{"id":458570,"date":"2025-09-05T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458570"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:43:10","slug":"ballmer-on-aspiration-scandal-i-was-conned-had-no-role-in-kawhi-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ballmer-on-aspiration-scandal-i-was-conned-had-no-role-in-kawhi-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer on Aspiration Scandal: \u201cI Was Conned, Had No Role in Kawhi Deal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1236\"><strong data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1103\">LA Clippers<\/strong> owner <strong data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1127\">Steve Ballmer<\/strong> addressed the $28 million <strong data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1171\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> endorsement with Aspiration, the bankrupt firm he invested in.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1238\" data-end=\"1439\">\u201cI only made the introduction; they went off on their own,\u201d Ballmer told ESPN. \u201cI was conned myself, lost money, and had no control over the company. I feel embarrassed I didn\u2019t sniff out the fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1630\">He emphasized the Clippers respected NBA salary cap rules and praised his relationship with Leonard: \u201cThe allegations aren\u2019t true. With Kawhi we\u2019re clear on the rules and we follow them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1648\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKr1MmpdZa\">pic.twitter.com\/gKr1MmpdZa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldWideWob\/status\/1963819976730767694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer addressed the $28 million Kawhi Leonard endorsement with Aspiration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":458569,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458570","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\/2025\/09\/G0DMztMaoAA8lQH.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458570","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=458570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458570"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458570"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458570"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}