The Los Angeles Clippers received word on their punishment in the Kawhi Leonard investigation nearly a week ago, but the trade sending Leonard to the Toronto Raptors still has not been made official.
Kawhi Leonard isn’t officially a member of the Raptors yet. You apparently wouldn’t know it by looking around Miami. Leonard has joined Raptors players for an organized minicamp in Miami, league sources told Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line.
The Kawhi Leonard trade has been waiting more than two months to become official. Apparently, it needs a little longer. This time, though, the holdup isn’t Leonard.
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Steve Ballmer apparently had a lot of support from fellow NBA owners throughout the Los Angeles Clippers salary cap circumvention scandal. But senior NBA insider Brian Windhorst says that changed completely once they read the league’s investigative report.
The regular season is important, but NBA legends are made in the playoffs. More specifically, it's the Finals where the all-time greats have built their otherworldly reputations.
Even though the NBA has concluded its investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers, the long-agreed Kawhi Leonard trade has yet to officially be consummated.
The Los Angeles Clippers are a mess right now, and honestly, there might be one clear way out of it: trading Darius Garland. Sean Deveney of Heavy Sports
ESPN is entering September with more than the usual pressure that comes with being the biggest name in sports media. The network has spent the summer dealing with layoffs and editorial restructuring, but a disputed report surrounding the LA Clippers has now created another problem inside the company.
Typically, the path to the NBA for most players is to spend at least a season in college to get high-level basketball and important development under their belts.
In 2000, when David Stern stripped the Minnesota Timberwolves of five first-round picks for cap circumvention, the franchise had no answer. Minnesota’s front office was thin, under-resourced, and spent the next decade cycling through executives who couldn’t overcome the deficit.
The Clippers agreed to trade Kawhi Leonard to the Raptors on June 30, but that blockbuster deal has been on hold until the NBA competed its investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented the salary cap to pay Leonard through a series of “no-show” endorsement deals.
It's time for the Los Angeles Clippers to focus on the on-court product in the 2026-27 season. Things will undoubtedly be more challenging now that the league has dealt a very harsh punishment to the organization, but the Clippers have no choice but to focus on the task at hand.
Draymond Green has definitely built a reputation for being one of the NBA’s strongest advocates for players, and he is once again defending one of his peers in the Kawhi Leonard–Los Angeles Clippers salary cap circumvention scandal.
Los Angeles Clippers forward Max Strus has admitted to not having ‘a bag’ in an interview about his NBA career. Players are often judged on their ability to entertain fans with their skills, but the reality of professional basketball can be very different.
The Los Angeles Clippers‘ salary cap circumvention scandal has already destroyed the franchise on the court, in the league office, and its reputation. But several prominent NBA insiders are now speaking about how ugly things were behind the scenes when reporters tried to ask questions.
Now that the dust has settled on the harsh punishment the league has dealt to the Los Angeles Clippers, many expected that the Kawhi Leonard trade would be made official relatively quickly.
The Clippers are losing five first-round picks as part of their historic punishment from the NBA. One pick they aren’t losing could become particularly interesting to the 76ers.
The NBA’s hammer could result in further drastic consequences for the LA Clippers. The LA Clippers could potentially place guard Darius Garland “firmly” on the trade block, Sean Deveney of Heavy Sports reports this weekend.
The Los Angeles Clippers are, without a doubt, a sizzling hot mess right now. Following the conclusion of the Kawhi Leonard controversy, they are staring at a pretty bleak present and future as a team.