Los Angeles Clippers

[Vorkunov] Adam Silver: “I am deeply disappointed by the flagrant violations of our rules and by the Clippers’ institutional and leadership failures that led to this misconduct. The severity of the penalties reflects the seriousness of the violations.”

The Clippers will lose their 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, and 2033 first-round draft picks, per the NBA release

Quotes from Brian Windhorst, Tim MacMahon, Zach Lowe, Chris Mannix, and Jon Krawczynski describing how Clippers acted and lied personally to the media during the investigation. Krawczynski: It was a "behind the scenes, ferocious defense that was accusatory to anyone who dared question them."

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ESPN showed their ass throughout the entire Clippers' scandal. While it's been normalized on a broader scale, the "Worldwide leader in sports" shilling for Steve Ballmer throughout rather than critically investigating or at the very least reporting the truth is deeply disappointing, even for them

Mannix: “There were people [with the Clippers] saying this [investigation] was gonna end in lawsuits against Pablo… I had somebody tell me ‘You’re calling Steve Ballmer a liar? You better be careful: you could get sued too.’”

[Charania] Statement from the Clippers: We vehemently reject the NBA’s findings, which are the result of a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative rather than facts and evidence. (cont)

[Plaschke] “Steve Ballmer has been tattered. Lawrence Frank has been shredded. Their team future has been flattened. Boom, goes those damn Clippers. The NBA has ruled that the Clippers are cheaters. Ballmer, cheater. Frank, cheater. Even president of business operations Gillian Zucker, cheater.”