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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 5498616, member: 767"]
It would be as much of a priority as anything else, no?  It's an obligation they have.

No.  Steve Ballmer invested in the company.  No one is denying that.  He's claiming he was defrauded by them.  You can believe that or not. (he probably was at least in part defrauded by them, the guy who ran the company literally plead guilty to fraud) Kawhi and two companies representing the Clippers are both creditors in the bankruptcy filing, per Mike Vorkunov at the Athletic today.  (Initially i was responding to someone asking if Ballmer got defrauded, why isn't he suing)

This company had a number of "endorsement deals" that were basically fictitious.  Matt Levine wrote about them last week

I think that is a possibility here; Kawhi actually gave them say $27 million dollars, they booked it as revenue, and then they paid him $28 million (you can make up whatever numbers you like) and hid the expense.  The alleged Kawhi deal does kinda sound like what is described above, no?  That said, if that were the case,  obviously you'd think Kawhi would be able to prove that.  If he was interested in doing so, of course.

Another possibility; Ballmer invested the money with the company explicitly for the purpose of it going to Kawhi to circumvent the cap!  Not trying to say there's no chance of that, but this company did have other examples of situations that seem pretty close to the Kawhi deal that would not involve circumvention.
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