Did Clippers skirt salary cap with payment to Kawhi Leonard?

Were he still alive, David Stern would entertain potential punishments for the Los Angeles Clippers : the seizure of draft picks, exorbitant fines, maybe the kidnapping of a family member. The late NBA commissioner would probably have called the richest owner in the league into his office and told him he was screwed six ways to Sunday. Stern might even have flipped a desk.

Now, though, NBA commissioner Adam Silver must decide how to handle a blooming scandal involving Clippers owner Steve Ballmer , an allegedly fraudulent tree-planting carbon credit company, and Clippers star Kawhi Leonard, who used to play around these parts. Investigative podcaster Pablo Torre may be the best sports reporter in America right now, and on his show ” Pablo Torre Finds Out ” he unearthed a four-year