Clippers Make Announcement After New Steve Ballmer, Aspiration Allegations

Torre finds out that the Clippers CFO signed off on this deal to buy $50 million worth of "carbon credits," which Aspiration uses as part of their tree-planting initiative. This came after Mark Cuban, a huge Ballmer defender, said that this would be the smartest way for the Clippers to circumvent the salary cap effectively.

Of course, it was already reported that Ballmer himself invested $50 million into the company, and co-owner Dennis Wong invested a suspicious $2 million, as one of Leonard's payments was running late. However, there always seems to be more coming out about it that digs the Clippers into a deeper hole.

Clippers release a statement

Following the allegations of using this $21 million carbon credit deal to help pay Leonard, the Clippers' organization released a statement, labeled "Our response to the recent report about Steve's purchase of carbon credits:"

"Steve and his family are focused on sustainability, which is why Intuit Dome was designed to be a carbon neutral building from its inception and to achieve LEED Zero status over time.

"Our development agreements for the arena included mandates to buy carbon credits, but after studying the issue of neutrality, we went far beyond those requirements, exploring ways to address emissions from our fans and contracting with Aspiration to directly purchase carbon offets, as well as broker the acquisition of additional offsets."