hi Steve - did you circumvent the cap by paying kawhi for a no show job through the scam corporation known as aspiration?

No

Well that settles that, case closed

Lowe on his pod today said both teams expect this to be finalized (the investigation) in the next few weeks.

That doesn’t mean a ruling as Silver would have to go to an arbitrator to dole out punishment at some point.

[Charania] BREAKING: LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has bought the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz law firm as a means to fight injustice against the common man and nothing more.

He’s greasing the union

Many ppl assume that Kawhi’s contract being voided would hurt the raptors by rescinding the trade.

I think it’s the exact opposite.

If Kawhi’s contract is voided, Kawhi will be punished severely and his options will be extremely limited since almost no one has cap space. Kawhi would likely choose to sign with Toronto for an extremely team friendly contract and Toronto doesn’t have to spend their draft picks.

Toronto could end up benefiting significantly, which is poetic because they were likely one of the biggest victims of the clippers and Kawhi cap circumvention.

Edit to add: obviously Clippers would also be punished severely because they now lose the 2 FRPs they would’ve received from the Raptors, plus the players and whatever other future picks the league might take away.

In this scenario, all the parties are punished accordingly with the Raptors getting a benefit for one year.

If there’s no punishment at the end of this, pretty much means the salary cap doesn’t exist. Every single team with a non-cheap owner should be handing out no-show endorsement deals to get around the cap and build up super teams again

I can’t believe the Raptors would do this. With zero personal team bias, please fine the Toronto front office for having Kawhi on their team.

100 million dollars from Ballmer to the giants of Africa initiative by Masai would be the only monetary punishment id be on board with

Revoke a multi million dollar contract or a \(350,000 fine lmao I know spending \)350,000 will sting but compared to the alternative this is the silliest slap on the wrist I’ve ever seen.

Nothing ever happens

What i want to know is who is uncle Dennis meeting with?

For those interested here is the CBA entry on the possible penalties:

Article 13.3.b
^(*(Section 2 referenced below is where “No Unauthorized Agreements.” would apply))

(b) Upon a finding of a violation of Section 2 above by the System Arbitrator, but only following the conclusion of any appeal to the Appeals Panel, the Commissioner shall be authorized to:

(i) impose a fine of up to $7,500,000 on any Team found to have committed such violation (fifty percent (50%) of which shall be payable to the NBA, and fifty percent (50%) of which shall be payable to the NBPA-Selected Charitable Organization);

(ii) direct the forfeiture of draft picks;

(iii) when both the player (or any person or entity acting with authority on behalf of such player) and the Team (or Team Affiliate) are found to have committed such violation, (A) void any Player Contract, or any Renegotiation, Extension, or amendment of a Player Contract, between such player and such Team, (B) impose a fine of up to $350,000, on any player (fifty percent (50%) of which shall be payable to the NBA, and fifty percent (50%) of which shall be payable to the NBPA-Selected Charitable Organization), and/or © prohibit any future Player Contract, or any Renegotiation, Extension, or amendment of a Player Contract, between such player and such Team;

(iv) suspend for up to one (1) year any Team personnel found to have willfully engaged in such violation; and/or

(v) void any transaction or agreement found to have violated Section 2 above and direct the disgorgement by the player of anything of value received in connection with such transaction or agreement (except Compensation received for services already performed pursuant to a Player Contract), unless the player establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that he was unaware of the violation.

Steve, just need you to sign off on the recent billing summary. Thanks and best.

The investigation ending the same day LeBron signs with a team will be a mere coincidence, don’t worry

“Did you do anything wrong?”

“Heck no they hoodwinked me, I’m the victim here”

“All right case closed”

Don’t forget Katz.

If you’re loaded like Ballmer they’ll act like nothing happened and get the lightest punishment 

Steve: “… can you please drop the investigation? I’ll be your friend!”

Imagine being Rosen and Katz. Why is everyone leaving them out?

Who were the reluctant witnesses? Aspiration employees or Balmer?

Silver attributed the length of the investigation to legal complications, including “dealing with bankruptcy courts and reluctant witnesses,”
😡
Annnnnnd…dealing with liars!

“Hey Lipton, nothing to see here”

He’s finna buy the firm.

Lipton, the tea guy?

This is all bs, famous people get kickbacks or back door opportunities all the time

If the worst thing Steve Ballmer did as a billionaire is pay someone that ain’t all that bad from a non nba fan lol

I wonder if anyone realizes those kawaii as groot images were generated recently but the AI used to create them were told to generate as if it was a 2022 AI model so it looks like it was real to pretend they actually tried to create campaign. Sadly too many Balmer bucks go to online bots who suppress intelligent peoples comments

Lol

Just hurry up Already

“Steve can we give you this punishment?”

“No”

Void the contract, suspend Kawhi 20 games, take a 1st from the clippers and move on

Again idk how they could void his contract considering the contract he signed has already been fulfilled when this deal was made

“Hey Wachtell, I just wanted to say I did nothing wrong. On another unrelated note we just had a job open up for us. Its 30 million a year to plant some trees. Interested?”