{"id":510423,"date":"2026-08-17T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510423"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:52:19","slug":"nba-responds-to-espn-report-article-on-clippers-contains-numerous-inaccuracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-responds-to-espn-report-article-on-clippers-contains-numerous-inaccuracies\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA responds to ESPN report: \u201cArticle on Clippers contains numerous inaccuracies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49639157\/nba-la-clippers-aspiration-investigation-steve-ballmer-kawhi-leonard\">ESPN<\/a>&#8216;s report on <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-finds-no-evidence-ballmer-funneled-money-to-leonard-in-salary-cap-case\/\">the investigation involving the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard. League Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass disputed several elements of the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN&#8217;s article regarding the LA Clippers investigation \u2013 for which the NBA declined to cooperate \u2013 contains numerous and significant inaccuracies,\u201d Bass said. \u201cThe results in this matter will be made clear once the investigation is concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBA Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass issued the following statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iEBGJd51fv\">pic.twitter.com\/iEBGJd51fv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2089403698724184399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass disputed ESPN&#8217;s account of the Clippers investigation without commenting on its eventual findings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":278631,"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-510423","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\/510423","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510423"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510423"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510423"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}