Shocking New Details Have Emerged About Kawhi's Aspiration Deal

The story currently taking the NBA by storm is that of the Los Angeles Clippers and their star Kawhi Leonard. Slowly leaked evidence from Pablo Torre indicates that the Clippers may have helped facilitate a $28 million “no-show” endorsement deal between a company called Aspiration and Kawhi Leonard. 

Torre released more evidence he had uncovered during his recent podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out”. During the podcast, he interviewed a former Aspiration employee. 

“It is beyond shocking, and I will tell you, I knew that the board of directors at Aspiration had put in money in December to make payroll and pay rent… so it is not a rational investment that someone like Wong would make,” the former Aspiration employee said on the podcast.

They continued: “It is very shocking to me that $2 million was invested by Dennis Wong, who in my texts is identified as Steve Ballmer’s partner, just a week before $1.75 million was paid to Kawhi.”

This is extremely damning for the Clippers. It is hard to believe that they weren’t intimately involved in Kawhi’s Aspiration deal. 

It’s also a bad look for Leonard. Additionally, now that the dates of these payments have been released, people have started to investigate further. 

AP Hoops reported “In 2022 Kawhi Leonard played in 26% of games due to “right knee stiffness” before the reported $1.75M delayed payment was made by Aspiration. The day after it was deposited, Leonard went on to play 82% of the Clippers total games to close out the season.”

If Kawhi were choosing not to pay because he wasn’t getting his bribes from the Clippers, Kawhi may be in trouble.

The NBA is investigating both Kawhi and the Clippers, and it is unclear if either will be punished in a real way. However, as more and more evidence comes out, it seems like this was a truly shady deal between player and team.