Amick Voiding of a player contract and executive suspensions are on the table If they can prove that Kawhi was incentivized to not only stay but to sign team-friendly deals that gave them more flexibility This runs counter to what Adam has tried to build and cuts at the fabric of the league

Charania I had one executive tell me last night that the Clippers were essentially acting like a power agent brokering deals for Kawhi Leonard That's millions and millions of cash flow coming into Kawhi By mid-2021 Kawhi had pocketed tens of millions of dollars in no-show endorsement deals

Pablo Torre says the NBA approached Steve Ballmer told him they found wrongdoing and tried to get him to admit to it and accept the punishment Instead Ballmer chose to fight it so the NBA turned around and found a way to settle the matter with Kawhi and the NBPA

Brian Windhorst Kawhi Leonard is an unmitigated winner in this He collected tens of millions of dollars in endorsement deals and he was fined 700000 in restitution It's the greatest investment you could ever make

Zach Lowe Adam should we understand that the Clippers punishment is final or is it still open to some sort of renegotiation in the vein of the Timberwolves with Joe Smith Adam Silver The discipline is final

MacMahon Kawhi is a guy whos played 60 games just three times in the last nine years 115M for a player with those durability issues in his mid-30s that is a massive contract Thats not a discount deal A discount deal is Kevin Durant 2YR 90M extension This is 25M more than that

Charania Kawhi Leonard reportedly did not have any knowledge of the salary cap circumvention that was going on