Nightcap Hour 2: Kawhi Leonard ALLEGEDLY Had Deal With Daktronics + Jaylen Brown UNFILTERED in Sixers PRESSER + Joel Embiid Looks SLIM + Wizards & AD Put HALT on Contract Talks + Nightcap BIG3 Preview + TI’s Son CAN’T DRIVE

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
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 I capital F asterisk, if this can be proven, if this is true, these allegations, Adam Silver is going to hammer. He has no choice.

**Joel Embiid** (0:47)
The Clippers.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:47)
He has no choice, Joel. Hammer who? He's going to have to punish Kawhi.

**Joel Embiid** (0:52)
Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (0:53)
Kawhi.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:53)
Absolutely. Absolutely.

**Joel Embiid** (0:56)
Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (0:57)
Wait, hold on. It wasn't Kawhi idea to try to find a way to escape the Salary Camp?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:02)
Absolutely. It was. Actually, because if we are 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 get 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 claims that Leonard served as the official spokesman of a company that Odell openly joked about being 1000% way to circumvent the salary cap.

**Joel Embiid** (1:37)
Now, listen.

**Chad Johnson** (1:38)
So the Clippers get no...

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:42)
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** (1:52)
They can make it go away.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:53)
Because the other 29 owners say, we could have done this.

**Joel Embiid** (1:56)
Yeah.
Yeah. There's repercussions to this, man.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:04)
What do you think the punishment should be, Joe? If this is proven, 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?

**Joel Embiid** (2:26)
I'm not sure what the punishment should be. Okay, Ocho, 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, him not going to LA and coming to the Clippers.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:44)
You feel what I'm saying?

**Joel Embiid** (2:45)
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.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:00)
Well, if they do that to the Clippers, it's over.

**Chad Johnson** (3:01)
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?

**Joel Embiid** (3:14)
Yeah, suspension.

**Chad Johnson** (3:15)
Well, for the whole season or just a few games?

**Joel Embiid** (3:17)
I ain't going to say the whole season, Joe, but it's going to hit him, yeah, it's going to be some M's that he going to miss behind this.

**Chad Johnson** (3:24)
Okay, so about 20 games, that's enough.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:28)
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 won 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.
Give people a choice.
So, they was like, that's why people had a hard time believing it. I don't know. I think they're doing their due diligence. They don't want to jump the gun. They don't want to overreact. But, man, when you worth $170 billion, Ocho, I mean, in the money, let's just say it was $30 million. Let's just say it was an extra $15 to $30 million. Man, you think that man missing that?