No, it’s already been a full season, Adam was never going to do anything, he swept it under the rug hoping people would forget.. and most did

Balmer can afford to buy out the whole league. Don’t expect that kind of man to ever face consequences from any sort of system.

In a way he is much worse than the rest but also much better. He is a true fan. He does not do this for money but passion. I think that I’d still rather have a league with 30 of him than 30 cheap fucks like the Blazers have been cursed with

“We didn’t want to let any rulings distract people from the regular season.”

“We didn’t want the ruling to take away from the All Star Weekend celebrations.”

“We couldn’t let the ruling overshadow the awards our players and coaches earned over the season.”

“Our complete focus is on the NBA playoffs.”.

we are here ^

“The NBA Finals is the crown jewel of the basketball calendar we want our fans and all our partners to be able to celebrate it.”

“The NBA draft should be about the young men who’s dreams are about to come true, we didn’t want something to spoil the moment for them.”

“Free agency is a big part of the NBA calendar, we don’t really see the league as having an off-season and fans and our media partners want to enjoy this exciting time in the NBA.”

“With the NBA fiscal year ending we as a league have a lot of planning on our hands in order to bring an even better product to everyone for the next season!”

“Summer League is about getting young players a taste of what it’s like to be in the NBA, and for some of them a real chance to showcase themselves and find a path towards living their NBA dreams.”

“Media day and training camp is about new beginnings we’re not focused on talking about the past right now, but what excitement this upcoming season promises to all our fans and league partners.”

“We didn’t want to let any rulings distract people from the regular season.”

The nba is wwe now

You’re not gonna think about the Clippers-Kawhi scandal after what the refs are gonna do to bring this Spurs-Thunder series to a Game 7.

Forcing the Clippers to keep Kawhi and Kawhi to stay on the Clippers feels like enough punishment for both

Nope.

Nothing because Silver is a spineless coward and an impotent commissioner

They want you to forget, Ballmer pays people to try and control the narrative on the internet…watch how little traction this thread will get

Another million smoking guns

It’s so insane to me that my timberwolves got nuked for something far less egregious. And the Clippers everyone just turns a blind eye to.

They’re letting the criminal stuff play out first and will then probably come behind.

I mean, the bigger issue here isn’t the salary cap….its that investors in aspiration were defrauded by aspiration leadership. People go to prison for that.

Steve Ballmer was allegedly adjacent to that fraud on the investors. I mean, as Aspiration was spiraling and the CEO was desperately trying to raise more private equity…..and Ballmer was the only one investing anymore, do you think it’s possible the CEO told potential investors that Ballmer was investing and vouching for the company? lol….i think that sounds very plausible because desperate people do things like that.

Now Ballmer was probably smart enough to avoid getting roped into any calls with other investors where the other investors would have said, “Steve…we really respect you and your involvement is the only reason we’re considering an investment in Aspiration. However, we just don’t see it. This company looks like a scam. Can you walk us thru what you see that we don’t see?”

I mean, if Ballmer then said, “Aspiration is a great tree company and I believe in its business model.”, he could go to prison for that. If he said, “Lol…it’s totally a scam and I’m just using it as a pass thru to Kawhi.” then he won’t go to prison and the investors say, “Thanks for your honest Steve. That makes sense. We wondered if you’d lost your marbles.”

But it doesn’t make sense for the league to act before that shakes out.

At this point, imagine if anything happens with this, it’s after the Finals and before the draft.

Release the Leonard files!!!

Probably comes down to how much the other owners also paid players under the table. They probably want to thread the needle of making a punishment that is severe enough to discourage other teams from doing the same while protecting their own past transgressions from costing them too much.

you are silly if you think they are going to announce it during the peak of the playoffs instead of the dead of August or something lol

Ha

Mate, you want Balmer to sue you to oblivion? This thing is gonna take a while

I think the thing that was pointed out is most players didn’t care and if the players don’t care, then the owners won’t care but also it’s probably a lot more widespread than we think

Let’s look at the remaining schedule.

• June 19 - NBA Finals Game 7
• June 23 - NBA Draft Day 1
• June 30 - NBA Free Agency opening day

They wouldn’t want negative publicity to distract from the Finals or from the Draft. I’m betting the findings and penalties for the cap circumvention will be announced late on Friday June 26 with the league hoping that it eventually gets lost in the wave of breaking news that is reported at the beginning of free agency starting on the following Tuesday.

Silver is a toading bitch. He will do nothing substantive about it. Look at how ‘tough’ the 65 game rule was.

It will probably open a big can of worms so Silver with all his bravery decided to just hope everyone forgets about it.

I think Kawhi would’ve never played 65 games in a disappointing season for just the fourth time in his career if he didn’t have it on good authority that his contract is getting voided.

Is this a joke question? Silver is the worst commish in American sports, and is actively ruining the league. He was given Donald Sterling on a platter, and people were semi-fooled into thinking Stern’s lackey was going to be a good thing.

He wants to implement an AI review system, do you think he’s going to go after Steve Ballmer?

Nope. You think he is the only player to do this? Dirk took a pay cut at the end of career to be a consultant now. How much is Cuban paying him? You think Brunson really turned down over 100’million dollars. Fuck no. There is money coming in behind the scenes.

They will lose a 2085 4th pound pick

The before All-Star break is completely untrue.

The report will be released in the offseason.

The more money/power the accused has, the longer these things take.

The fact that the NBA has chosen to do nothing has reduced the league to being on par with the WWE.

It’s not a sport, it’s a soap opera for men.

Just pathetic that we went from Sterling (racist) to Ballmer (fraudster, cheater).

Fuck the NBA, anyone who takes it seriously is a simp.

I’m not saying justice will be served but it’s a third party investigation going on what exactly are you expecting the NBA to say before it concludes?

No, the problem is that this issue is widespread. Teams work to get stars sponsorships. The Clippers might have gone slightly farther than most, but many teams do roughly the same thing.

The nba is the biggest joke league in all of sports. I expect nothing lesser.

two free throws for shai

They’ll fine the Hawks $500,000 for trying to have a Magic City night.

(But seriously, if anything happens I think it would be a fine)

Fun regular season, very fun playoffs, ratings are doing well. Young, medium and old players all doing well. Best all star game in years; ironically Kawhi being a significant reason why. Torre got a Pulitzer weeks ago, the season has weeks left. Hardcore fans are now upset about inconsistent referring and how spread out playoff coverage is among networks.

Then free agency, World Cup. They will release their findings about here for maximum distraction and summer malaise. Bonus points if the baseball season is interesting. 

Now It is pre season. We should all move on, slap on the wrist. Cover up the next scandal. 

7 months since the news broke. Sarver was investigated by the same firm and that took like 10 months. 10 mil fine and 1 year suspension for him  so idk if the clips findings and punishment will really placate the sub.

Delay Delay Delay

Bruh everyone stopped talking about Epstein after a war was started and stopped like 36 times in the past 3 months skyrocketing gas prices. You think anyone is gonna give a shit or talk about the fact that the richest owner in the league was funneling money to his star player to circumvent the cap?

It’ll be lost in time much like how we don’t even mention the fact that the blazers head coach was indicted by the FBI at the start of the season and still made the playoffs or that Karl Malone had a kid with a 13 year old girl.

My brother in Christ, they’re not even going to do anything about Tony Brothers, let alone a whole ass owner.

Nope. Idk what Ballmer is giving Silver and the governors, and I actually don’t want to know because these billionaires are freaks, but it is keeping him out of trouble.

Of course not.

i’ve been expecting them to announce the outcome in the offseason even if there’s no punishment

Doesn’t look like it.

The league isn’t going to do anything unless the other owners make a fuss about it and it doesn’t look like they will. Maybe Silver does a slap on the wrist.

There was a report during the season that the other owners like Balmer, and with him being the richest owner in sports, there’s also relationships outside of basketball as well.

the clippers are ass so no

Oh god shut up nobody cares

it will be released a day b4 nba draft

Oh brother not another Kawhi/Clippers scandal post 🙄🙄

What do you expect them to do, plant more trees?

honestly the whole kawhi/clippers era is one of those what-if situations that’ll be analyzed for years. the roster construction made sense on paper — elite wing defense, shooting around kawhi, versatility at every position — but the availability issue broke everything. you can’t build continuity when your best player misses 40+ games every season. and now they’re in no man’s land with no picks and an aging roster

ngl this situation is wild from a roster construction perspective. you have to wonder how this affects their offseason planning — free agents aren’t going to want to sign into uncertainty, and that cap space becomes a liability if you can’t move it. the nba front office probably has to do something just to maintain credibility

Can’t even do shit about flopping

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Hilarious that the clippers cheated massively and were rewarded by the NBA with a pick and the scandal being pushed under rug. Big markets run everything in this league

“Well you guys massively cheated the rules.. how would you like a top 5 pick?”

I’m just glad the clippers didn’t t*nk! Just honestly a shit organization. Cheat massively and still suck, why not be rewarded more!

Fuck this league

“Hey Steve thanks again for spending so much of your own money to try to make the Clippers a real, non-laughing stock franchise. Please do not stop”

Development > strict observance of “Da Rules”

No one cares…

Nobody really cares bro

They could hand out the lightest of punishments just to send out any sort of message but apparently they won’t even do that, it’s beyond pathetic.

They were just waiting for us to forget

Makes me wonder if this is more widespread. I.e if Ballmer a Kawhi go down, everyone does. In the last 20-30 years superstar NBA players have been under paid because of the salary cap. Kobe, Steph, LeBron, Duncan, Shaq, Jordan, Durant, etc… are all worth way more to the league than their career earnings. I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard LeBron’s big 3 teams had some kind if similar deal

No because all the teams do it with star players

Are they gonna do anything to the one owner that could buy the league itself 10x over?

It’s still under investigation. The investigation will be ongoing indefinitely….until everyone forgets about it.

No the rich suffer no consequences in this country.

No, they won’t. Silver to fans: What are you going to do about it? Between this and the flopping and streaming deals, I could easily go cold turkey on this shit league and just stop watching.

This is a signal to the rest of the league that they can get aspirational too. LeBron is about to re-sign for the vet minimum with a 30 million dollar donation to the James Family Foundation

I dont even care. I just watch hoops.

theyre waiting for Kawhi to resign a new contract and as soon as that happens hell be suspended for 82 games

Silver has a long track record of kicking these investigations down the road until everyone forgets about it. The Clippers are already eliminated, Kawhi is still unsigned — what exactly is the league waiting for? Either the violations happened or they didn’t. At this point the silence is the statement.

Silver is going to address this issue the same way that the Knicks addressed the issue of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Right under the rug.

How do people still believe Pablo Torres fake story lmao

No. No one gives a shit

Nope, flop city was created to distract us from it

You guys are so fucking dumb. There’s an actual investigation going on, why do you want Silver to do anything before that?

Also noone ever said anything about all star game. It was a rumour and you believed it because you’re just dumb as fuck

I know it won’t be popular on this subreddit, but maybe the evidence just isn’t there to do anything about it

No. Now move on.

I’ve been out of the loop. What did the klaw do?