{"id":735048,"date":"2026-05-15T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:30:20","slug":"west-gm-on-kawhi-leonard-theres-no-way-clippers-are-voiding-his-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735048\/","title":{"rendered":"West GM on Kawhi Leonard: There&#8217;s no way Clippers are voiding his\u00a0contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, of course, you can&#8217;t ignore Kawhi Leonard and the <a data-ylk=\"slk:LA Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> being under investigation for possible salary cap circumvention. That leaves his short-term future somewhat up in the air. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;There&#039;s no way they&#039;re voiding his contract even if the league finds him guilty,&quot; a West GM said. &quot;That would be a reward, clearing the Clippers&#039; books for them.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48773488\/nba-playoffs-offseason-intel-lebron-giannis-pistons-76ers-clippers-summer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no way they&#8217;re voiding his contract even if the league finds him guilty,&#8221; a West GM said. &#8220;That would be a reward, clearing the Clippers&#8217; books for them.&#8221;<\/a> The way Leonard is playing, the Clippers might want him on their books. &#8220;Them getting the No. 5 pick in the draft [via trade with the Indiana Pacers and some lottery fortune] is the piece of information they&#8217;ve been waiting for,&#8221; a West executive said. &#8220;At the very least, you&#8217;d expect them to have some fresh conversations to assess his [trade] value.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But, of course, you can&#8217;t ignore Kawhi Leonard and the LA Clippers being under investigation for possible salary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-735048","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-clippers","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116578839655616130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735048","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=735048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}