According to previous reports, The Athletic reporter Pablo Torre broke the news on a podcast program that there is a yin-yang contract between Clippers star Leonard and boss Ballmer to evade the salary cap. The league has learned about the media's reports on the suspected violations of the Clippers and will investigate this.

It is reported that there is a false endorsement contract between Clippers star Leonard and the bankrupt carbon neutral company Aspiration, which is worth $28 million for four years, but the job actually doesn't exist at all. The agreement also stipulates that Leonard must stay in the Clippers to get the full $28 million and cannot switch teams or retire. Relevant sources revealed that Leonard's contract was to evade the salary cap.

It is understood that Aspiration has received a secret investment of $50 million in Clippers boss Ballmer, and has also reached a multi-year sponsorship agreement with the Clippers. Among the Aspiration bankruptcy filings, the largest creditor is the Los Angeles Clippers, the second is the company's Forum Entertainment owned by Ballmer, and a small company tied for third place owed $7 million, its name is KL2 Aspire, and the manager registered on the company's documents is Leonard.

At present, many US media and famous reporters have reposted this report and expressed their concern about the matter. The Clippers issued a statement on behalf of the team and Ballmer: "Mr. Ballmer and the Clippers have never evaded the salary cap or engaged in any misconduct through Aspiration, and any objection can be proven to be false."

Before Leonard's contract was investigated this time, the player who was investigated by the NBA for suspected signing a Yin-Yang contract was still Andre Kirilenko. In the summer of 2013, Kirilenko jumped out of the last year's contract with the Timberwolves and chose to join the Nets with a mini middle class contract ($6.5 million for two years). After the signing was completed, some senior executives and bosses of competing teams were hinting that Kirilenko had a private deal with the then Russian Nets boss Prokorov, and several team owners complained to the league. After

, the league launched an investigation into the incident, including Nets officials, who were also called during the summer league weekend. A source said to the league's investigation: "This is a very thorough investigation, and the league has investigated everything."

Then, the NBA officially released the results of the investigation by the Nets and Kirirenko, but in the end, no violations were found between the two sides.