A few days later, Adam Silver and the NBA dropped the hammer on Steve Ballmer and his Los Angeles Clippers. After a year-long investigation into potential salary cap circumvention first reported by Pablo Torre, the league and the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz found the Clippers guilty and took away five first-round picks, suspended Ballmer and Clippers' executive Gillian Zucker for one year, and suspended team president Lawrence Frank for six months, and issued a $3
As I am writing this, it is late Monday night on the West Coast. I just got off work, and while I was on my shift, reports surfaced that James Harden has unexpectedly requested a trade from the Los Angeles Clippers. Completely out of nowhere. I am genuinely shocked. The Clippers have been playing great basketball recently after a tough stretch earlier in the season. Harden has arguably been playing his best basketball in years. He is not the MVP version of himself from Housto