Who’s Clippers executive at center of Kawhi Leonard scandal?
The NBA punished the LA Clippers for breaking salary cap rules when signing player Kawhi Leonard. The league suspended the team's owner for a year, fined the team millions of dollars, and penalized Leonard. Salary cap rules are designed to keep competition fair across teams.
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14 sourcesCrippling penalties for the Clippers in the Kawhi Leonard case just the latest episode for an NBA laughingstock
NBA hits LA Clippers with a record fine for circumventing salary cap
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28 sourcesNBA penalizes Los Angeles Clippers following Kawhi Leonard investigation
Completion of the NBA's investigation of the Clippers could facilitate Leonard trade to the Raptors
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11 sourcesBill Simmons in disbelief of Clippers, Steve Ballmer hitting ‘new rock bottom’
Inside the ‘ruse’ of the Clippers’, Kawhi Leonard business deals
The bombshell messages that doomed Clippers owner Steve Ballmer in Kawhi Leonard scandal
Clippers rat turns over 6-year notes of ‘illicit deals’ in Kawhi Leonard investigation
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4 articlesNBA fines Clippers $30m, suspends several executives in Kawhi Leonard probe
Steve Ballmer & Clippers Vow To Fight Historic NBA Punishment, Claim Investigation Was “Heavily Biased”
NBA Hits L.A. Clippers Hard In Kawhi Leonard Probe, Suspending Steve Ballmer And Pulling Draft Picks
Clippers docked five first-round draft picks and fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard scandal
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