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Does the NBA have enough to punish the Clippers?

The Athletic NBA Daily

The Athletic

Comedy, Unknown, Sports, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour is joined by Mike Vorkunov of the Athletic to discuss the ongoing saga of the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. Mike discusses his original reporting as well as what Pablo Torre has reported on his show.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Mike Vorkunov

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody


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He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...

0:09.0

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0:14.0

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0:39.5

went down a storm. And I spotted a jockey wearing pink in the parade ring, so we had to back him. Sue picked the winner in the big race. We got a bottle with the winning. Next thing you know, she's got us all on the dance floor. I've still got the moves. Her dancing was hilarious. We've already booked to come again.

0:52.6

Watch out for the ladies in pink.

0:54.5

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0:56.5

The Going is Good.

0:57.8

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1:32.5

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1:47.2

Welcome back to the NBA Daily.

1:49.8

I'm Dave Dufour here with Mike Vorkinoff, who covers the intersection of sport and business,

1:53.5

in particular basketball.

1:55.4

And you guys know, we're talking about Kauai Leonard

1:57.9

and the L.A. Clippers and their owner, Steve Balmer. Mike, how's the last couple weeks been for you, man? That sure has been a very quiet NBA summer, hasn't it? Like, we're all just kind of relaxing, chilling here, joy in our Labor Day weekends. Yeah, I mean, I was trying to just, I wanted to watch Eurobasket and just like as a fan.

2:17.6

And, you know, I've been able to do that.

2:19.8

I'm not going to lie.

2:20.7

But this, this Kauai Clipper story is distracted and just kind of taken up a lot of my attention.

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