Bill Simmons This is basically the OJ civil trial vs the OJ trial Something smells with this You gave 50 million to these guys He's getting 28 million to do nothing You can say there's no smoking gun but something happened here and we're punishing you I think that's how this plays out

Brian Windhorst There's a lot of people that made a lot of assumptions about Adam Silver along the way This is as big of a punishment has ever been doled out in the NBA He has been presumed to be soft on crime to a certain certain extend That's not something you can say today

Bill Simmons does a quick breakdown of the Clippers organizations lowlights through the years What more could we have expected from the most incompetent sports franchise of all time

PTFO The NBA was looking forward to settling and negotiating down the Clippers' punishment The Clippers fundamentally refused to settle and undercut the investigation at every turn giving the version of their defense to ESPN as the NBA's findings

Bill Simmons They've screwed up almost a decade and a half of their franchise since 2019 They're not gonna have their pick in 2032 that's 13 years after the Kawhi signing They could basically throw a bar mitzvah in 2032 for how fucking stupid they are

Bill Simmons Should Steve Balmer go scorched earth marry the nanny and go way over the second apron

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