Adam Silver Comments on potential penalties for marbles, Kavhi Leonard: ‘My powers are very wide “

In his first public comments about Los Angeles Clippers‘ Alleged wage circumvolution Turning the stars forward Kavhi Leonard and the so-called “Green Bank” aspiration, NBA The Trusteder Adam Silver said on Wednesday that he and the League must “let the investigation lead that course.” He also said that, if the investigation detects that there was a deceitful capacity, he would have the opportunity to impose significant penalties.

“My powers are very broad,” Silver said. “I have a complete range of financial penalties, drat types, suspension and so on. I have very broad powers in these situations.”

Before last Wednesday, when “Pablo Torre reveals” reported “ That Leonard signed a $ 28 million contract for work without a show, the Commissioner “never heard of the company,” he said silver, which is nothing around in accordance with Kavhi or anything about hiring with clients from Los Angeles. ” Rick Buchanan, the NBA General Defender, and “quickly concluded the investigation, in fact, said, said silver. The League enrolled in New Yorks Legal Firm Vactel, Lipton, Rosen and Katza to monitor investigation.

After the podcast went live, Boston Sports Journal and Pablo Torre reveals It reports that, in addition to re-approval in the amount of $ 28 million, who did not seek anything from Leonard, signed another contract with aspiration for $ 20 million in stock. Clippers denied any wrongs, and last week Ballmer flew to Bristol, Connecticut for ESPN interview In which he said that “there was” no control “aspiration,” a false company “who” went and agreed “with Leonard after the sliders gave two sides, as they were allowed to do. Ballmer said that investing in aspiration in a 50 million dollar aspiration was less than 3% and did not know “why they may have done everything they did, let alone a specific contract with Kavhi.”

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Silver, Talking to reporters in New York after the meeting of the Board of GovernorsAt the same time, he emphasized that the League seriously takes allegations – “We brought great rifles to the investigation,” he said – and did not come to any conclusions.

“The public sometimes reaches the conclusions that later turned out to be completely false,” Silver said. “I would like someone else in the situation Mr. Ballmer or Kavhi Leonard, that I would be treated in the same way I would like to be treated if people list charges against me.” He then said that the NBA was at the end of the day, neither the court, “and has a” broad government to look at all the information and depicts it accordingly. “

There is a clause in the collective negotiating agreement that can conclude a cap when a team sponsor, a business partner or third party, a great-scale, a player who will provide a player for such sponsors or economic partners. ” It could be meant that, based on the information already reported, the clips must prove investigators that they is not bypass the pay cover. When silver is set, however, the burden of proof and whether the League requires “difficult” evidence against the slider, he said that the burden was in the league because the “party that is essentially, bringing those charges.”

Silver would be “reluctant to act,” he said, based on the “appearance of inappropriate” himself. ” He added that “the goal of the investigation to find out if she was really inappropriate.”

During the same same answer, however, silver meant that the difference between “hard evidence” and “bypass evidence” was blurred. “I was only more often with someone earlier, when people talk about smoking gun, it obviously detoured,” he said. “That means the gun still smokes, she must have recently fired.” This is all that means that if you are trying to analyze silver words for clues about how this story will end, good luck. At this stage, the NBA position seems simple: the league will not hesitate that disciplines will bypass the wage cap, but at least it did not determine that they did that sliders and Leonard.

“Reserve the verdict because I don’t know the facts here,” Silver said. “I don’t know what Kavhi was paid. I don’t know what he did or didn’t do. We’ll stay all for the investigation.”