Dan Le Batard shares a text from an NBA owner saying this case differs from Sterling because Ballmer is highly respected and has excelled as Audit Committee Chair At the Board of Governors meeting the hope was Ballmer hadnt committed cap circumventionbut the new revelations are potentially huge

Adam Silver Admits NBA Has Remarkably Little Control Over Gambling Wants Federal Czar With Subpoena Power To Oversee The League I've said before the unders are the most problematic right thing in our league We need to make players understand how draconian the discipline will be

Windhorst Some of the owners who are trying to get LeBron were talking to each other and were like have you heard anything Nope Have you heard anything Nope LeBron is reaching out and talking to players on some of these teams and they report back to their GM or coach Hey LeBron called

Pablo Torre on the Kawhi trade How convenient is this for the NBA trying to shrink the PR problem of this scandal because the Raptors now employ the superstar they mightve been calling for punishment for And its interesting the NBA board chairman is Larry Tanenbaum the owner of the Raptors

Torre On the Clippers claiming they got scammed by Aspiration Weve been saying for over 11 months that you can be scammed by Sandberg and also have worked with him to try to deceive the NBA Two things can be true you got scammed by Joe and you also tried to use him to get one over on the NBA

Charania on LeBron James I dont know if Im holding my breath for an announcement this week LeBron has had multiple ownersGMs about 3-5 that have sent voice memos to him via Rich Paul

Adam Silver on the NBA Second Apron's Consequences for Teams It's certainly not an unintended consequence the purpose of the system is ultimately to create competition throughout the league And from that standpoint I think the system's working incredibly well