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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, …

Taylor Swift had the “Eras Tour.” Now, the Brooklyn Nets have “Era Nights.” For Nets fans of all ages, Barclays Center is becoming a celebration of the franchise’s past, present and future in the coming season with six different celebrations. The biggest surprise? The Nets will host Swamp Dragons Night on January 29, 2027, when they face the Los Angeles …

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and NBA have each reached out to scoreboard manufacturer Daktronics, seeking information about the company’s dealings with Kawhi Leonard. This comes as the findings of the NBA-backed investigation into Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers concerning alleged salary cap circumvention still have not been announced. Advertisement Howard Atkins, acting chief financial officer of Daktronics, …

The Cleveland Cavaliers are sticking with the theme of having a destination training camp. But unlike the last two seasons, when they took a quick plane ride south to Sarasota, Florida, to train at IMG Academy, the Cavs will be taking a much longer trip across the pond as they’ll be conducting training camp in Spain. Cleveland will be holding …

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Warriors fans and fans across the country. Golden State Warriors fans have been blessed to get to watch Steph Curry play for 17 years now. It’s been one hell of a journey, filled with four championships, two MVP …

Noah Clowney and the Brooklyn Nets surely have greater ambitions than winning social media, fan-voted awards, especially on the cusp of a new season. However, it still would’ve been nice to do so. This week, the NBA announced the winners for its 2026 NBA ID Fan Favorites, which fans vote on across the NBA App, its website and social handles …

Warriors reportedly letting Steph Curry decide contract extension structure originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area What will Steph Curry’s forthcoming Warriors contract extension look like? Pretty much whatever he wants it to. Advertisement It is no secret that the superstar and Golden State soon will come to terms on a lucrative contract extension before his 18th NBA season, but …

The Cleveland Cavaliers are in a tough salary cap position. Because they’re hard-capped at the first apron after completing the sign-and-trade for Peyton Watson, they needed to sign someone with zero years of NBA experience to remain under that threshold. To accomplish this, they signed 2022 second-round pick Khalifa Diop. Diop is a 24-year-old, 6’11” center from Senegal. He’s spent …

With the signings of Klay Thompson, Peyton Watson and James Harden completed (well, Harden has yet to put pen to paper, but it’s coming), actual NBA news has slowed to a trickle as we enter September. That will ramp up in the coming weeks, but here are some news and notes from things still happening. Curry extension options Stephen Curry …