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Big Technology Podcast · Friday, September 4, 2026

NBA Investigates Clippers' Alleged Scheme to Pay Kawhi Leonard to Skip Games

Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers are reportedly under NBA investigation for a scheme where they allegedly paid Kawhi Leonard a significant amount of money to not show up for certain games. This tactic is believed to have been used to circumvent the NBA's salary cap rules.

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We're also going to talk about the hugging face attack. And there was also another attack according to a new Reuters report where bots coordinated on a German wiki website.
Alex
And finally, uh, Steve Balmer. The legacy does not look good. Uh, of course, we're talking about the fact that he was directly involved in this, uh, scheme where the Clippers paid Kawhi Leonard according to the NBA, lots of money to not show up to certain jobs to subvert the NBA salary cap.
Alex
Kawhi Leonard was paid to not show up.
Alex
Heard on Big Technology Podcast — “GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy, published Friday, September 4, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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