{"id":495378,"date":"2025-09-11T03:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495378"},"modified":"2025-09-11T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:50:27","slug":"adam-silver-says-nba-will-take-its-time-in-kawhi-leonards-investigation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/adam-silver-says-nba-will-take-its-time-in-kawhi-leonards-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver says NBA will &#8220;take its time&#8221; in Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA will take its time in determining whether Kawhi Leonard\u2019s business ties with a California company violated league salary cap rules, Commissioner Adam Silversaid on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a board of governors meeting in New York, Silver stressed that the league will wait for the results of an outside investigation before drawing conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re constantly learning in the league office and again, I\u2019m reserving judgment because I don\u2019t know the facts here,\u201d Silver said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what Kawhi was paid. I don\u2019t know what he did or didn\u2019t do. We\u2019ll leave all that for the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole investigation centers around a $28 million endorsement deal between Leonard and sustainability services company Aspiration Fund Adviser, which has since filed for bankruptcy. Questions were first raised in a report by journalist Pablo Torre, prompting the league to launch its inquiry last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I never heard a whiff of anything around an endorsement deal with Kawhi [Leonard] or anything around an engagement with the Los Angeles Clippers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Silver responds as the NBA launches an investigation into whether the Clippers arranged a $28M endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LrwPAlrkMi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LrwPAlrkMi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1965857004582314489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Clippers have firmly denied any wrongdoing, insisting that the partnership was legitimate and expressing support for the league\u2019s review.<\/p>\n<p>Silver made it clear that fairness is central to the process: \u201cI think as a matter of fundamental fairness, I would be reluctant to act if there was a mere appearance of impropriety. I think the goal of a full investigation is to find if there really was impropriety. &#8230; I would want anybody else in the situation that Mr. Ballmer is in now or Kawhi Leonard for that matter, to be treated the same way I would want to be treated if people were making allegations against me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA will take its time in determining whether Kawhi Leonard\u2019s business ties with a California company violated league salary cap rules, Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495379,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19717,17987,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[19718,18927,26773,18478,1067],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Clippers' star is under investigation for breaking the salary cap with outside sponsorship deal","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495380,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495378\/revisions\/495380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495378"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495378"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}