Pablo Torre Reveals Boingo Paid Kawhi $1.9M – New Twist In Clippers' Intuit Dome Scandal

Pablo Torre Drops a New Bombshell in the Clippers Investigation

Pablo Torre, on his show Pablo Torre Finds Out, has surfaced another unexpected thread in the long-running Los Angeles Clippers salary-cap controversy. Torre reported that Boingo Wireless – the team’s sponsor and the wireless provider at the Intuit Dome – is now tied to $1.9 million in payments to Kawhi Leonard and an entity labeled a "CLIP" account.

How Boingo Enters the Picture

Payments disguised as endorsements

According to Torre’s reporting, Boingo listed the $1.9 million sum as compensation for an endorsement appearance. But the actual, documented work Leonard performed under that invoice appears to have been a single, one-hour military photo-op with the Marine Corps Community Service Division at Camp Pendleton in August 2022.

"Those Marines were unknowingly turned into props in something they didn’t sign up for – that feels wrong," said a former Boingo employee when describing the arrangement.

The Camp Pendleton Photo-op – Small Event, Big Money

One hour accounted for hundreds of thousands

Torre’s piece notes that one hour of that Camp Pendleton event was valued at $672,000 of the total payout. The former Boingo executive who spoke with Torre called the setup "really gross," pointing out that the deployed Marines had no idea they were being used in a payment scheme tied to the Clippers’ salary-cap maneuvering.

Photos from the event weren’t posted to Boingo’s social channels, though the Marines themselves did share images publicly. Present at the photo shoot were Kawhi Leonard, "Uncle Dennis" Robertson, and Jerry Castleberry – who at the time was working as an assistant under Ty Lue with the Clippers.

Punitive Fallout for the Clippers

Historic penalties and individual fines

The Clippers already endured the harshest penalties in NBA history for manipulating their salary cap in relation to Leonard. Owner Steve Ballmer received a one-year suspension and the organization was hit with a $30 million fine. The club also forfeited five consecutive first-round draft picks, spanning 2029 to 2033.

President of business operations Gillian Zuker was suspended for one year without pay, while basketball operations chief Lawrence Frank received a six-month suspension. Kawhi Leonard, who is now with the Toronto Raptors following the trade and the league’s investigation, was fined $700,000 by the NBA.

Where This Leaves the Story

The Boingo revelation from Torre adds another hidden channel to the list of alleged methods the Clippers used to skirt salary-cap rules – joining names like Aspiration and Daktronics that have already come up in reporting. It raises fresh questions about sponsor involvement and how endorsement payments were structured around the Intuit Dome partnership.

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