{"id":459485,"date":"2025-09-11T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=459485"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:17:10","slug":"adam-silver-strikes-firm-tone-on-clippers-probe-my-powers-are-very-broad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/adam-silver-strikes-firm-tone-on-clippers-probe-my-powers-are-very-broad\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver strikes firm tone on Clippers probe: \u201cMy powers are very broad\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1453\">NBA commissioner <strong data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1210\">Adam Silver<\/strong> addressed the <strong data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1254\">LA Clippers investigation<\/strong> for the first time, warning that he holds \u201cvery broad powers\u201d regarding potential penalties. \u201cFinancial fines, draft picks, suspensions\u2014I can act decisively if evidence demands it,\u201d Silver stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1680\">The probe focuses on the <strong data-start=\"1480\" data-end=\"1502\">Aspiration scandal<\/strong>, involving Clippers owner <strong data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1546\">Steve Ballmer<\/strong> and no-show endorsement deals for <strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1598\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong>. Law firm Wachtell Lipton has been hired to lead the independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1863\">Silver emphasized that \u201csalary-cap circumvention is the cardinal sin\u201d and stressed the league\u2019s integrity is at stake. Punishments, he noted, will depend strictly on the findings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1019\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6617814\/2025\/09\/10\/adam-silver-clippers-ballmer-investigation-bold\/\"><em data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1017\">Source: The Athletic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA commissioner Adam Silver addressed the LA Clippers investigation for the first time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":419112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-459485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/Adam-Silver.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459485"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=459485"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=459485"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=459485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}