Shams Charania
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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Eastern time, they are vehemently standing by their statements that they did not do anything wrong.
And at the crux of this.
uh is the introductions that the NBA found that rose to the level of not just normal introductions that teams make.
Teams in the NBA are allowed, Pat, to make introductions to their players and sponsors, right?
And so any individual player
likely sixty to seventy percent of of their sponsors are coming d directly with the le with the team sponsors just because it's in-house.
Well, you can introduce a player like the Clippers could have introduced Kawhi Leonard to Daktronics or any of these other four companies that they've been alle they they've been found to basically brokering these deals.
The issue here is that there is proof at least on one occasion, Gillian Zucker, the president of business, who got suspended for a full year.
Well she basically, according to the NBA's findings, negotiated a deal in the millions with a company and a and a and a middleman, the middle agent.
For Kawhi Leonard, on behalf of Kawhi Leonard, before it even reached the point of an introduction.
And so cases like that are why when I talked to team executives last night, one mentioned to me the Clippers basically acted as some form of a power agent for Kawhi Leonard in some instances.
And that's where it it it rises from just introductions or just an innocent situation to okay, there is some intention.
Yeah, there's cer like you can look at everything circumstantially, you know, like the the Clippers are, you know, paying seven million and then Kawhi's getting seven million.
Like why?
Like but there's no
Like that there's no like definitive like the the money went from Steve Ballmer's bank account to this company and then it went right like that core but again you can read through the circumstances, you can read through all of it, and that's where the lines, you know, get blurred a little bit and there is that uh gray area, but
I don't know why anyone involved in this situation manage these deals the way they did.
Like to have deals in the mi tens of millions of dollars of range, like
Kawhi Leonard, these deals were being inked and discussed and talked about during 2020 and 2021.
This is during the COVID pandemic when businesses were basically at times using COVID and the pandemic, and that was around the country as a reason why businesses were actually suffering, that uh money wasn't as available.
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