Billionaire Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer isn’t hiding from allegations he had knowledge of a ‘no-show’ contract Kawhi Leonard signed with a now-bankrupt company that allegedly violated the NBA’s salary cap. Article content

Ballmer went on ESPN Thursday night and expressed his innocence, admitting only to being scammed by environmental company Aspiration and its now-disgraced co-founder Joseph Sanberg. Article content Article content

Ballmer said that while it’s true the Clippers introduced Leonard to Aspiration, then a major Clippers sponsor, he had no hand in the endorsement deal — reported by Pablo Torre on his Pablo Torre Finds Out show Wednesday as $28 million, with an extra $20 million in payments reported by Boston Sports Journal the next day (which Torre late

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