{"id":460047,"date":"2026-09-11T02:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460047\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:30:25","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-under-federal-investigation-over-salary-cap-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460047\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers Under Federal Investigation Over Salary Cap Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Los Angeles Clippers<br \/>\n                          Under Federal Investigation<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              September 10, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:33 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260911_8584c8f0bc654628b5b2295edc7fd437\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c9b14722-2f46-4eb3-b34d-7bc1e3af0cf4\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8584c8f0bc654628b5b2295edc7fd437_md.jpg\" alt=\"kawhi leonard clippers getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have reportedly launched a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers over allegations the team skirted the NBA\u2019s salary-cap rules in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kawhi-leonard\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/10\/us\/politics\/kawhi-leonard-clippers-nba-justice-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a> reports the probe comes after the NBA hit the Clippers with a $30 million fine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/09\/02\/nba-punishes-clippers-kawhi-leonard-steve-ballmer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a> team owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/steve-ballmer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Ballmer<\/a>, and took away five first-round draft picks last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers denied wrongdoing to the NYT and say they plan to vigorously challenge the league\u2019s findings and penalties.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to the team \u2026 so far, no word back.<\/p>\n<p>Story developing \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers Under Federal Investigation Published September 10, 2026 5:33 PM PDT Federal prosecutors have reportedly launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,100,127,12447,12448],"class_list":["post-460047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}