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Draymond Green: "I think wishing that the NBA took $50 million from a player is disgusting. I think it's purely disgusting. I like Gallo, I like Gallo a lot actually, but this is, this is disgusting to me. And the reason this is disgusting because number one, I don't, I don't want anyone getting fined. I think that, I think that shit is whack. You can go back and look where I said if this is true, I hope the punishment is they dismantle the CBA, not take $50 million out of Kawhi Leonard's pocket. That's so whack and I can't believe he said that."
Draymond Green: "Kawhi Leonard does not have the power to trade a player. He can request, hey, I want y'all to go out there and get this guy, but he don't have the ability to make that trade. That franchise have to agree, just like they had to agree that they were going to circumvent the cap. He can't make them do that. These are decisions that that franchise made. So in turn, you must have left a big enough impact on that franchise. But to blame another player and say he should have to pay off $50 million back, that shit is whack."
Draymond Green: Galinari is one of those guys who was extremely talented, who would give you fits, but was a little lazy. Uh, one of those guys who was not known as someone who give their all to the game of basketball. Uh, one of those guys who come in with a random back injury. One of those guys who isn't always in tip-top basketball shape because the word around him is he don't really care. To put your career mishaps on Kawhi Leonard coming to the Clippers and then you getting traded..
Brian Windhorst and The Hoop Collective are taking their podcast on a global tour in October, as the ESPN/Omaha Productions show will travel to Manila, Macau, and Melbourne. The ESPN NBA insider spoke to Front Office Sports about the impetus for the tour, if he was surprised that Adam Silver dropped the hammer on the Clippers, and several elements of LeBron James signing with the 76ers.
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During an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Curry addressed the league's investigation and subsequent penalties against the Clippers, saying NBA commissioner Adam Silver's decision made sense after the lengthy process. “I wasn’t surprised,” Curry said. “I think the reason the investigation took as long as it did and the idea that Steve Ballmer, who I’ve gotten to know and I know he’s a great guy, is standing by the punishment – there’s a reason that it’s happened all the way it has. And at the end of the day, Adam Silver had a job to do, and I think the punishment makes sense, and we all move forward.”
Paul George gets a lot of heat, and people were criticizing him even during the bubble. When you look at Paul George’s game, what do you think is one of the most underrated portions of his game? Montrezl Harrell: I don’t make comments about that boy. Me and that boy don’t see eye-to-eye, and we ain’t on no terms, so I don’t make comments about him. Quite frankly, I don’t care. I stated that in the tribute interview I did as well, regarding how me and him got into it in that bubble situation. I feel like that had a strong trajectory on why the Clippers didn’t sign me back the following year, so I don’t make comments on him.
Pablo Torre Finds Out: NEW: The DOJ could build a criminal conspiracy case against Steve Ballmer and the Clippers for securities fraud in the Kawhi Leonard scandal, former federal prosecutors tell @PabloTorre. "Even in 2026, a creative theory could map out a road to jail time." And that's before Trump gets involved.
Danilo Gallinari: "That was the first time where I got traded not because of an owner or GM or coach situation or request. It was clearly a player request that didn't like what he saw. He wanted his friend or whatever relationship was there with Paul George, and so that was what I didn't like. I didn't say anything bad."
“All those people on that byline, I know them personally,” Torre said. “They had the ability to see so much that should have made them pause before publishing that. And I will say that they did not reach out to me for comment. I provided a comment afterwards in a discussion with them when the story came out. They did not include that comment. “Generously, it is something that will haunt them because they did not intend for this. Less generously, it speaks to the question: How did you guys not smell this earlier when I have been doing this for a year? Why did you not trust the journalist, but instead trusted the source that leaked it to you?”
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High-ranking people around the league told me Tuesday afternoon that they agreed with the punishment, even though they like Ballmer personally and respect the work he’s put into the league since buying the Clippers in 2014 — both by serving on league committees and by spending lavishly on his team, as well as Intuit Dome. But protecting the collective bargaining agreement and the cap, they said, is that important to the business model of the league.
Chris Mannix: "I had a source that is plugged into the Clippers. This person told me that in the front office right now, they were leaderless. Which is not all that surprising because the three top people in basketball ops were let go. The assumption is that Trent Redden will take over the day-to-day operations of the team, but right now, it's chaos. It's chaos over there as they're trying to figure out who's calling the shots, who's the ultimate decision-maker, and who can sign off on this Kawhi Leonard deal."
Brian Windhorst: "I said on this podcast and or wrote online, like, 'Boy, the Clippers are sending a heck of a lot of people to these Raptors games.' And I got a blitzkrieg text from someone at the Clippers who will be unnamed, about how out of line I was, about like, you know, how out of line you were. Right? Like, 'Who are you to say, and who are you or the Raptors to say when we send our scouts?'"
Brett Siegel: The Clippers' punishment from the NBA is final, Adam Silver says. Silver met with Kawhi Leonard, as well as the NBPA, to determine what exactly would take place as far as punishment for him. "I think we reached a fair outcome for everyone."