The league is angry and panicked! The incident of Xiaoka fermented, or was punished as a free agent, and the trader surfaced

On September 4, the yin-yang contract incident between the NBA Leonard and the Clippers continued to ferment. Many reporters and media rushed to report it, and it was difficult for this matter to reverse again. TA's reporter said that he thought the interest relationship behind the Yin-Yang contract incident should be very complicated, and at least he should find a third-party matchmaker to execute it. Unexpectedly, there is an additional contract between Clippers and Leonard, which is simply incredible. Ballmer paid 28 million yuan for a shadow company endorsed by Leonard for four years. In other words, Leonard had nothing to do and wasted 28 million yuan. Reporter Pablo Torre said that Xiao Ka's few requests in his endorsement were to assist in planting trees, but he didn't even do this.

As people's attention increased, people discovered that there was more than this incident about the interest relationship between Leonard and Ballmer. Because in August 2021, Leonard could have signed a 1+1 contract, and then signed a maximum salary of 242 million yuan for five years the following year. As a result, Leonard directly renewed the contract for 176 million yuan for four years in 2021, and received a less than $66 million, which makes people doubt his motive. Just one month later, Ballmer transferred $50 million to the company Aspiration. In November, Leonard registered the company KL2 Aspire. In December, Aspiration completed 315 million yuan in financing, leading Ballmer, including a 50 million mandatory convertible shares.

Immediately afterwards, Aspiration and Leonard signed an endorsement contract, with 28 million in 4 years, which is the timeline of the entire event. Now the Clippers and Ballmer deny that they believe that Aspiration will sign whoever they want, and they have not participated in the decision-making. But think about it, if you are the general manager of Aspiration and you sign a contract of 28 million, will you report to the largest shareholder? Or is this contract itself the largest shareholder signing it? And now the trader behind the scenes has surfaced. It is no one else, but Xiao Ka's uncle and his agent. This uncle asked for an endorsement contract of 15 million during the Raptors. When he talked to the Lakers to join in the summer of 2019, he also wanted additional benefits. In short, it was very difficult and insatiable.

The problem has now exploded, so how to solve it and how to end it depends on the alliance. According to TA reporter Pablo Torre, after learning about this, the league was both angry and panicked. There is no need to mention the reason for the anger. The Clippers violated the rules seriously, evaded luxury tax, caused the league to lose, caused the other 29 teams to lose, and the reason for the panic was actually simple, that is, the special identity of the Clippers boss, Ballmer, who is worth $152.5 billion, the richest man in North American sports, is the protagonist of this matter. Is the league necessary, and even has the strength to "punish" this tough bone?

If the regulations are followed, the Clippers may be fined $7.5 million, Leonard will be fined $350,000, deprived of multiple future draft picks, the violators will be suspended for up to one year, the player contract will be cancelled, and the player will become free agents. If the judgment is truly compared with the black and white words, then Leonard will definitely become a free agent and will not be able to play for a year. For Ballmer, 7.5 million can only be considered pocket money, but the draft picks will be fined in the next few years, which is very difficult for the Clippers. The Clippers are overdrawing the future and replacing the present.

And for other Clippers players, it is a bolt from the blue. This summer, Harden has just renewed his contract for two years and Paul has just returned. In addition, Corinth, Lopez, and Bill are all strong players, and they are indeed strong. But now, if Leonard is suspended for 82 games, then the others still have no chance. Last season, they are actually relying on Leonard. Even if Leonard is suspended for one year, he will still be a hot commodity in the 2026-2027 season, and some of them are pursued by the next company.