The former chief executive of the company that allegedly inked NBA star Kawhi Leonard to a phony endorsement deal to help the Clippers skirt the salary cap says reports of the contract are "false".

Andrei Cherny, who left the company Aspiration in 2022, said in a statement on X on Friday that Leonard, who reportedly signed a four-year deal worth $28 million in 2021 to market and endorse the company but never did so, had "extensive" obligations.

"The contract contained three pages of extensive obligations that Leonard had to perform," Cherny, who left Aspiration in 2022, wrote.

"And the contract clearly said that if Leonard did not meet those obligations, Aspiration could terminate the contract."

The NBA is investigating the matter after journalist Pablo Torre reported that a purported

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