NBA Suspends Steve Ballmer
The NBA penalized the Clippers in a Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention case.
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The NBA fined the Los Angeles Clippers $30 million, stripped their 2029-2033 first-round draft picks and suspended owner Steve Ballmer for one year after finding salary-cap circumvention tied to Kawhi Leonard. The league said the Clippers improperly arranged off-court income opportunities for Leonard through corporate partners, including Aspiration Partners. Leonard was fined $700,000; basketball operations president Lawrence Frank was banned six months and business operations president Gillian Zucker one year. The Clippers rejected the findings and said they will challenge the penalties.
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