle Dennis&#8217;s mouth the requests that came through here, and the teams that were impacted by Kawhi picking the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/la-clippers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clippers<\/a>, they may not have felt that way (\u2026) But the teams that were not in the mix, they wanted to believe him. <a data-ylk=\"slk:And the word that was said to me by a very influential person was that some of the other owners were aghast when they read this report.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;And the word that was said to me by a very influential person was that some of the other owners were aghast when they read this report.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OM8YZyQ5lic&amp;t=160s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">And the word that was said to me by a very influential person was that some of the other owners were aghast when they read this report.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Windhorst: &#8220;I think Steve Ballmer largely was getting the benefit of the doubt from his peer owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[55184,49,48,14728,459,271558,82,65402,308323],"class_list":["post-889044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brian-windhorst","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-nba","tag-owners","tag-sports","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-uncle-dennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889044","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=889044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}