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Nba has to force ballmer 2 sell like previous owner or 5 billion fine (his choice)right?
Kawai gets lifetime ban or 200+ million fine (his choice hopefully)most likely.
Any thing less they should just recommend it to the other 29

The NBA, at a bare minimum, needs to tack on the extra 7 million dollars per year onto the Clippers' luxury tax calculations, including whether they'd be a repeater tax team.

This could maybe amount to a 9-figure luxury tax bill that the Clippers didn't have to pay over the last 3 years and maybe more if the Clippers are forced to add that figure to their cap this season.

Perhaps even rewind certain deals they made if they were in violation of certain tax aprons.

At the bare minimum they should pay the difference in a lux tax hit like Dr Aki said. That would be a light response to a heavy issue though, and even though they should be punished more, I don't see it happening.

They should. They won't, but they should.

If Silver has proved one thing, it's that he's spineless and that he's perfectly willing to ruin the integrity of the NBA.

Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Lifetime ban

Just guarantee them no top 10 draft pick selections for at least a decade.

Force the Clippers to sail

Glen Taylor was the owner of the Wolves in 2000 with the whole Joe Smith situation.

He didn’t have to sell.

Heck, the GM at the time didn’t even lose his job.

zero rings wrote:Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Outside of resetting franchise valuation, what makes his wealth a continued advantage for the league? I'm sure privately funding an arena isn't the type of precedent ownership groups with fewer resources want to set. If anything forcing another sale to reset valuation again would be the biggest benefit for everyone else. I doubt it will happen because that's also a precedent pro sport owners are very cautious about, but I don't really see his net worth factoring much.

CS707 wrote:

zero rings wrote:Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Outside of resetting franchise valuation, what makes his wealth a continued advantage for the league? I'm sure privately funding an arena isn't the type of precedent ownership groups with fewer resources want to set. If anything forcing another sale to reset valuation again would be the biggest benefit for everyone else. I doubt it will happen because that's also a precedent pro sport owners are very cautious about, but I don't really see his net worth factoring much.

Owners that don’t care about luxury tax payments are great for all the owners who don’t want to pay it.

CS707 wrote:

zero rings wrote:Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Outside of resetting franchise valuation, what makes his wealth a continued advantage for the league? I'm sure privately funding an arena isn't the type of precedent ownership groups with fewer resources want to set. If anything forcing another sale to reset valuation again would be the biggest benefit for everyone else. I doubt it will happen because that's also a precedent pro sport owners are very cautious about, but I don't really see his net worth factoring much.

I think he had a 3 year stretch where he paid close to $350 million in luxury tax payments. The league kept half of it and the other owners who weren't tax paying teams got to split up the other half.

Guys like Ballmer and Ishbia fund the league and raise all franchise valuations when they put out super crazy expensive rosters.

Technically, NBA didn't force Sterling to sell which they likely never would've been able to do anyway. Instead, his wife Shelly convinced him to see a doctor who diagnosed him with an illness, I believe demensia, which allowed her to enforce POA and used that to remove Sterling as trustee of the family trust so she could sell the team.

vxmike wrote:

CS707 wrote:

zero rings wrote:Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Outside of resetting franchise valuation, what makes his wealth a continued advantage for the league? I'm sure privately funding an arena isn't the type of precedent ownership groups with fewer resources want to set. If anything forcing another sale to reset valuation again would be the biggest benefit for everyone else. I doubt it will happen because that's also a precedent pro sport owners are very cautious about, but I don't really see his net worth factoring much.

Owners that don’t care about luxury tax payments are great for all the owners who don’t want to pay it.

Good point.

bstein14 wrote:

CS707 wrote:

zero rings wrote:Ballmer is the wealthiest owner by far, and he just built the most expensive arena in the NBA. Zero chance he gets ousted.

Outside of resetting franchise valuation, what makes his wealth a continued advantage for the league? I'm sure privately funding an arena isn't the type of precedent ownership groups with fewer resources want to set. If anything forcing another sale to reset valuation again would be the biggest benefit for everyone else. I doubt it will happen because that's also a precedent pro sport owners are very cautious about, but I don't really see his net worth factoring much.

I think he had a 3 year stretch where he paid close to $350 million in luxury tax payments. The league kept half of it and the other owners who weren't tax paying teams got to split up the other half.

Guys like Ballmer and Ishbia fund the league and raise all franchise valuations when they put out super crazy expensive rosters.

Ballmer has been a net positive for the NBA valuation as a whole. He shouldn’t / won’t be forced to sell- that’s dumb. IMO the response should be 2 fold:

Punitive luxury tax equivalent fines. I think they can make him pay in excess of $100M in this.

Void Kawhi’s contract, and have this as dead money on the Clippers cap. It’s arguably even more important to make an example out of Kawhi/Uncle Dennis, so that players and greedy family members don’t ask for this kind of shady deals in the future.

They won't force Ballmer to sell. But he's going to pay one hell of a fine.

Ballmer is everybody's favorite type of owner. He lines his fellow owners pockets with tax payments, and also never wins ****! Every league loves a Ballmer

The Laker Kid wrote:Force the Clippers to sail

lol i see it

Not a chance with an owner as wealthy as Ballmer

Force the Clippers to move to Seattle!