#nba-investigation

#nba-investigation

LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the team are under investigation by the NBA following a report that Kawhi Leonard allegedly accepted a $28 million endorsement from a company called Aspiration as a way to circumvent the league's salary cap. Ballmer, who had previously invested $50 million in Aspiration, has denied he had knowledge of the deal or that he directed the company to strike one.

By now, Pablo Torre breaking the story about Steve Ballmer allegedly using a fraudulent tree-planting start-up company, Aspiration, to circumvent the salary cap is old news. Since then, Torre's investigative reporting has forced the billionaire to tell his side of the story on ESPN, prompted the NBA to hire a law firm to investigate further, and set the top item on the agenda of the NBA Board of Governors meeting.