I think that results in less overall money available for players so the players association may not like that

Have a feeling the result won’t end up being anything crazy, I assume whenever the next CBA changes happen, they change stuff around for cap circumvention for sure

100 million fine
200 if they make the playoffs
500 if they win the championship

Money goes to the owners . They will all start snitching

Kawhi and Ballmer should be banned. No more playing for Kawhi. Ballmer forced to sell the team. No need to punish the future owner or the fans with dead cap space.

Yes but Adam Silver is a coward who is trying to come up with a punishment “Ballmer will accept” despite this being the third cap circumvention under his watch (One with Jordan, two with Kawhi)

They’re trying to expand to Europe not punish their wealthiest owner. The league only cares about optics, they knew about this sort of stuff well before Pablo Torres talked about it.

The punishments listed in the current CBA are more than enough. It just takes a strong leader to apply them. Silver clearly isn’t that.

I think they’ll be trying to pin it all on uncle Dennis. Kawhi might face some 20-30 games ban, which nobody will care about and then Clippers will be hit by a fine that Ballmer won’t notice. 

The only thing that will scare owners is a long term penalty on revenue. 10 years X% of revenue is added to all other teams as salary cap. A fine now will be laughed off. Team also shouldn’t lose picks but 1st round should be made to be the last pick. Kawhi should get a fine. And then have a kicker in any of his contracts as a safety net for teams. Should he play less then 65 games he only nets 70% of total contract value

it’s a lose lose

can’t punish balmer cause well he’s the don. he’s worth more than half the league owners combined

can’t punish kawhi cause the players association won’t like it

the only option really is lost of picks and maybe the loss of the use of some exceptions

Whatever they do it should harm the people responsible but not the fans. Clippers fans didn’t do anything wrong why should they get punished

They would force a sale and increase the value of other franchises before punishing a team in this fashion. Silver is answering to the owners here. The owners want their franchise values and league revenue to keep increasing. Hamstringing a team long term in the LA market does not make sense growth wise. No one wins there

The punishment will be more performative on that front. Balmer will get a small fine and then forced to not be in the office/attend games for the year. Clippers will lose some draft capital and Kawhi will probably miss significant games as well

NBPA will not being okay with any punishment. His lack of team pay allowed other to get more money. Why would they be against their players getting more money however they can?

I wish they would, but I assume they can’t because of the current CBA. It would be cool to add something like this to the next one.

It doesn’t make sense to kill a team for that long,

No. That would be stupid.

The union wouldn’t go for it.

The league wouldn’t go for it because it guarantees a team is going to suck for a decade.

There are two ways to greatly limit something from this happening again.

First is the team owner must sell the team. And can never buy another. We’re talking a billionaire getting billions of dollars in a sell, so even this is only a deterrent for billionaires that really want to own a sports team.

Second, the player involved in lifetime banned. INCLUDING post-retirement pensions/healthcare/401k matches.

Creating a worse entertainment experience hurts the league as a whole not just one team. Like if the clippers were that heavily sanctioned it would just make them unwatchable (inb4 the clippers are already unwatchable) which means that 82 games become a waste and one whole franchises fanbase will check out.

You should just fine the owners an extreme amount and/or suspend the offending players. There’s no need of just make 1/30th of the league irrelevant (inb4 the clippers are already irrelevant)

The problem with punishing a team as a whole in that way is you’re essentially killing ¹⁄₃₀ franchises in the league. It’s bad for league balance and bad for business in general.

As this would be directly ownership and a singular player doing the rule breaking, they need to punish Kawaii and Balmer (and Daktronics). An X year or lifetime ban of Balmer a la the last owner of the Clippers, and a suspension on banishment of Kawaii is really the only logical solution here.