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
