Do you believe the Clippers/Aspiration punishment will have more monetary value than what Jonathan Kuminga will get this summer?

Like the title suggests, I want to preface this by saying I truly don’t know what will happen first.

I think between the Clippers, Ballmer and Kawhi, the punishment would float between $40 and $50 million (if you factor in an unpaid suspension and monetary fines outright).

A projected 25 game suspension for Kawhi would be around $15 million on a 50 million salary. Factor in the alleged $28 million no-show, and the fines distributed should be worth more than that, so that’s a minimum 43m.

I think Kuminga at this rate is looking at a 40m/2 year deal best case.

Will Kuminga get a deal bigger than the Kawhi scandal punishment? I don’t think so.

Lightskin-Duke | Warriors

20 | 4 hours ago

Their punishment is having to sign Kuminga for that deal

drjisftw | Pacers

2 | 4 hours ago

Same reason the Bucks won’t get any flack for the GTJ deal…they shot themselves in the foot lmao

The_MadStork | NYK

2 | 4 hours ago

Silver penalizing the Bucks

19683dw | Heat

1 | 3 hours ago

Nah GTJ fails up, the Bucks punishment is that the contract is extended with a player option for 10 seasons

StrategyTop7612 | Clippers

0 | 4 hours ago

Do you know what happens to a butter-based frosting after six decades in a poorly ventilated American basement?

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

11 | 4 hours ago

cndynn96 | Lakers

3 | 4 hours ago

Even if it is, $50M is basically chump change for world’s 13th richest man

SkipWilsey

4 | 4 hours ago

I think the longer this drags on the smaller the punishment will be.

ttocsy | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

I don’t even think the Clippers punishment will have more monetary value than I’ll have in the NBA this summer

LarBrd33

1 | 4 hours ago

It still remains to be seen if there’s any actual evidence of cap circumvention uncovered. They might just clear up the conspiracy theories and move on.

Then_Fun2933

1 | 3 hours ago

They should treat the cap circumvention amount as counting towards the cap for the duration of Kawhi career in LA and make the clippers pay all of the retroactive luxury tax payments. I think it would be well over $100m. And then they should lose at least the picks the Timberwolves lost.

RDomination

1 | 3 hours ago

“An amount of $43 million represents approximately 0.032% to 0.034% of Steve Ballmer’s total net worth.”

jphamlore | NBA

1 | 2 hours ago

What punishment? I still predict, as I have from the beginning, that the Clippers and Ballmer only get a wrist-slap.