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KqWIN said:
Ballmer and the other owners will squash this. Everyone is guilty, the owners have more resources than the NBA to fight a legal battle.
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This. The owners will tell the NBA what they are willing to do as recompense and that will be that. They will go about business as usual, which is paying players under the table and fixing the lottery and deciding where the stars need to go. Maxing out the money machine, in short.
 
default said:
I hope the league makes a real statement to teams not to do this again. Forced sale of team along with loss of multiple 1st round draft picks.
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The problem is the owners will decide what happens, and it will amount to a slap on the wrist and they will continue making under the table deals to keep the stars happy and in the cities where they are needed. But we don't need to worry about Ryan doing these kinds of shenangians. No stars want to be in Utah after all, and the league certainly doesn't want them here, so no need for backdoor deals here in the farm team.
 
infection said:
I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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KqWIN said:
Ballmer and the other owners will squash this. Everyone is guilty, the owners have more resources than the NBA to fight a legal battle.
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This will 100% get squashed. There will be a couple second round picks but they will find the work around to allow Clips to save face. No one wants to fight a legal battle with Ballmer. He's passionate and has infinite money. On top of it he may force other owners to open their books... this only got discovered because of the bankruptcy and that Uncle Dennis was dumb enough to file a claim. Billionaires are the best at class solidarity and will protect themselves and the product. Silver is not Stern.

They have a smoking gun with the agreement and its fairly obvious what happened here. They will need a smoking gun, video evidence and eyewitnesses if they want to drop the hammer like they did with the Wolves. That only got tagged because they were dumb enough to put it on paper. All the employees that stepped forward will get paid NDAs. NBA doesn't really want to find anything super incriminating.

Cuban already jumped in and was team Ballmer. Cuban had been tagged for this type of stuff as well as has a Dirk contract that was a little sus... also Cuban had the huge sexual harassment stuff that got cleaned up nice and tidy... he knows how this works. If 5-6 orgs feel burned (Jazz should be one of them) and want to push for this because they have squeaky clean operations I would be shocked. It will be fake passive aggressive outrage at it but none will want to go hard.

7.5M fine, loss of several second round picks, stern warning will be issued. When they find a team like NOP, Utah, Atlanta that did something like this the penalty will be stiff.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
This will 100% get squashed. There will be a couple second round picks but they will find the work around to allow Clips to save face. No one wants to fight a legal battle with Ballmer. He's passionate and has infinite money. On top of it he may force other owners to open their books... this only got discovered because of the bankruptcy and that Uncle Dennis was dumb enough to file a claim. Billionaires are the best at class solidarity and will protect themselves and the product. Silver is not Stern.

They have a smoking gun with the agreement and its fairly obvious what happened here. They will need a smoking gun, video evidence and eyewitnesses if they want to drop the hammer like they did with the Wolves. That only got tagged because they were dumb enough to put it on paper. All the employees that stepped forward will get paid NDAs. NBA doesn't really want to find anything super incriminating.

Cuban already jumped in and was team Ballmer. Cuban had been tagged for this type of stuff as well as has a Dirk contract that was a little sus... also Cuban had the huge sexual harassment stuff that got cleaned up nice and tidy... he knows how this works. If 5-6 orgs feel burned (Jazz should be one of them) and want to push for this because they have squeaky clean operations I would be shocked. It will be fake passive aggressive outrage at it but none will want to go hard.

7.5M fine, loss of several second round picks, stern warning will be issued. When they find a team like NOP, Utah, Atlanta that did something like this the penalty will be stiff.
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I'd be surprised if this amounts to any "wrong doing" at all. If you do any penalty for the Clips, it opens up everyone else to the possibility that they could be punished. These guys are billionaires, bending the rules is kind of their thing. It's the reason why Cuban was so quick to defend Balmer. Balmer by himself is a bigger entity than the NBA and will push around the NBA.

Perhaps they get a small penalty for "negligence" or something like that, but there's no way this amounts to a significant penalty.
 
Kawhi figured the Clippers paid him millions to sit on the bench and do nothing, why not let Aspiration do the same? :)
 
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