Get ready for more Aspirations to appear around the league.

So if no one is in danger of losing a job, and the Aspiration cloud passes, what’s left is a Clippers team with two supremely talented, older stars, a championship coach, and a committed front office trying to clean up this mess.

The propaganda 😭

We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing

Rich get away with something, must be a day the sun rises.

and a committed front office trying to clean up this mess.

hopefully they can find the people responsible for this

And this is why investigative journalism is on life support nowadays. What’s the point in putting yourself at risk to uncover this stuff when nobody cares and it gets swept under the rug anyways. The money always wins.

Just take away their first round picks in 26 and 27 and call it a day, and by that I mean OKC doesn’t get them either.

If the NBA does nothing about this, I’m 100% on the fire Adam silver train. 

This sucks. We got absolutely fucked by cap circumvention rendering us unable to build anything around KG. Now the Clippers will have nothing happen to them and weirdly in 2027 when they have all their capspace you’ll have some suspiciously low value contracts.

Of course not. It’s America and they are rich. They are above the law n

pr team working overtime for the clippers this week lol

“So if no one is in danger of losing a job, and the Aspiration cloud passes, what’s left is a Clippers team with two supremely talented, older stars, a championship coach, and a committed front office trying to clean up this mess.”

what is the need for this sentence if it’s not a completely pro-clippers article?

Unfortunately, the CBA is just 30 rich old dudes gentlemen’s agreement, its not this ultimate binding document of law

This like someone cheating in your fantasy league and you just move on but probably bring it up all the time and make fun of them for it 

They want a check with a memo line saying “Cap Space Circumventing”.

A video With audio of Baller directly handing the check to KL.

Also a video of KL cashing the check

That’s the standard.

Sources outside the organization share the Clippers’ belief that the league’s ongoing investigation ultimately will not uncover wrongdoing.

No indication from Vardon that these sources actually know anything about the league’s investigation – just what they “believe.”

Shocking

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Sounds like BS.

what a fucking joke

Just get rid of the cap at this point, whats stopping other teams from doing this now

If you let this go then you have set up the NBA to be flooded with “no show job” salary cap loopholes.

What how many players are going to willingly take smaller contracts now…

Just enough deniability to keep Ballmer from culpability. Sadly, that was quite predictable.

Collusion.

Yup… Giannis will be taking a “massive pay cut” to play for the Lakers and “sign a partnership” with a new “non-profit organization” called Inspiration then.

Adam Silver has made 1 good decision over his entire time as commissioner (play in), everything else has been fucking stupid and bad for the league. He will not stray from his streak of bullshit when it comes to Ballmer and the Clippers. At least we have bright off putting courts to showcase the NBA’s free throw competitions.

Salary cap dead then. Good for the Lakers at least

Yea unfortunately anyone with two brain cells knew this would be the likely outcome. Ballmer is gonna have to murder someone for the nba and the other owners to come down on him for anything.

Adam Silver needs to GO. He’s had such a detrimental impact on the NBA product. This is all the proof we need as fans to know that Silver is willing to make the NBA a worse product if it means keeping an unreasonably rich investor happy.

Probably not. It’s slowed down so much with public perception, the investigation is still going of course, but the lack of any more sparks there makes me think they blew their load. 

At a minimum we won’t hear a thing till after the All-Star break Ballmer’s stadium is hosting. But I don’t expect much of anything to come out of it at all. I think they’re generally hoping people forget and move on, which is probably a pretty decent bet. 

No way, not the super rich….they would never do anything like this. I totally believe these findings.

When he buy himself out of the situation obviously nones going to find any wrongdoing 

So if no one is in danger of losing a job, and the Aspiration cloud passes, what’s left is a Clippers team with two supremely talented, older stars, a championship coach, and a committed front office trying to clean up this mess.

When does this spin class meet on weeknights?

I remain convinced that Torre secretly has a smoking gun and is just BEGGING the NBA to clear the Clippers of wrong doing so he can release it in the most epic and embarrassing way possible

Pablo Torres in shambles 

it would be salt in the wound because the clippers want their money back.

We’re about to see some massive endorsement deals being handed out this Summer

I mean everybody knows that but you’re not supposed to say it this early. You gotta hold that til at least February

The clippers future is sufficiently F’d through their own doing, which has eased the small market teams thirst for blood. The league is now free to just sweep this all under the rug with a behind the scenes verbal warning to the owners to not get caught doing something like this again.

Got to think they will lose some viewers/fans from all this. It’s already hard enough for small market teams to compete without having to deal with the bigger clubs being able to pay under the table.

This is what happens when Ballmer is richer than all of the other owners combined. Bought his way out

The insanely wealthy surprisingly stay getting away with never have consequences or following the rules, a tale as old as time

People are saying it’s a waste for Pablo, but this result may invigorate media to continue to pursue stories post ruling

Truly wonderful precedent to set.

As long as you don’t write “for salary cap infringement” on the cheques, you’re could not possibly be infringing the salary cap!

This is great news for the Lakers! Terrible for the league and the sport in general, plus Adam Silver will look like an absolute schmuck and lose whatever shred of credibility he may have. Wealthy owners will make a complete mockery of the cap, the aprons, and the CBA as a concept.

In short, great news for the Lakers. This will pave the way for Giannis to join Bron, Luka and AR!

So the NBA is going to demand a higher burden of proof than its own rules ask for so they can turn a blind eye. This will set an awful, awful precedent.

The league investigation doesnt mean shit, its the Feds that matter. Considering they seem to be more about appearances though, I wouldnt hold my breath in that either

And then the FBI will get involved again and uncover wrongdoing.

Blazers new owners at Panda Express are about to sign a lot of players to million $ marketing contracts where they just have to stay on the Blazers. Tight tight tight.

Lol then why even have a salary cap in the first place? Just take it out of the agreements.

Pablo gonna be PISSED

Open the flood gates then.

It’s Adam silver. Enough said

I don’t know how they can punish them more at this point, being the Clippers seems to be enough.

The funniest part about this whole deal is the fact that the Clippers did screw up the competitive balance of the league with the move for Kawhi, however they did it by building a juggernaut in Oklahoma while they pay Kawhi double salary to play half the games and stink it up.

A pathetic but unsurprising result.

Giannis shall extend with a vet min contract for the team he gets traded to now.

#ACQUITTAL PARTY

Jesus Christ lol league is fucked.

Complete bullshit, the proof beyond a reasonable doubt is already out there. But we all knew this was coming because the league needs Ballmer’s money.

It’s real simple. Show a single instance where Kawhi Leonard did something for Aspiration whether it was a social media clip or a TV ad or anything. Show an announcement Aspiration did making it clear that Kawhi Leonard was now on their team any PR statement.

Mind you he was on the payroll for a long period of time that there should have been some kind of announcement for a multi-million dollar deal.

The fact that they never made an announcement and never gave any hint that he was on their payroll mixed with the consistent payments that they needed to pay him in order to keep him on their payroll and the fact that the Raptors said very clearly that his agent had asked for this exact deal from them.

This is the most blatant obvious circumvention you’ve ever seen. Is there a single piece of paper that says yeah I did it no. But there is enough factual evidence that cannot be explained as anything else.

But the league wants proof that Aspiration gave Leonard the contract explicitly at the Clippers’ request, so that he could earn more money without it counting against the NBA salary cap, and the team insists that’s not what happened.

Of course they weren’t stupid enough to send the money marked for Kawhi with a note saying “FOR CAP CIRCUMVENTION”. How fucking stupid does the NBA think the general public is? If that is what it takes to make this “against the rules” then you are going to see this all over the league. Adam Silver is a fucking clown.

Shit is so corrupt it’s not even funny.

No shit Shirlock! In America, a billionaire can avoid prison for raping kids on an Island!?!?!?…………….Republicans will even defend your child raping! So of fucking course NBA billionaires will face no consequences!!!!! Is anyone paying attention to the shithole that has become America lately!?!?!?!

Pablo Torre rn

This ruins the integrity of the league.

Welcome to Aspiration, Giannis. 10m for every tree you plant ❤️.

I don’t believe this is true though. The NBA/Silver would have to be fully retar*ed to let this go unpunished.

The NBA has decided to stop pretending its any different from WWE

CP3 was getting to close to the truth so they had to axe him

If they do nothing it feels like they’re dooming the league. Money controls are the only tools they have, and if they just let billionaires ignore them then what’s the point?

No one explicitly admits to fraud unless they want secret recordings. 

The nba will investigate themselves and tell everyone there was no wrongdoing lol. 

David Stern would’ve wrecked the Clippers over this. Stern had his issues but he’s dearly missed.

That was fun drama while it lasted tbh

We didn’t ask for it, the league just happens to be curious about a contract that magically lets Leonard earn extra cash without touching the cap.

If there’s an article out there supporting the clippers in the aspiration scandal, or a random 5 second clip. You know the biggest clippers water carryer on this site is going to find it and post it here.

Not surprised. Balmer has silver in his pocket

If that’s true, does the second apron even matter anymore? What’s stopping OKC from doing exactly what Ballmer did to pay their role players under the table and retain Cason, Ajay, Hartenstein, etc without going over the tax?

Ya we know

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Their org being an absolute dumpster fire will have to be punishment enough for now, I suppose

They have nothing to gain and probably don’t want to call out what is a much bigger problem leaguewide

r/nba on watch tonight

Sure Adam

Silver to Ballmer: Cut the check

Disgusting

I predict they will penalize the Thunder Clippers by moving their 2026 and 2027 first round picks to the end of the round.

There is nothing the investigation could find that would ever change the minds of people in this subreddit. I’m not saying the Clippers are definitively innocent, but it’s clear that even if they are the court of public opinion has already decided otherwise. Every thread on this topic reflects that.

How on earth will other teams be okay with this?

Jfc

It COULD. But it will NOT.