{"id":45887,"date":"2025-10-08T05:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/silver-confirms-all-star-game-2026-in-la-despite-clippers-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:06:52","slug":"silver-confirms-all-star-game-2026-in-la-despite-clippers-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/silver-confirms-all-star-game-2026-in-la-despite-clippers-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver confirms: All-Star Game 2026 in LA, despite Clippers investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"STAMFORD, Conn. \u2013 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated this Monday that &#8220;it is not being considered&#8221; the possibility of moving the All-Star Game from the LA Clippers&#8217; arena, while the league investigates whether the team evaded salary cap rules in relation to Kawhi Leonard.\n\nThe NBA launched an investigation last month following a report by journalist Pablo Torre, focusing on a $28 million sponsorship deal between Leonard and Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC, a California-based sustainability services company that declared bankruptcy this year.\n\nClippers owner Steve Ballmer made a $50 million investment in Aspiration, and the company and team announced a $300 million partnership in September 2021.\n\nThe NBA could impose severe sanctions if a team is found to have violated salary cap rules, including a fine of up to $7.5 million, contract annulment, and the loss of future draft picks.\n\nHowever, the league&#8217;s mid-season festivities at the Intuit Dome will not be affected.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Moving the All-Star Game is not being considered, and the planning of the All-Star Game and related activities operate completely independently of the ongoing investigation.<\/p><cite>Adam Silver<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSilver spoke at NBC Sports headquarters to discuss the network&#8217;s return to broadcasting the league this season. The All-Star Game, with a new format that will pit a U.S. team against an international team, will be televised by NBC on February 15.\n\nThe NBA announced in January 2024 that the 2026 All-Star Weekend would be held at the Intuit Dome, even before its inauguration. The arena, which opened its doors for the 2024-25 season, will also host basketball at the 2028 Olympic Games.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAMFORD, Conn. \u2013 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated this Monday that &#8220;it is not being considered&#8221; the possibility of moving the All-Star Game from the LA Clippers&#8217; arena, while the league investigates whether the team evaded salary cap rules in relation to Kawhi Leonard. The NBA launched an investigation last month following a report by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3564,118,763,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-45887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-all-star-game","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","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=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}