Kawhi Leonard has been a quiet superstar for years, but he is suddenly loud in the headlines again because of a business story that ties together a bankrupt company, an owner, and questions about how players get paid. The background is public and simple to follow. Pablo Torre published a deep investigation that says a now-defunct firm called Aspiration paid roughly twenty-eight million dollars to a company tied to Leonard. That claim reached the NBA and the Clippers almost immediately. That sequence of reporting is why this is no longer just rumor mill chatter.

The last six months made this a lightning rod. The league had already looked into aspects of Kawhi Leonard’s 2019 free agency. And the record shows the NBA completed that probe and found no evidence that the Clippers granted illega

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