Marc Lasry discusses Steve Ballmer Kawhi Leonard payment
Former Milwaukee Bucks partner Marc Lasry said that Steve Ballmer, owner of La Clippers, did not believe that he was trying to survive the NBA’s salary limit by working with a third -party company to secretly pay in 2021.
“This is not something I can’t believe, Las Lasry said in a special interview with CNBC. “I always found him to follow the rules and do the right thing.”
Journalist and Podcast Server Pablo Torre Reported at the beginning of this month That Leonard signed a sponsorship agreement of 28 million dollars with a company called Aspiration. The agreement required that the NBA did not do anything with aspiration to collect the money.
Ballmer invested $ 50 million aspiration. Torre said that the resources in the aspiration were to survive the league’s salary limit by paying Leonard to Leonard’s purpose. He launched an investigation based on NBA reports.
Lasry said there was always pressure to win in the NBA, but “there is no pressure to skirt the rules.”
“Everyone in the NBA knows the rules. You follow it, and that’s because you don’t, you know you’ll have a lot of problems if you don’t.”
Ballmer and Clippers rejected the allegations of salary limit. The founding partners who applied for bankruptcy earlier this year accused of fraud.
“I think it’s probably a lot of smoke, but I don’t think it’s too much there, Las Lasry said.
In 2023, Lasry agreed to sell his shares in Bucks. Cleveland Browns Owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam A valuation of $ 3.5 billion.
