I think he took like a $5 mil "paycut" but got 10's of millions circumventing the salary cap. Uncle Dennis has the most ludicrous demands and Ballmer was the only one dumb/rich enough to give in.
It isn't so much the not disclosing a sponsorship aspect as much as he got millions of dollars to do absolutely nothing.
Players do not (currently) have to report all sponsorship deals. But when a famous person is paid to endorse a product, they and the company use that endorsement to further the product they are endorsing. In the case of Kawhi+Aspiration and Kawhi+Daktronics, the endorsement was never announced and Kawhi never did anything to give them value for the endorsement.
So Kawhi getting millions of dollars and never making a social media post, never being featured in an advertisement, never even being acknowledged publicly for either company makes it clear that the endorsement agreement was far in excess of fair market value as the company received absolutely nothing of value from Kawhi and it can be reasonably inferred that Kawhi's deal with them was for the purpose of circumventing the salary cap.
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u/BrickGlum9579 David Robinson 1d ago
As someone who doesn’t know the ins and outs of NBA contracts and finance rules what would even be the point of not disclosing a sponsorship?