Los Angeles Clippers minority owner Dennis J. Wong invested almost $2 million into Aspiration, a former team sponsor, nine days before Aspiration wired $1.75 million to Kawhi Leonard's KL2 Aspire LLC on Dec. 15, 2022, according to documents obtained by Pablo Torre . A former Aspiration employee also told Torre that 20% of Aspiration's staff was laid off on the same day that Leonard received his payment.

That $1.75 million payment to Leonard was a late installment of the $28 million "no-show" endorsement deal that he was owed so long as he played for the Clippers. Leonard also reportedly had a side deal with Aspiration worth $20 million, bringing the total amount owed to Leonard to $48 million -- just shy of the $50 million that Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested in Aspiratio

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