Vince Staples stars in Kawhi Leonard’s drama Aspiration

Rapper and actor Vince Staples spoke Los Angeles Clippers a veteran Kawhi Leonard and the drama surrounding his Aspiration endorsement deal. Clippers owner Aspiration investors are suing Steve Ballmer in response to the bombshell surrounding Leonard’s reported no-show contract that paid $28 million over four years.

Staples, a local Long Beach rap artist who helped the Clippers recruit Leonard in 2019 free agency. his view of the scandalat 7 pm in Brooklyn.

“They worked the hardest, man. They really wanted him on the team,” Staples said, referring to the Clippers’ recruiting process. “I think it was a good plan too, you know what I mean? Only, the boys got hurt when they tried to catch that boy with that suitcase for their trees. Nobody wanted to take the case, man. They should have planted those trees. Everything would have been different. Somebody could have planted those trees.”

“Bro, they could go to Home Depot – get them a joint. Twenty bucks a piece. Fifty bucks a piece, Put them trees in the ground, bro. And they’d be gone,” Staples concluded.

Kawhi/Clippers Tree Planting Scandal Would Make Vince Staples Different 🤣

“They could have gone down to Home Depot … $20 a piece, $50 a piece, put trees in the ground and it would all be gone.” pic.twitter.com/Bn89RVDMV7

— 7PM in Brooklyn (@7PMinBrooklyn) November 14, 2025

There is no record of Leonard backing Aspiration, the now-bankrupt tree-planting company that investigative reporter Pablo Torre says Ballmer and the Clippers used as a way to get around the salary cap. Former employees of the company came forward with the information, because many people in the company were familiar. The NBA’s investigation into the matter is ongoing.

Steve Ballmer is reportedly being sued by former Aspirations investors

It was a tough season in 2025-26. — on and off the court — for the Clippers, according to investigative reporter Pablo Torre report on the Aspirations deal with the Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard set an ominous tone. A 3-8 start followed, the fourth-worst record in the Western Conference.

Off the pitch, it’s Ballmer named in the new suitaccording to Torre’s podcast Pablo Finds Out.

“PLOOM: Steve Ballmer is being sued by Aspiration investors over alleged scheme to ‘secretly funnel millions’ to Kawhi Leonard,” Pablo Torre Finds Out reported on X, formerly Twitter.

Torre was the reporter who originally broke the story about the alleged no-show deal, and this latest evidence certainly doesn’t look good for the Clippers.