Adam Silver Says Clippers’ Case Is Closed, Time to Move On
Commissioner Adam Silver said the league’s biggest penalty is final after the Clippers lost five first-round picks and paid a $30 million fine.
- On Sunday, Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer publicly accepted the NBA's historic penalties for salary-cap circumvention, ending the franchise's initial resistance to sanctions for facilitating off-the-books sponsorship deals for star Kawhi Leonard.
- The NBA docked the Clippers five first-round picks and fined the franchise $30 million, while imposing one-year suspensions on Ballmer and president of business operations Gillian Zucker, plus a six-month ban on president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank.
- Shortly after the penalties were finalized, the Clippers completed a trade on Monday sending Leonard to the Toronto Raptors for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, two unprotected first-round picks, one first-round pick swap and two second-rounders.
- While NBA Commissioner Adam Silver described the case as "closed," the Clippers and Ballmer face additional inquiries from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the endorsement deals.
- Silver noted the punishment matches the 2000 Minnesota Timberwolves sanction, stating that while the franchise faces a setback, "there's no question this is a setback for the team," though he does not believe permanent damage has occurred.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald
West Hawaii TodayClippers’ historic punishment a ‘setback,’ not ‘permanent damage,’ commissioner says
NEW YORK — As the NBA’s owners and high-ranking executives met here this week for the league’s latest Board of Governors meeting, the LA Clippers were missing. Steve Ballmer, the team’s owner, just began his one-year ban that was set down by the league this month. The Clippers’ president of business operations, Gillian Zucker, is suspended, too. That left the franchise without a presence for the past two days during the NBA’s regularly scheduled…
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Adam Silver says Clippers’ case is closed, time to move on
The NBA commissioner says he was encouraged that Clippers owner Steve Ballmer had accepted responsibility for his involvement in the salary cap circumvention case.
Clippers Draft Pick Sanctions Were Modeled By NBA On Wolves' Precedent
Adam Silver said the NBA examined past precedent before stripping the Los Angeles Clippers of five first-round draft picks for violating salary cap rules, calling the decision painful given its effect on the franchise's supporters. Silver made the comments Tuesday following a two-day board of governors meeting. Silver cited the Minnesota Timberwolves' prior forfeiture of five picks for cap circumvention as the guiding example for the Clippers' p…
The Clippers lost five first-round draft picks in the salary cap scandal, a "final" sanction according to Adam Silver.This article "Adam Silver won't come back on the big penalties imposed on the Clippers" appeared first on TrashTalk.
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