Monday was media day for most teams in the NBA, which traditionally marks the unofficial start of a new season. Teams begin training camp this week, with the preseason schedule right around the corner.

For the most part, media day is a pretty perfunctory exercise. But there were a few things said of note. Below is a roundup of the most important details to emerge from Monday's press conferences.

Kawhi takes the podium

A shock of the day was that the Clippers actually let Kawhi Leonard talk in the middle of all these salary-cap circumvention allegations by way of the now-bankrupt company Aspiration, which allegedly paid Leonard $28 million (with an additional $20 million in stock) for a no-show job.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is on the hot seat with this stuff. The league's richest ow

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