New reporting from Pablo Torres says Kawhi also had side deal with Daktronics, the company that manufactured the scoreboard for the Clippers new arena, that was, quote, 1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap.
The Clippers and Kawhi both need to be hit hard.
So they buy all the scoreboards from Daktronics that should cost say $10M but pay $15M and then Daktronics gives Kawhi a $5M endorsement deal for which he does nothing?
I don't doubt this but seems hard to prove.
Hardest part to prove is the cost of the board. From what I understand, there's nothing like it in any arena anywhere. It'd be hard to argue that the board's market value was less than the Clippers paid for it.
Two questions come to my mind:
1. I always thought it was weird George and Leonard picked the Clippers. Would Leonard have gone elsewhere if he wasn't getting these side deals? Would that have shaped the league differently?
2. I really hope that Paul George is not connected to some of these deals to circumvent the cap. We don't need that headache on top of everything else.
