{"id":459750,"date":"2025-09-13T09:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=459750"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:53:41","slug":"bill-simmons-theory-could-clear-kawhi-leonard-amid-pablo-torre-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bill-simmons-theory-could-clear-kawhi-leonard-amid-pablo-torre-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons\u2019 Theory Could Clear Kawhi Leonard Amid Pablo Torre Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"150\" data-end=\"287\">Bill Simmons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wetGSykKhMA\">has shared<\/a> a theory that could absolve Kawhi Leonard of any wrongdoing in the controversy brought to light by Pablo Torre.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"824\">\u201cWhat if Kawhi just never knew about any of this?\u201d Simmons asked on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wetGSykKhMA\"><em data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"383\">The Bill Simmons Podcast<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe smoking gun for this theory is that Kawhi doesn\u2019t want to do any work. He doesn\u2019t want to have to deal with anything. Flip this around: why would they be so determined to keep Kawhi from doing any work? It\u2019s actually easy to film a one-hour commercial. It\u2019s easy to do five tweets a year. This feels more like Kawhi is just not going to do anything\u2026 I wonder if this whole setup was designed to even hide the compensation from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"961\">Simmons speculated that the scenario may have been orchestrated entirely by Leonard\u2019s well-known uncle and advisor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"963\" data-end=\"1094\">The NBA has launched an investigation into the matter, so updates are expected soon in what could turn into an even bigger story.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1335\">\u201cI\u2019ve read some articles about how other teams are furious about the situation, get the f..k out of here\u2026 Half the league does this. I wish I could say even 10% of the stuff I\u2019ve heard&#8230;\u201d Simmons added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillSimmons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BillSimmons<\/a>&#8216;s hottest take on the Clippers\u2013Kawhi Leonard situation&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JQpZI3KZDV\">pic.twitter.com\/JQpZI3KZDV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Ringer (@ringer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringer\/status\/1966509608219926971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 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>Simmons: &#8220;Half the league does this. I wish I could say even 10% of the stuff I\u2019ve heard&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":435435,"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-459750","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\/03\/kawhi-leonard-clippers.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459750","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459750"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=459750"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=459750"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=459750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}