NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday there will be no rush to judgment by the league on allegations the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules through another company’s phony endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard.

“I’m reserving judgment because I don’t know the facts here,” Silver said at a press conference after the league’s board of governors’ meeting in New York.

“I don’t know what Kawhi was paid. I don’t know what he did or didn’t do. We’ll leave all that to the investigation.”

A podcast report by journalist Pablo Torre alleged this month that the Clippers skirted salary cap rules through a now-bankrupt company called Aspiration, in which Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was an investor.

Torre reported that Leonard signed a contract worth $28 million over four years in

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