Expect to see Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers for 'foreseeable future'
Yahoo Sports Daily host Caroline Fenton is joined by NBA contributing writer Tom Haberstroh to discuss the latest news regarding Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers cap circumvention scandal. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
Looking at this crystal ball and I'm expecting to see Kawhi Leonard as a Clipper for the foreseeable future.
And I say that because we have another piece of evidence here that Kawhi Leonard had a secret deal, with a third party that had business deals with the, Los Angeles Clippers, and it's a secret.
It was under wraps, and it's yet another instance of Kawhi Leonard having a secret deal with a third party, where there are a lot of questions why it is so secretive.
Why is it under wraps?
And the NBA has to, with its law firm that they are commissioning to do this investigation, has to get to the bottom of this.
And so far we're entering month 11 of this investigation, dating back to October of last year at the start of the season, and still, in this reporting from Pablo Torre Finds Out, we have another secret deal.
We have the secret, business deal with a second-tier soccer team in Rhode Island in which everyone is very secret about, and hush-hush about whether Kawhi Leonard has an equity deal and a ownership deal with the organization.
It is so bonkers to me that all these parties involved with Kawhi Leonard refuse to comment about this, whether it's Aspiration, the, the tree-planting, banking company that had, climate change, carbon credit, business operations in which the CEO is now facing 14 years in jail.
No one wants to c- comment about Kawhi Leonard.
We have, in this episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, a crisis manager who is very evasive when talking about Kawhi Leonard, saying, "I don't think Daktronics has a deal with Kawhi Leonard right now."
Seems very wishy-washy, and it's same thing with the Rhode Island, soccer club, where they had to get a lot of, people onto the call to see if they wanted to comment about Kawhi Leonard.
This is all very secretive and the NBA has to, at a certain point, wrap up this investigation.
Adam Silver said this summer that he would like to have it wrapped up by the summer.
But the fact that the Rhode Island soccer team, according to Pablo Torre's, reporting, has not been reached out to or spoken to Wachtell Lipton, the investigative law firm that the NBA has hired to investigate this Kawhi Leonard and Steve Ballmer deal.
The fact that this other entity that Pablo Torre has, r- reported on, they haven't even talked to the NBA.
So it is, it seems like to me this is gonna drag out even longer, and this proposed deal, agreed-upon deal with the Toronto Raptors in which Kawhi Leonard was gonna go to the Raptors, in, in return for Brandon Ingram, it seems like this investigation is just gonna drag on into the season.
And it's an ugly mess for the Clippers, it's an ugly mess for Steve Ballmer, for Kawhi Leonard, but also for the NBA as an entity.
