"Hey, if you can do it, you can do it! If you get away with it, you get away with it. But I tell you this - where there's smoke, there's fire. If the NBA thinks that you are wrong about doing stuff like that. They're gonna get you, they're gonna get you. I say this - I'm not for sure. I'm not sure."
"I've heard things. I heard things, just like a lot of people have heard things, that a lot of that has been going on. We are talking about the 80s, the 90s. A lot of that has been going on. Under the salary cap, you can't pay 'em this, you can't pay 'em that. Just don't get caught! I'm gonna tell you this. Pat Riley tried to pay two people $20 million. Over $20 million a year."
Opinion holds that salary-cap circumvention has long occurred in the NBA and that enforcement depends on detection. When the league uncovers wrongdoing, it can impose suspensions, fines, void or reverse payments, and other penalties. Similar conduct is traced to the 1980s and 1990s, when teams sought ways to compensate players beyond cap limits. A cited example involves attempts to pay two players more than $20 million per year, prompting league scrutiny and consequences in 1996. The contemporary controversy centers on a 2021 Clippers contract involving Kawhi Leonard and is not directly tied to his earlier Toronto tenure. Reported demands by Leonard's camp to the Raptors provide additional context.
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