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The Clippers need to be quite happy about how they came out of the cap circumvention scandal, since the punishment could have been worse. The post Clippers Got Lucky Despite Devastating Kawhi Leonard Punishment appeared first on LA Sports Report.
When the Boston Celtics traded Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers, they got back Paul George, two first-round picks, and two second-round picks. But there are some stipulations involved.
The heavy punishments handed down by the NBA put the Los Angeles Clippers in an even more precarious predicament than the Phoenix Suns.
Now that the Kawhi Leonard investigation is finished and the NBA has handed down its punishment to him and the Los Angeles Clippers, he now becomes a threat to the Boston Celtics.
Apparently, the Kawhi Leonard trade is still on, and his second stay in Toronto may last considerably longer than his first. The Clippers and Raptors spoke Wednesday night following the NBA’s ruling in the salary-cap circumvention investigation and still intend to complete the Leonard trade, ESPN’s Shams Charania said Thursday on The Pat McAfee Show. […] The post Kawhi Leonard trade to Raptors still expected to happen, extension could follow appeared first on Hoops Wire .
The Los Angeles Clippers vehemently refute the NBA’s findings in the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention investigation, but converting that opposition into legal action will be challenging. That’s mainly because of the finality of league decisions and judicial deference to decisions of private associations. The NBA on Wednesday concluded that the Clippers and several team officials, […]
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The Kawhi Leonard punishment crushed the Clippers' future, and they are now in a spot no franchise wants to be in.
Almost one year to the date of the NBA’s formal announcement of its investigation into Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers for potential salary cap circumvention, which was sparked by revelations from the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, the league and New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz have released findings that […] The post Everything you need to know about NBA’s harsh Clippers penalties after Kawhi Leonard investigation appeared first on ClutchPoints .
As the dust settles following the NBA's obliteration of the Clippers over the Kawhi Leonard–Aspiration scandal, one of the more interesting vectors of fallout is on the media side. After all, the scandal kicked off following a series of reports from podcaster Pablo Torre, who is mentioned in the first line of the official investigation's report , and was later stage-managed for the public several times over by ESPN, Torre's former employer. Despite the company's status as the big dog of sports...
The Los Angeles Clippers were handed down some harsh punishments for their salary cap circumvention involving Kawhi Leonard. It may go down as one of the biggest punishments in sports, and for the Clippers, they have nothing good to show for all of the mess they got themselves into. Rich Eisen even went out on […] The post Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard acquisition dealt brutal claim after NBA’s punishment appeared first on ClutchPoints .
The punishment the NBA handed down to the Los Angeles Clippers for circumventing the league salary cap through no-show sponsorship deals signed by Kawhi Leonard is unprecedented in American professional sports. The Clippers were stripped of five future first-round NBA Draft picks, received one-year suspensions for owner Steve Ballmer and president of business operations Gillian…
The Denver Nuggets can get a good laugh out of the mess the Clippers got themselves into with Kawhi Leonard.
When the NBA stripped the Los Angeles Clippers of five first-round draft picks Wednesday, it immediately brought back an awful […]
Pablo Torre says Kawhi Leonard’s known endorsement arrangements reached at least $66 million, and the final number could be higher.
What is a Clipper? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Well, my unnautically aware friend, it’s a ship. More specifically, a 19th-century merchant ship. And seeing as the Los Angeles Clippers originated in San Diego after moving from Buffalo in 1978, it makes sense that a team in one of the greatest port cities […]
Steve Ballmer owns the Clippers. For the next year, he’ll have to do so from a considerable distance. Ballmer’s one-year suspension stemming from the NBA’s Kawhi Leonard investigation prohibits him from attending Clippers games and practices or entering the team’s offices, according to Joe Vardon of The Athletic. He’s also barred from influencing personnel or […] The post Steve Ballmer can’t attend Clippers games or even enter team offices during suspension appeared first on Hoops Wire .
Steve Ballmer deserved a much more creative monetary penalty from the NBA.
While the NBA announced significant penalties for both the Los Angeles Clippers and Kawhi Leonard on Wednesday, the team reportedly still plans on trading the seven-time All-Star to the Toronto Raptors.
If it seemed like the NBA threw everything it had at the Clippers, that’s because it pretty much did. John Hollinger of The Athletic notes that the penalties imposed in the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention case essentially reached the limits permitted by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The maximum fine for salary-cap circumvention is $7.5 million. […] The post NBA essentially gave Clippers maximum punishment allowed under CBA appeared first on Hoops Wire .
The NBA’s case against the Clippers becomes a little easier to understand when you follow the money. According to the 36-page report from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Clippers president of business operations Gillian Zucker connected Kawhi Leonard‘s then-business manager, Dennis Robertson, with three companies during a six-day period in June 2020. Those companies were […] The post Kawhi Leonard landed $18 million in endorsements after Clippers made introductions appeared first on Hoops Wi...
The NBA continues receiving information about the Clippers scandal, leading Tim MacMahon to warn additional penalties remain possible.
On Wednesday, the NBA brought down the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. After an investigation into allegations that the team had circumvented the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard extra money on top of his salary that was on the books, the league concluded that it had “found a pattern of misconduct and multiple…
For all the fulminations about the million-ton craphammer dropped on the Los Angeles Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer for trying to evade the NBA salary cap, almost nobody has yet identified the situation as the entertainment bonanza it is about to become. Yes, it's time for another edition of the game show to end all game shows, and maybe also to end everything else: Billionaires Eating Billionaires . You've seen it, because it airs reruns on basically every channel. A bunch of insanely ...
With the NBA laying the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers over the Kawhi Leonard scandal, former Cleveland Cavaliers PG Darius Garland is at a crossroads.