'Smoking Gun' Revealed in Shocking New Revelations in Kawhi Leonard Scandal

This is almost certainly the so-called "Smoking Gun" that everyone was looking for. The alleged proof that the LA Clippers were involved with the tree-planting company at the center of the Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention scandal.

Investigator Pablo Torre has revealed documents that show that Clippers minority owner Dennis Wong (also the alternate governor to Steve Ballmer, and Ballmer's college roommate) made a $2M payment to the nearly-bankrupt company Aspiration just days before Leonard was due his quarterly $1.75M payment from the company. None of Aspiration's other employees got paid in the days to follow. But Kawhi did.

"Is this a smoking gun?"@PabloTorre unveils "the single most indicting piece of documentary evidence" in his Kawhi Leonard investigation so far: a mysterious payment from the Clippers' co-owner. pic.twitter.com/oOnA7pjpOq
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) September 11, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Kawhi Leonard's $1.75M "no-show" payday was running late.

Then, per new documents obtained by @PabloTorre, the Clippers' co-owner invested $1.99M in the team's broke sponsor.

Nine days later, Kawhi got paid.

"It is beyond shocking," an Aspiration executive says. pic.twitter.com/yxOYGfo3dZ
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) September 11, 2025

And by the way, Wong's daughter was employed by Aspiration.

NBA insider Tom Haberstroh said on Yahoo Sports that he indeed feels this is the "smoking gun."

"If you didn't think the initial report was the smoking gun, THIS IS the smoking gun. This is an explosive report from Pablo Torre...

"(It's) potentially the biggest scandal of the century in the NBA... What we're seeing is that... a miraculous payment, while the company was spinning down the drain financially and were dry of funds, came from the co-owner of the LA Clippers!"

"If I'm the other owners, and if I'm a fan of the NBA, I look at the totality of the evidence presented at this point, and I say, 'What else do I need to see?'...

"You have to drop the hammer on Steve Ballmer."

Of course, Haberstroh is right. The integrity of the league will be seriously impacted if the NBA does not severely punish Ballmer and the Clippers. It would be open season for teams to circumvent the cap using similar means.

Right now, it's safe to say that Pablo Torre is Steve Ballmer and Adam Silver's worst nightmare.