Follow the Money: Ballmer, Kawhi, and Aspiration’s $118M Puzzle

Follow the Money: Steve Ballmer , Kawhi Leonard, and Aspirations $118M Puzzle The NBA cannot continue to ignore the Clippers situation, especially as new documents emerge.

After the last board of governors meeting, NBA commissioner Adam Silver confirmed that there will be an independent investigation into the matter.

Armed with his juris doctor, he acknowledges that Ballmer, Leonard and the Clippers are innocent until proven otherwise.

At the same time, if the NBA finds the Clippers guilty of cap circumvention, the penalties could be severe .

With every new document, the optics about the entire situation look worse for the Clippers.

Mark Cuban Helped Clippers Investigation So, the piece of paper I want to address.

This letter that you just read, says that the Clippers were withdrawing $21 million to fund carbon projects.

The sign at the bottom is the Chief Financial Officer of the Clippers.

This, I am told, was enough to pay Kawhi and keep the company afloat two weeks before Leonards initial no-show payment was due.

Nov 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden (1, left) and center Ivica Zubac (40, center) and Kawhi Leonard (right) watch a game from the bench during the second half against the Sacramento Kings at Intuit Dome.

Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images After the podcast aired, Cuban continued to tweet Torre, saying: You are missing the big prize that drove everything.

You have your sports brain on.

But this really isnt about sports at all.

Its a story about a guy who defrauded a lot of people and whose only hope of staying out of jail was this merger happening and then the stock price going up.

A lot.

Nobody can say whos right.

Only one thing is certain the LA Clippers continue to make headlines for the wrong reasons .

Follow the Money: Did Steve Ballmer and the Clippers fund Aspiration? How far the rabbit hole this investigation goes is anyones guess at this point.

Nevertheless, Torre has detailed all the payments hes found that were made between Ballmer, the Clippers, Aspiration, and Leonard.

Heres the complete timeline: September 14, 2021 Steve Ballmer invests $50 million through his company September 27, 2021 Clippers announce Aspiration Deal April 1, 2022 Clippers fund $3 million in carbon credits April 4, 2022 Clippers fund $32 in carbon credits June 17, 2022 Clippers fund $21 million in carbon credits July 6, 2022 Leonard paid $1.75 million December 6, 2022 Wong LLC Invests $2 million in Aspiration December 15, 2022 Leonard paid $1.75 million March 9, 2023 Ballmer LLC Invests $10 million Late March 2023 Government investigation opens about Aspiration With more receipts popping up weekly, itll be no surprise if the Clippers invested more money than they received from Aspiration in their deal..

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