Adam Silver’s legacy is on the line.
The NBA commissioner either will take a stand or sell out to the highest bidder, Steve Ballmer.
No owner in American professional sports has deeper pockets than the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner, and there are more than 3,000 pages of evidence Ballmer did some dirty work to circumvent the NBA’s salary cap with Kawhi Leonard.
The incredible “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast connected a series of dots between Ballmer, Leonard and Aspiration, a sustainability company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after one of its co-founders faced felony fraud charges.
While sifting through the bankruptcy filing, Torre found that Aspiration owed Leonard $7 million as part of a $28 million deal. One former Aspiration employee told Torre that Leonard’s contract far su