previously investigated by the NBA<\/a> for allegedly seeking improper benefits. Although many have pointed to the no-show nature of the deal as a strike against Leonard, the Sports Guy believes it could be evidence that he was never clued in<\/p>\n\u201cThe smoking gun for this theory is Kawhi doesn\u2019t wanna do any work. He doesn\u2019t wanna have to do anything,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cFlip this around. Why would they be so determined to not have Kawhi do any work? Like, it\u2019s actually easy to go film an ad for an hour. It\u2019s easy to do like five tweets a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is more like, \u2018Kawhi\u2019s not gonna do anything. Is this understood? It\u2019s gotta be, he gets paid to do work that he didn\u2019t actually do.\u2019 Almost like when you\u2019re watching a movie or a TV show from the 70s or 80s and the guy is the fake job. And I wonder if maybe they constructed it that way so that Kawhi never knew about the money\u2026 I\u2019m not ruling it out. I\u2019m not ruling out anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simmons\u2019 guest, Jason Concepcion, agreed that the theory is at least plausible. The two also listed off multiple examples of people who have made money off the names of celebrity relatives behind their backs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a compelling theory and would, if nothing else, explain one of the biggest questions of this entire saga. To Simmons\u2019 point, the entire no-show aspect of the agreement could have been avoided with minimal work like a commercial shoot or a handful of social media posts.<\/p>\n
Still, even if Kawhi Leonard was totally unaware of it, that likely wouldn\u2019t clear the Clippers if it\u2019s found that the team was involved in orchestrating the agreement. And while Torre\u2019s latest reporting may have found the \u201csmoking gun,\u201d Simmons\u2019 theory is a reminder that this is a story that\u2019s still very much in its infancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard has made no shortage of headlines in recent weeks. But according to Bill Simmons, the stories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,2161,559,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,6587],"class_list":{"0":"post-281636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bill-simmons","10":"tag-clippers","11":"tag-kawhi-leonard","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-clippers","14":"tag-laclippers","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesclippers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-the-bill-simmons-podcast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115196665805056174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}