NBA load to find the abuse of slider, Kavhi Leonard

New York – On the NBA will prove that it has evaluated during his investigation of potential deceptions to pay the salary by SlidersOwner Steve Ballmer and Star Kavhi LeonardThe League Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday.

“The burden is on the league if we will discipline the team, owner, player or any constituent members of the league,” Silver said during his annual press conference to the Conclusion of the League Governor in Midtov Manhattan. “I think like any process that requires the basic meaning of fairness, the burden should be on a foreigner that is essentially bringing those charges.”

Silver said the League should look “in the totality of evidence”, not just “mere look”.

“In the way those words read, I think I will really behave in public. Also, I would like to be completely false. Leonard is treated for the same way in the same way I would like to To treat me if people gave allegations against me. “

The League has already begun whether Ballmer and Clippers broke the league rules, because Leonard accepted $ 28 million for “Non-Show Jobs” from aspiration, the now-banked green banking company in which he invested a ballmer.

List first went out last week When an unnamed employee who allegedly worked for aspiration Said Podcast Pablo Torre If the payment of Leonarda “was supposed to bypass the pay hat.”

Sources have shown ESPN that although there will be a fundamental investigation by the New York Based on New York Vachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, there is no set deadline for conclusion.

There was a healthy amount of discussion about whether every decision of silver – who confirmed on Wednesday to have “very wide powers in these situations” or whether the sliders would prove their innocence instead of the NBA to find injustices.

Silver made it clear that will be the last.

“I’ve been enough in the league long enough in different permutations of allegations and charges that I am a big believer in the process and fairness, and now we have to inform my course,” silver said.

Silver also said that this opinion was the main colleagues.

“At least what’s told me is the reservation reservation,” Silver said. “I think that people are what you have in the league office. This is what you have a team-independent. On the one hand,, of course, I work for 30 governors, but I have an independent obligation to be the management and integrity of this league.

“At least what they directly told me. We had discussions (with the Board of Directors) – we have bounded the VACHTEALL to have this investigation.” Let’s all adopt judgment, let’s make this investigation, let’s make this investigation. “

Silver also hit several topics of other leagues:

Format game All-Star: Silver said the goal is to have a new game format with all the stars in place at the beginning of the regular season. Confirmed that it would be Switching to a format of a cost With 16 American players and eight international players in February All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

Silver said the priority was to hire players in the Marquee League event.

“I think in the case of the NBA, that’s what I’m trying to convey, especially younger players, is all the star a big deal,” Silver said. “There was great traditions there. People have big memories of these all stars. It’s part of the fabric of this league, the excitement that comes from her and engagement from our players.”

European League: Silver said discussions about different things that would potentially create in Europe and that there are many different parts of the league office in these conversations.

Silver said that the Deputy Commissioner Marko Tatum traveled to Europe to meet with various stakeholders this summer. Silver also said discussions with the Euroleague, the largest league in Europe, was still underway after his press conference earlier this year with Secretary of Fiba Andreas Zagklis – who has opened the Euroleague openly in the past.

Silver lasted that the impression that the NBA puts domestic expansion on the eve of the creation of the European League “is not the case.”

“I see them as completely different subjects,” Silver said, adding that there was no new news reporting on the topic, although she became at a meeting of the board.

“Part of the difficulty in potentially assess it is a long-term value of league and is a little problem with high classes, but as with some recent leaves in franchise screams, it kind of creates some confusion in the market so you can even appreciate the franchise of spread,” he said.

“I’ll just say it’s something we still look to watch.”

Beasley Investigation: Silver refused to say whether there are limitations in Malik BeasleyAvailability while the NBA leads its own Investigation for gambling allegations against a free guard.

“I’ll just say there to be in the course of the investigation,” Silver said. “How I understand it, there is still a federal investigation that is in progress and Malik Beasley. We will deal with everything we are presented in his case.”