We have a new Pablo Torre report about the alleged Kawhi Leonard “no-show” job that paid the Los Angeles Clippers superstar a large sum of money for endorsing a company that went bankrupt. The Clippers, as you may recall, have denied using that endorsement deal to circumvent the salary cap with Leonard.
In the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, the reporter dives into payments from Aspiration, the bankrupt company in question with Leonard as one of its creditors. Leonard got a $1.75 million payment in December of 2022, according to bank statements that Torre acquired. On that same day, the entire Aspiration staff got laid off, per one of his sources.
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But it’s what happened nine days before that Torre focuses on in this particular clip. A nearly $2 million was wired into Aspiration by an company that Torre reports is associated with a Dennis — not Leonard’s uncle Dennis Robertson, who has reportedly made demands about payments associated with his nephew.
That Dennis? It’s Dennis J. Wong. And he’s very much associated with the Clippers.
Who is Dennis J. Wong?
He owns one percent of the Clippers and he also was the college roommate of Steve Ballmer, the owner of the other 99 percent of the Clips.
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What did the Clippers say about the latest Clippers connection to Aspiration and Kawhi Leonard?
In a statement to the podcast, the franchise said “it is clear the company was a house of cards that defrauded Steve [Ballmer] and many others.”
And remember: Ballmer has denied the Clippers have circumvented the cap here. We’ll see if the NBA agrees.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Kawhi Leonard report from Pablo Torre raises more Clippers queries