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Famous reporter: NBA has hired a law firm to investigate Xiaoka s endorsement agreement, the latter is suspected of evading the salary cap

10:18pm, 6 September 2025【Basketball】

September 6 According to a joint report by The Athletic reporter Joe Vardon, Sam Amick and Mike Vorkunov, a person familiar with the matter revealed that the NBA has hired FirmWachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz of New York law firms to investigate the endorsement agreement signed by Xiaoka and a now-bank environmental protection company, which aims to help his team (the Clippers) and its boss, billionaire Steve Ballmer, evade the NBA salary cap.

The above-mentioned reporters said that the decision clearly shows that the alliance is taking these related allegations seriously.

The source revealed that the coalition's own legal office will have an investigator to advise on the investigation.

TheAthletic reporter and former ESPN contributor Pablo Torre recently broke the news on the podcast program PTFO that an anonymous employee of Aspiration told him that there is a yin and yang contract between Clippers star Kawhi Leonard (hereinafter referred to as Xiao Ka) and his boss Ballmer to evade the NBA salary cap, and he used the posting endorsement contract to get an extra $28 million (4 years). According to an exclusive report by Boston Sports Journal, Xiaoka also received a secret surcharge contract worth $20 million, which will be paid in shares of Aspiration co-founder Joe Thunberg, who has pleaded guilty and pleaded guilty to fraudulent investors $248 million. In addition, Ballmer once purchased $50 million worth of stock for investment at a premium of $11 per share.

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