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With it being almost a week since the Cody Williams trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the dust has settled. But we haven’t really gotten a pulse on exactly how Jazz fans felt about it. That’s the center of the question for this week’s Utah Jazz Reacts survey. Did you feel like it was enough? Was it not enough? Was it …

In a decision we’ve been waiting nearly a year to hear, the NBA has finally ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers circumvention investigation. The case was originally uncovered by Pablo Torre and centered on Kawhi Leonard and Aspiration, a company that allegedly paid Leonard to serve as an ambassador while potentially functioning as a mechanism to provide him additional compensation …

A day short of a full year since Pablo Torre unearthed evidence that the Los Angeles Clippers under owner Steve Ballmer circumvented the NBA’s salary cap in their dealings with star forward Kawhi Leonard, the league released the findings of its own investigation into the franchise and Leonard. The 35-page report from the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & …

The San Antonio Spurs have officially announced DAZN as their exclusive media rights partner for the 2026-2027 season. Last month, DAZN announced deals with several other NBA teams, filling the gap that regional sports networks left behind after closing up shop. A deal with San Antonio was strongly suggested but was not official until now. In a deal similar to …

Adam Silver and the NBA brought the hammer down on the Clippers. Announcing the findings and penalties from a year-long investigation into the Clippers using team sponsors and business partners to circumvent the salary cap and funnel more money to Kawhi Leonard, the league came down with the harshest penalties in league history: Advertisement • The Clippers surrender five first-round …

Ideally, you don’t want an ownership change to come right in the middle of a restructuring of a front office and franchise philosophy. It tends to cause some issues. The Lakers find themselves in an awkward position. The Dodgerizing of the front office was well underway when Mark Walter abruptly sold the team to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner. Advertisement …

The NBA dropped the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers and team owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday, and the Clippers are vowing to fight back. The league released the long-awaited results of its investigation into allegations that the Clippers circumvented the NBA’s salary cap in its dealings with All-Star Kawhi Leonard and multiple third-party vendors. Advertisement The league concluded that …

Shortly after NBA commissioner Adam Silver handed the Los Angeles Clippers the most severe punishment for salary cap circumvention in over a quarter of a century, star forward Kawhi Leonard, the central figure of the yearlong investigation, released a statement: “Integrity and respect for this game are fundamental to who I am. I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment …

Adam Silver didn’t just drop the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. He busted out the sledgehammer and called in the wrecking ball for good measure. Make no mistake about it, the commissioner sent a message on Wednesday. Not just to the Clippers. He cc’d the entire NBA and anyone who dared to think about the words, “cap circumvention.” Advertisement …

Pablo Torre, the journalist whose reporting led the NBA to crack down on the Los Angeles Clippers for circumventing the league salary cap rules, said he is not done with the story. “There is more to come than is in the NBA report,” Torre said Wednesday, Sept. 2 during his podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out. “This is not everything.” Advertisement …

“This is a historic moment for our organization and our fans,” Lawrence Frank said in a statement on July 10, 2019. And oh, man, does “historic” not even begin to cover it. Frank, the president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Clippers, delivered that cherry quote up near the top of the press release officially announcing the signing of …

Fines, suspensions, forfeited picks and temporary league banishment. Those were the consequences the NBA came down with following their investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers for salary cap circumvention tactics with their superstar Kawhi Leonard. Advertisement The hammer came down hard on the Clippers, Leonard and those found to be involved with the investigation. The league said it “found a …

What was the final cost for the Los Angeles Clippers acquiring Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in 2019? Just as the organization had finally paid off their significant draft pick haul of five first rounders, two pick swaps and future two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to Oklahoma City to secure Leonard’s running mate from seven years ago, the NBA dropped the …

Adam Silver didn’t just drop the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. He busted out the sledgehammer and called in the wrecking ball for good measure. Make no mistake about it, the commissioner sent a message on Wednesday. Not just to the Clippers. He cc’d the entire NBA and anyone who dared to think about the words, “cap circumvention.” Advertisement …

When it comes to salary cap subterfuge, as it does with practically all white-collar shenanigans, it pays to insulate. This is why the NBA flattened the Los Angeles Clippers, owner Steve Ballmer and various other key figures in the Kawhi Leonard salary cap circumvention scheme with crushing penalties. Advertisement It’s also why Leonard, the player who seemingly pocketed millions of …

Count me among the cynics who thought that Steve Ballmer was simply too rich, too friendly with NBA commissioner Adam Silver, and had too many lawyers to face serious punishment for his team’s blatant attempts to circumvent the salary cap with a series of shady endorsement deals for Kawhi Leonard. The punishment Silver and the NBA handed down Wednesday is …

The long-awaited results of the NBA’s investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers’ alleged salary cap circumvention practices were finally released on Wednesday, Sept. 2, and the fallout is just beginning. Among the punishments handed out, the Clippers must forfeit five first-round draft picks and pay a $30 million fine. Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers’ superstar at the heart of the scandal, …

Here is the NBA’s investigation into allegations the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement. The NBA handed down sweeping penalties to Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, team executives, the team and Kawhi Leonard following an investigation. The Clippers said in a statement that they “vehemently reject the NBA’s findings” and vowed to challenge them. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Read …

Subscribe to The Kevin O’Connor Show On today’s emergency edition of the Kevin O’Connor Show, KOC reacts to the latest breaking news in the Kawhi Leonard saga. The NBA doled out punishment to the LA Clippers, Steve Ballmer and Kawhi for salary cap circumvention. What’s next for the Los Angeles? Hear what KOC has to say on this special episode! …

The NBA issued stiff penalties for the Los Angeles Clippers, team owner Steve Ballmer and their former star forward Kawhi Leonard on Wednesday, Sept. 2, after an 11-month investigation found they violated salary cap circumvention rules. The league levied fines of $30 million for the Clippers and $700,000 fine for Leonard, who denied any knowledge of wrongdoing but said he …

The NBA came down hard on the Los Angeles Clippers for violating salary cap circumvention rules. The league announced significant penalties and fines for the Clippers organization, owner Steve Ballmer, former star Kawhi Leonard and other team executives in relation to their role in the scandal after releasing the findings of an 11-month independent investigation. Advertisement A law firm commissioned …

The LA Clippers have been fined $30m (£22.2m) by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for violating salary rules in order to funnel millions of dollars to star player Kawhi Leonard. The fine – the largest in the league’s history – comes after the NBA report said Leonard pressured the Clippers into “obtaining off-court income opportunities [and] successfully obtaining those opportunities”. …

Editor’s note: Follow along for live updates on the NBA punishments handed out to Kawhi Leonard and the L.A. Clippers. The long NBA investigation into Kawhi Leonard the Los Angeles Clippers came to a conclusion Wednesday when the league issued punishments to the team, several of its executives and the star who was since traded to the Toronto Raptors. Advertisement …

The NBA came down on Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers hard on Wednesday afternoon.  The league announced that it had stripped the Clippers of five first-round draft picks and fined Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, among other things, after it had determined that the team circumvented the salary cap rules.  Advertisement Journalist Pablo Torre, who first unveiled the possible …

The NBA has stripped the Los Angeles Clippers of five first-round draft picks and fined owner Steve Ballmer $30 million at the conclusion of its probe into alleged salary cap circumvention with All-Star Kawhi Leonard. The league is also fining Leonard $700,000. Advertisement The NBA announced the decision Wednesday. The Clippers will be stripped of first-round picks in the 2029, …