He didn’t get to be this rich by following rules, regulations and laws.

Ballmer was paying Kawhi while he was on the Spurs.

wow you’re telling me a multibillionaire sports franchise owner is an arrogant dick who thinks the rules don’t or shouldn’t apply to him?

It is so funny that Ballmer’s reputation is now suffering in an entirely different direction from when he was at MS. Back then he was the temper tantrum throwing bully who destroyed Nokia and presided over the boondoggle of Windows Phone. Oh, and he was in charge during the Windows ME and Windows 8 missteps, too.

Now it is just circumventing NBA rules ala Minnesota back in the day but he has so much money it seems like the NBA is scared to do more than ‘tut tut.’

This is why Lawrence Frank got a contract extension after the whole Ballmer thing got publicized. He’s been bought. #2 Ballmer shill but he’s neck and neck with #1 Cuban.

Scumbag cheaters. Thats what they are

Frank saying he knows Ballmer’s “integrity” is irony defined.

What investigation?

You mean the one funded by Ballmer where the investigators aren’t even asking witnesses about Ballmer?

I wonder if Steve Balmer ever broke any other rules pre basketball

punish them. Make it harder for them to compete. God NBA is losing their last credibility

This just in Billionaires will do anything to benefit themselves

Everyone here ex Microsoft says, yeah no shit lol

he also molested a couple dudes on live tv

Sounds like the Microsoft way.

It’s just the sort of bullshit people fall back on when they know there’s nothing but “trust me, bro” left.

Didn’t Lawrence Frank also go to Raptor games (while Kawhi was there, obviously)??

A billionaire thinking (and knowing) he’s above the law. 

Sounds pretty American to me. 

The Lakers built a statue of a rapist outside their arena.

Ballmer’s guilty, but it’s pretty silly to blame him for the mild comments Doc Rivers made as an analyst on ESPN:

Rivers compared Leonard to Michael Jordan while breaking down the Raptors’ matchup with the Golden State Warriors on ESPN’s NBA Finals preview show.

“He is the most like Jordan that we’ve seen,” Rivers said after Magic Johnson, the Lakers’ former president of basketball operations, talked about Leonard on Tuesday’s preview show. “Like, there’s a lot of great players. LeBron [James] is phenomenal. KD [Kevin Durant] is phenomenal. But he is the most like him.

“Big hands. Post game. Can finish. Great leaper. Great defender. In-between game. If you beat him to the spot, bumps you off. Then you add his 3-point shooting. I never get into who’s the best player. Magic is the best player, Michael Jordan is the best player, LeBron. But it’s that same group.”

Leonard will be a free agent this summer.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Rivers “crossed a bright line” when asked what the Clippers coach should do when he appears on a show that would require his analysis of other teams’ players.

“I would just say Doc has been at this for a long time,” Silver said in a video posted by the Boston Globe on Friday. “It’s not a fun part of my job ever fining anyone. And I understand the interest of the media in hearing a coach’s view about a current NBA player, but it’s something where there’s a bright line in this league and you’re not allowed to do it.

“And head coaches or team executives in those positions, you just say, ‘I’m not permitted by the league to respond to that question.’ And it’s a balance of interest. I understand that. But he unfortunately crossed a bright line.”

This is the pennance the clippers get for sending blake to detroit and scapegoating CP3

Donald Sterling may have been a penny pinching racist slumlord, but at least he was an honest pennny pinching racist slumlord.

Balmer is the kind of owner that is willing to pay his workers more than he has to in order to produce a better product for his customers (Clipper’s fans) by breaking the rules put in place by an oligopoly?

I’m not a Clipper fan but I find interesting how personally in a negative way some fans are so worked up about his actual actions.

wow man you really fucking showed him, I bet he’s reading this and is so mad

I really don’t think the Clippers are doing anything the other 29 other teams aren’t. They’re just more brazen with it in part because their owner has more money than God.

No draft lottery and no salary cap would easily resolve these artificially created and inflated non-issues

Who cares lol. Ballmer story is old news, the nba wil give him a slap on the wrist. Only an idiot would piss off their richest owner, while backdoor deals are happening all over the league.