{"id":458324,"date":"2025-09-04T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458324"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:16:41","slug":"nba-reportedly-panicking-over-kawhi-leonards-28-million-aspiration-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-reportedly-panicking-over-kawhi-leonards-28-million-aspiration-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Reportedly Panicking Over Kawhi Leonard\u2019s $28 Million Aspiration Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1277\">The alleged endorsement between <strong data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1130\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> and a fraudulent company funded by <strong data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1183\">Steve Ballmer<\/strong> has set off alarms at the NBA. The $28 million deal may represent a violation of CBA rules.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1509\">Reports suggest the league was unaware of the arrangement, comparing it to the infamous Joe Smith case with the Timberwolves in 2000, which led to heavy fines and lost draft picks. The precedent shows how harsh penalties can be.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1734\">Leonard\u2019s Aspiration contract reportedly ties payments to his stay with the <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1611\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/strong>, raising further suspicion. The NBA has launched an investigation, with the league office said to be in full panic mode.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1762\"><em data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1760\">Source: Fadeaway World<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1792\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secondo quanto riportato, la Lega non era a conoscenza dell\u2019accordo e teme un caso simile a quello dei Timberwolves con Joe Smith nel 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458324"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458324"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458324"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}