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Trade Radar · open rumor · Monday, September 7 · 19 h ago

Significant Transactions That Have Yet To Be Finalized

via hoopsrumorsRead the original report ↗

The Clippers agreed to trade Kawhi Leonard to the Raptors on June 30, but that blockbuster deal has been on hold until the NBA competed its investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented the salary cap to pay Leonard through a series of “no-show” endorsement deals. The league announced the results of that investigation last week, […]

Confidence
45%
Reporter starting tier45unattributed report
Corroboration+0nobody else has reported this yet
Age01 day old · a rumor loses 1.2 points a day, up to 25
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Who it involves
Kawhi Leonard
Kawhi Leonard
Clippers · F · 27.9 pts · 6.4 reb · 3.6 ast
Cap hit 2026-27: $50.30M · expiring
LA Clippers
$196.9M · over the cap · 18 contracts · cap sheet
Toronto Raptors
$202.7M · in the tax · 17 contracts · cap sheet

What would have to happen

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Kawhi LeonardRaptors
Send out at least $40.04M
The Raptors are in the tax, so to take on $50.30M they need to send out $40.04M or more under the 125% + $250k rule.

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