Best of NBA News Part 1: MORE DEALS between Kawhi Leonard and Clippers REVEALED + Monta Ellis on SAME LEVEL as Steph Curry

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
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Wow, according to Pablo Torre, Kawhi Leonard allegedly, allegedly, had an undisclosed multimillion dollar deal with Daktronics, the company that built the Intuit Dome halo board. Clipper officials openly discussed this as a way to bypass the salary cap. Money was funneled to Kawhi through Daktronics.
If IF is the biggest word in the English language, I capital F asterisk, if this can be proven, if this is true, these allegations, Adam Silver's gonna hammer. He has no choice.

**Chad Johnson** (1:01)
The Clippers.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:02)
He has no choice, Joe.

**Chad Johnson** (1:03)
Hammer who?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:04)
He's gonna have to punish Kawhi.

**Chad Johnson** (1:07)
Yeah. Kawhi?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:08)
Absolutely. Absolutely.

**Chad Johnson** (1:11)
Yeah. Wait, hold on.
It wasn't Kawhi idea to try to find a way to the ass through to escape the salary cap?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:17)
Well, actually, because if we're to believe what was reported originally is that his uncle Dennis went to Toronto and tried to get things that would have been illegal, which would have been a salary cap violation. When he went and talked to the Lakers, allegedly, what was reported is that he tried to get things. A source in Torrey's report claimed that Leonard served as the official spokesman of a company that a deal openly joked about being 1,000 percent way to circumvent the salary cap.
Now listen.

**Chad Johnson** (1:52)
So the Clippers get no...

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:57)
The Clippers, if this is true, the NBA don't want it to be true.
But let me tell you who does want it to be true. The other 29 owners.

**Chad Johnson** (2:07)
They can make it go away.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:07)
Because the other 29 owners say we could have done this.
Yeah, yeah, there's repercussions to this. Go ahead. So what do you think the punishment should be, Joe? If this is proven, if there is, right now there's a lot of circumstantial evidence. But if they were to find a smoking gun, what do you think the punishment should be for the Clippers? And what should the punishment be for Kawhi?
Hey, hey, I'm not sure what the punishment should be, Unc and Ochocinco, but it's going to be egregious. Because when this first came about, man, y'all remember me, I was like, man, you know, I hate to say it, but I kind of think it's some truth to this, you know, because I felt like that probably could have been a deal breaker of him not going to LA and coming to the Clippers. You feel what I'm saying? So obviously I hate that it's kind of, you know, came to this point, it's came to the forefront. And we really don't really know if it's really true, but yeah, man, they're going to punish, they're going to punish Kawhi and the Clippers. I'm talking about draft picks, it's going to be bad, man.

**Chad Johnson** (3:14)
Well, if they do that to the Clippers, it's over. Hold on, Joe, listen, I got a question, too, Joe. Now, when you say it's going to be bad when it comes to punishing someone like Kawhi that has played a very long time, that's made a lot of money, what kind of punishment do you think? Are we talking about suspension or just taking?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:28)
Yeah, suspension.

**Chad Johnson** (3:30)
Well, for the whole season or just a few games?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:31)
I ain't going to say the whole season, but it's going to hit him. Yeah, it's going to be some M's that he's going to miss behind this.

**Chad Johnson** (3:38)
Okay, so about 20 games, that's enough.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:42)
I think the thing is that when you look at it, we heard rumblings and everybody said, well, when this was talked about, when he signed with the Clippers and everybody said, it's sour grapes because you didn't get enough to sign them, it was reported. Toronto said, no, we can't do this. This circumvents the salary cap, we're getting trouble. It was reported that Jeannie Buzz said, we can't do this. We can't give you a condo. We can't give you this. We can't do that. That's what was reported at the time. Everybody said it was because everybody's saying this now because he signed with the Clippers. One organization is the Lakers. The other organization you just want a championship with, and you go to an organization that's been dormant for years and years and years, and people couldn't understand why. Money's comparable.