{"id":33290,"date":"2025-09-11T05:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nba-silver-demands-proof-of-guilt-from-the-clippers-in-kawhi-case\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:04:36","slug":"nba-silver-demands-proof-of-guilt-from-the-clippers-in-kawhi-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/nba-silver-demands-proof-of-guilt-from-the-clippers-in-kawhi-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Silver demands proof of guilt from the Clippers in Kawhi case"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA to Investigate Clippers for Possible Salary Cap Circumvention<\/h2>\n\nNBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that the league will be in charge of demonstrating any irregularities in the investigation into a possible circumvention of the salary cap by the Los Angeles Clippers, their owner Steve Ballmer, and star Kawhi Leonard.\n\n\n
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\u201cThe burden falls on the league if we are going to sanction a team, an owner, a player, or any constituent member of the league,\u201d Silver stated during his annual press conference at the conclusion of the league’s board of governors meetings in Manhattan.<\/p>\n\nAdam Silver<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSilver emphasized the need to examine “the totality of the evidence” rather than relying solely on “mere appearances”.\n\nThe league has already launched an investigation to determine if Ballmer and the Clippers violated league rules, because Leonard accepted a $28 million sponsorship from Aspiration, an eco-friendly banking company now in bankruptcy in which Ballmer had invested.\n\nThe accusations arose last week when an unidentified employee who allegedly worked for Aspiration declared to podcaster Pablo Torre that the payment to Leonard “was intended to circumvent the salary cap”.\n\nSources indicated that the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, based in New York, will conduct a thorough investigation of the matter, with no deadline set for reaching a conclusion.\n\nSilver made it clear that the NBA will take responsibility for demonstrating any irregularities.\n\nSilver also mentioned other relevant topics for the league.\n\n

All-Star Game Format<\/h2>\n\nSilver indicated that the goal is to implement the new format of the All-Star Game at the beginning of the regular season. He confirmed that it will change to a three-team format for the February All-Star Game in Los Angeles, with 16 American players and eight international players.\n\nSilver underscored the importance of involving the players in the league’s most prominent event.\n\n\n

European League<\/h2>\n\n\nSilver reported that conversations continue on the various aspects related to the possible creation of a league managed by the NBA in Europe, with the participation of various areas of the league. Silver and Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum traveled to Europe to meet with different stakeholders this summer.\n\nSilver also highlighted that discussions with the EuroLeague, the most important league in Europe today, are ongoing.\n\nSilver denied the idea that the NBA is prioritizing domestic expansion over the creation of a European league.\n\n\n

Research on Beasley<\/h2>\n\n\nSilver declined to comment on potential restrictions on Malik Beasley’s availability while the NBA conducts its own investigation into the gambling allegations against the free agent guard.\n\nSilver simply said that the investigation is ongoing and that the league will address any information presented in Beasley’s case.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBA to Investigate Clippers for Possible Salary Cap Circumvention NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that the league will be in charge of demonstrating any irregularities in the investigation into a possible circumvention of the salary cap by the Los Angeles Clippers, their owner Steve Ballmer, and star Kawhi Leonard. \u201cThe burden falls on the league […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[118,763,103,3133],"class_list":{"0":"post-33290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-clippers","9":"tag-kawhi-leonard","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-salary-cap"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}