LA Clippers Scandal Deepens & Jimmy Butler Steps Into Warriors/Kuminga Negotiations

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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New revelations rock the NBA as the LA CLIPPERS face mounting scrutiny over potential salary cap violations. Wes Goldberg, Tony East and Haize dissect Steve Ballmer's investments in Aspiration, Adam Silver's problematic responses, and whether Kawhi Leonard needs to make a public statement. Then, the trio explores the concentration of draft picks among five teams, debating its impact on competitive balance, and Jonathan Kuminga's contract negotiations with the Golden State Warriors and Jimmy Butler's surprising involvement.

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0:00.0	On today's show, more details and more money are uncovered in the Clippers scandal.
0:04.7	How much more does the NBA need to see?
0:06.4	Plus, is the league facing a potential disaster with the NBA draft?
0:10.6	All of that more.
0:11.4	It's Locked on NBA.
0:19.1	You are Locked on NBA. Your daily NBA podcast. Part of the Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:23.9	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:30.9	All right, welcome back to Locked-on NBA.
0:33.3	However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your podcast app, thanks so much for making
0:36.6	Locked-on NBA your first listen every day.
0:40.1	I'm Wes Goldberg,
0:40.8	and today we are talking about the league's looming problem with the NBA draft
0:44.3	and a Warriors star getting involved in the Jonathan Caminga stalemate.
0:48.8	We're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts,
0:50.6	and as always I have two of the best with me from the Lockdown Pacers podcast and my co-host on L'Octon NBA game nights on Tuesday nights. It is Tony East. And from the Lockdown Bulls podcast, he's also Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report. It's Hayes. Hayes, how we feeling this morning? So far so good. Closer and closer to the Friday. That's always good, right closer and closer to friday that's always good right
1:11.3	and closer to media day for NBA team so we're getting there we are certainly getting there
1:18.1	media day should be really interesting in los angeles for the clippers because as always we have
1:23.5	more developments on the kawai le scandal with Pablo Tori reporting this morning
1:27.8	that Steve Balmer put even more money into aspiration than was initially reported.
1:32.0	What's interesting about this, guys, is that Mark Cuban, who has been a loud supporter of
1:37.8	Steve Balmer throughout this whole process and has tried to poke holes in Tori's reporting
1:43.0	here.
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