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\n\tINGLEWOOD, CA – JULY 19: A view of Halo Board inside the Intuit Dome, the Los Angeles Clippers new arena, during a press preview on July 19, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jevone Moore\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview<\/a> that the Clippers weren’t involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsement deal for his star player, Kawhi Leonard, that involved no actual endorsing. Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five future draft picks and pay a $30 million fine, among other penalties. <\/p>\n

A year later, an NBA-commissioned 35-page report <\/a>by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is basically calling him a liar, saying those claims were \u00ab\u00a0inaccurate (at best) with respect to Mr. Ballmer\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0clearly false\u00a0\u00bb when it came to Clippers presi \u2026<\/p>\n

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