In media day Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank was asked if Uncle Dennis has ever asked for any extra money on Kawhi’s behalf to circumvent the salary cap. “Dennis knows the rules, Kawhi knows the rules, we know the rules.” “Is that a yes or no” “Yes, we all know the rules.”

For Kawhi during media day, he initially called the reporting about $48,000,000 no-show Aspiration deal "conspiracy theories", but then said that more than $7,000,000 from the deal wasn't paid due to the company going bankrupt, and didn't provide an answer to a direct question of what he did to earn the money, saying it was a long time ago.