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NBA punishes Clippers, Steve Ballmer: 5 key findings from the league's Kawhi Leonard investigation

A day short of a full year since Pablo Torre unearthed evidence that the Los Angeles Clippers under owner Steve Ballmer circumvented the NBA's salary cap in their dealings with star forward Kawhi Leonard, the league released the findings of its own investigation into the franchise and Leonard. The 35-page report from the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as a damning rebuke to the Clippers' denials they had sidestepped league rules. NBA commissioner Adam Silver evidently concurred, stripping the Clippers of five future first-round draft picks, fining them $30 million, suspending Ballmer for a year and levying no-pay suspensions of two of the franchise's highest-ranking executives.

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