Trusteder Adam Silver: NBA will not judge the judgment in the Kavhi Leonard investigation

The NBA will not enter the probe in the probe whether the business relationship between Kavhi Leonard and the company in California was legitimate or just a way in which Sliders To circumvent the rules of salary payments, Commissioner Adam Silver said on Wednesday.

Silver spoke after the Governor’s committee who was attended by the Steve Ballmer’s owner – and said that the League would wait for the external firm report that he committed his investigation before taking the next steps.

“We are constantly learning in the league office and I reserve the verdict again because here I do not know the facts,” 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.”

Last week, NBA opened a $ 28 million contract for aspirations, LLC – which previously submitted to bankruptcy this year – took over league rules, after the report of journalist Pablo Torre.

The bars strongly denied that any rules were interrupted and said they greeted the league investigation.

“I think I’m like a basic fairness, I will reluctantly act if there was a mere appearance of inappropriate,” Silver said. “I think the goal is to find it really inappropriate. … I want anyone else in a situation that Mr. Ballmer is now, that he treats me in the same way I would like to be treated if people are stated against me.”

Ballmer invested $ 50 million in investment in aspiration, and the company and the team announced a partnership of $ 300 million in September 2021. years. That was about a month after Leonard signed a four-year addition of $ 176 million, an extension of $ 176 million.

After two years, the team finished his relationship with the tuition, saying the contract was on the default. The co-founder of the aspiration, Joseph Sanberg, agreed to be declared last month after faced federal charges of wire fraud. Prosecutors said that he deceived investors and lenders of $ 248 million, adding that “financial statements of aspiration were incorrect and reflect much higher income from the company in fact.”

“I am a big believer in the process and fairness and now you need to take your course to take your course,” Silver said, adding to “very broad power” when he was determined if injustice was found.

League – which previously took care that Leonard’s representatives have requested certain agents a few years ago – can issue solid penalties if the CAP rules, including a punishment of up to $ 7.5 million, including $ 7.5 million.

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