Pablo Torre

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Pablo Torre on the delay in the Kawhi Leonard scandal · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And at every phase, what we hear is that Steve Ballmer's Clippers had influence over what Aspiration was doing, as evidenced by the fact that they operated in such a contorted way to continue to pay them, the Clippers and Kawhi, as everything around the company collapsed. matched

In a timeline that we have, again, the weapons on the table for you to examine. matched

And so, you know... matched

Yeah, the thing that I had been told and has now, I think the Toronto Star, I want to give credit to them for publishing it just yesterday, I think. matched

The thing that changed in terms of the material process of the trade call being made in which you report, hey, official league office, here's the paperwork, is that the NBA provided the Raptors something that the Raptors had not ever experienced before, didn't know the precedent for apparently, which was actual physical paperwork that they needed to sign, which would remove their ability to pursue legal recourse. matched

In the event that there was a punishment that affected Kawhi's contract and therefore what might be fair compensation for a player that might not be playing all the games or had a contract voided or whatever. matched

And the Raptors balked at that. matched

And they said, we can't sign it. matched

I mean, this is a new development. matched

The paperwork in which we do not have that ability to pursue this is new to us. matched

That is not... matched

what we were expecting. matched

And the context and the subtext really, again, I said it before to you guys, the Raptors are the team in 2019 that went to the league and said, we are trying to sound the alarm on this. matched

They have been throughout, I can say this also just in my reporting, matched

For now, the last couple of years, there has been no team more aggrieved by the Kawhi Leonard aspiration Clippers salary cap circumvention scheme that my reporting has suggested than the Toronto Raptors. matched

And so the question behind what is this paperwork telling you is, do you believe as an organization that it's plausible that matched

that something happened that was worthy of punishment. matched

And the Raptors, more than any team in the league, according to my reporting... Should believe that. matched

...have a conviction that something did happen. matched

And so that's why it's a yes-and story. matched

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