Would have really lost my interest in the league if they had let this slide since it just makes the richest teams have a massive advantage. Really glad they did this.

One of the great things about the NBA is that owners cannot simply buy a championship. It did not work for Prokhorov and the Nets and it has not worked for Balmer with the Clippers.

Obviously the inverse is true. Plenty of teams fell out of championship contention because the owner tried to cut payroll.

Agreed, definitely seems like the right call here and it's refreshing.

Yeah league's credibility was on the line with me for sure. There was too much shit out already and if they try to paper it over, man I would have been done.

From my understanding the CBA doesn’t give silver the power to suspend players for this so the contract voiding is really the only thing he could’ve done and I think they went a little light on Kawhi so he doesn’t appeal which leaves Ballmer little options to fight this.

It was light enough that Kawhi even admitted people around him (I.e. his uncle) did this which really seals the clippers fate here.