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mademan wrote:I thought the scandal was that Kawhi did no work here. If he shot some commercials or some bull like that, this is not a thing.
Flash4thewin wrote:Celts17Pride wrote:Domejandro wrote:Should be a massive punishment, but I'm sure it'll be a slap on the wrist that will make my grapes even more sour about the Joe Smith punishment.
If it's not a massive punishment the league will lose all credibility. The NBA will have even bigger problems. Silver has to do something huge whether he likes it or not.
They have to at this point. There is a freaking paper trail. 28 million is hard to look away at. Sure other players like Brunson or Giannis have questionable hirings/signings like a dad to the front office or a brother to the team, none of them are getting paid 28 million dollars. The other thing to remember is that Silver works for the teams not the other way around. All it takes is one team that wants to force this, one team that has a grudge to hold against the Clippers and Kawhi, yeah im look at you Raptors. The amount of #1 draft picks needed to quite the Raptors in this would make an even bigger controversy so they have no choice but to throw down the hammer here.
mademan wrote:
I thought the scandal was that Kawhi did no work here. If he shot some commercials or some bull like that, this is not a thing.
mademan wrote:Anything short of a multi year suspension for Kawhi/termination of contract + fines/penalties/lost picks for Clippers would be horribly harmful to the league. A lot of people here think its gonna be a slap on the wrist, but i dunno. This is a league worth 100+billion dollars...you cant let 1 league and 1 player destroy its integrity and put it all at risk.
When did this start? There are other aggrieved parties here (namely Raptors and Lakers who were in play for him in 2020)
mademan wrote:Anything short of a multi year suspension for Kawhi/termination of contract + fines/penalties/lost picks for Clippers would be horribly harmful to the league. A lot of people here think its gonna be a slap on the wrist, but i dunno. This is a league worth 100+billion dollars...you cant let 1 league and 1 player destroy its integrity and put it all at risk.
When did this start? There are other aggrieved parties here (namely Raptors and Lakers who were in play for him in 2020)
levon wrote:mademan wrote:Anything short of a multi year suspension for Kawhi/termination of contract + fines/penalties/lost picks for Clippers would be horribly harmful to the league. A lot of people here think its gonna be a slap on the wrist, but i dunno. This is a league worth 100+billion dollars...you cant let 1 league and 1 player destroy its integrity and put it all at risk.
When did this start? There are other aggrieved parties here (namely Raptors and Lakers who were in play for him in 2020)
Can't speak for the Raptors but on the Lakers front, I wouldn't be surprised if this is related to Magic's ouster. Magic basically admitted he quit because he wasn't allowed to tamper and it was cramping his style. There's no doubt that the LeBron, AD, Kawhi trifecta was what they were going for all along. If I recall correctly, Magic himself said he talked to Uncle Dennis and Kawhi even after stepping down from being PoBO, lol. Since then the Lakers have basically been airtight, maybe because they got spooked by Kawhi's actions and tampering fines, or because they got privately admonished by the league for even entertaining this mode of teambuilding.
MoneyTalks41890 wrote:mademan wrote:
I thought the scandal was that Kawhi did no work here. If he shot some commercials or some bull like that, this is not a thing.
Trees may have been planted.
GrindCityHustle wrote:Kawhi was given an offer he couldn't refuse to leave Toronto.
The whole "Uncle Dennis and being in LA" wouldn't have mattered if Toronto could have matched this type of money.
In the end it didn't really work out for the Clippers except to fully rid themselves of the Sterling legacy. They are also considered a place franchise players will go to now even though they didn't win a title doing this.
mademan wrote:levon wrote:mademan wrote:Anything short of a multi year suspension for Kawhi/termination of contract + fines/penalties/lost picks for Clippers would be horribly harmful to the league. A lot of people here think its gonna be a slap on the wrist, but i dunno. This is a league worth 100+billion dollars...you cant let 1 league and 1 player destroy its integrity and put it all at risk.
When did this start? There are other aggrieved parties here (namely Raptors and Lakers who were in play for him in 2020)
Can't speak for the Raptors but on the Lakers front, I wouldn't be surprised if this is related to Magic's ouster. Magic basically admitted he quit because he wasn't allowed to tamper and it was cramping his style. There's no doubt that the LeBron, AD, Kawhi trifecta was what they were going for all along. If I recall correctly, Magic himself said he talked to Uncle Dennis and Kawhi even after stepping down from being PoBO, lol. Since then the Lakers have basically been airtight, maybe because they got spooked by Kawhi's actions and tampering fines, or because they got privately admonished by the league for even entertaining this mode of teambuilding.
Ujiri did claim that Uncle Dennis made outrageous demands in negotiations too without ever digging in too deep there.
Rust_Cohle wrote:GrindCityHustle wrote:Kawhi was given an offer he couldn't refuse to leave Toronto.
The whole "Uncle Dennis and being in LA" wouldn't have mattered if Toronto could have matched this type of money.
In the end it didn't really work out for the Clippers except to fully rid themselves of the Sterling legacy. They are also considered a place franchise players will go to now even though they didn't win a title doing this.
Kawhi always wanted to come to LA, that his onus from day 1 since wanting to leave the Spurs. The additional money was a huge bonus. If anything the raptors would’ve needed to offer twice as much as the Clipps to attempt to keep him
G R E Y wrote:Times like these I miss David Stern.
Ball(mer)'s in Silver's court now. So to speak.
aj174 wrote:I'm already losing interest in the NBA with all the gambling ads, and the very clear shameless rigging of Luka to LA to sell the team and flagg to Dallas as payment
But if the punishment for this is anything less than severe, it's gonna be almost equal to WWE for me
