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Request for a private plane! Leonard is investigated! Congratulations to the Lakers on escaping

4:58am, 6 September 2025【Basketball】

The NBA league is investigating the Clippers and Leonard Yin-Yang contract incidents, and no progress has been made yet. An NBA team executive said in an interview with Lakers Daily: "The Lakers really wanted to sign Leonard at that time. This guy hardly played. Now it seems that the Lakers failed to get Leonard, which is considered to have escaped."

The executive also said: "Do you think Ritchie Paul and James are not easy to deal with? In fact, Dennis Robertson (Leonard's uncle) is even more difficult. He simply regards Leonard as God." In the summer of 2019, before Leonard joined the Clippers, he met the Lakers. At that time, it was reported that Xiaoka's uncle made a violation of regulations to the Lakers. The conditions proposed by Kajiu to the Lakers include: 1. Private jet; 2. 1% Lakers shares; 3. A luxury house; 4. An over-the-counter endorsement contract. At least two of these conditions are public violations. The NBA has clear regulations: active players cannot hold shares, and yin and yang contracts are not allowed. The Lakers did not make concessions and rejected him! After the collapse of the talks with the Lakers, on July 11, 2019, Leonard joined the Clippers for 3 years with a total of $103 million. As for whether Uncle Leonard has offered conditions to the Clippers, he has been a mystery until now. In December 2019, Leonard publicly responded: "I didn't read that report, I had no idea. People are making up stories every day." Uncle Leonard is his "spokesperson" and is fully responsible for his signing and cooperation. Leonard and the Spurs turned against each other, and his uncle was responsible. In the summer of 2019, in addition to the Lakers, Kajiu also made illegal requests to many teams. Now Xiaoka’s “yin-yang contract” with Aspiration is also his uncle collecting debts.

Earlier this year, when Aspiration was on the verge of bankruptcy, the company no longer paid anyone, including employees and spokespersons. But Mr. Ka continued to collect debts, and Aspiration only paid Leonard alone. Is this just the responsibility of Ka uncle and Xiao Ka is completely unaware of it? Thinking about it from the perspective of others, Xiao Ka must know it himself.

Leonard has two contracts with Aspiration, the first of which was $28 million in four years, and was first exposed two days ago. In fact, Leonard also has a contract: he got $20 million in Aspiration's stock, and the two contracts combined to $48 million. Coincidentally, Ballmer had injected $50 million into Aspiration.

NBA has officially launched the investigation process. Ballmer appeared on the ESPN program to clarify the matter: "This is Leonard's private matter in Aspiration, so I won't inquire. I own less than 3% of the shares in Aspiration. I have neither a board seat nor any control."

Balmer said that he was also accused of Aspiration. Fraud, also a victim: "We renewed our contract with Xiaoka in August 2021, and I didn't recommend him to Aspiration until November 2021. I think the $50 million investment is open and honest, but what they gave me was false statements, and those people committed fraud."

Aspiration filed for bankruptcy in March this year, and the head of the company formally pleaded guilty this summer, pleading guilty to fraudulent investors for $248 million. Do you think there is a yin and yang contract for the small card?