{"id":687957,"date":"2026-06-06T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:18:10","slug":"latest-on-clippers-investigation-hoops-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687957\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Clippers Investigation | Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard<\/a> and his uncle and business adviser Dennis Robertson have both been interviewed as part of the NBA\u2019s investigation into whether the team circumvented the salary cap to pay the seven-time All-Star, multiple sources tell Baxter Holmes of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The investigation, which is being led by the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was launched by the league in September 2025 after a series of reports<\/a> from investigative journalist and podcaster Pablo Torre alleged the Clippers funneled money to Leonard through a no-show endorsement deal with the now-defunct \u201cgreen banking\u201d company Aspiration.<\/p>\n

According to Holmes, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and other team officials have also been interviewed as part of the investigation. Torre previously reported that former Aspiration executives have been interviewed as well, with five ex-employees saying<\/a> they weren\u2019t asked about Ballmer, whose involvement was at the center of Torre\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

Although Ballmer, Leonard and other key members of the team have publicly denied the allegations \u2014 and Leonard\u2019s camp did so again to Holmes \u2014 some Clippers executives have privately become frustrated by \u201ctrying to prove innocence for a violation that they say they didn\u2019t commit,\u201d Holmes writes. Sources tell ESPN the team isn\u2019t sure how the matter will conclude despite the club\u2019s insistence it did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Adam Silver suggested at his press conference<\/a> on Wednesday that the investigation was nearing its end, though he didn\u2019t give a definitive timeline. According to Holmes\u2019 sources, Silver won\u2019t be swayed by any public pressure to penalize the Clippers, since he answers to the other 29 owners. Silver said on Wednesday that he would follow the facts uncovered by the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard and his uncle and business adviser Dennis Robertson have both been interviewed as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11653,99,11652],"class_list":["post-687957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-sports","tag-steve-ballmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}