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New York – It will be up to the NBA that the potential salary will have to do wrong during its examination of the cap circumference La clippersOwner Steve Balmer and Star Qui leonardLeague Commissioner Adam Silver said on Wednesday.
Silver said during his annual news conference at the conclusion of the league governors’ meetings at Midtown Manhattan, “I think with any process that requires a fundamental sense of fairness, the burden should be on the party, which is briefly, bringing those allegations.”
Silver said that the league needs to be seen only on the totality of evidence “instead of” only appearance “.
“Just the way those words have been read, I feel that as a fundamental fairness, I will be reluctant to act if there was the appearance of a kind of appearance. … I think a complete investigation is to find out if it was really unpredictable.
The League has already started investigating whether Balmer and Clippers have violated the rules of the league as Leonard accepted the support of $ 28 million for “no-show job” from Akanksha, a now-bank Green Banking Company in which Baller invested.
Blame First came out last week When an anonymous employee worked for aspiration Podcaster told Pablo Torre That was to be paid to Leonard to pay “the pay cap.”
Sources told ESPN that while the New York -based law firm Wattail, Lipton, Rosen and Katj will have a thorough investigation into the matter, there is no fixed time limit to find a conclusion.
There was a healthy amount of debate about any decision by silver – which again confirmed on Wednesday that he has “very comprehensive powers in these situations” – it would be decided whether the clippers would have to prove their innocence, or whether the burden of evidence was to do wrongdoing on the NBA.
Silver made it clear that it would be the latter.
“I have been in separate sequences of allegations and allegations around the league for a long time that I am a big believer in the fixed process and fairness, and we now need to run our course,” Silver said.
Silver also said that Balmer’s fellow owners have opinion.
“At least what I am being called is reservation of decision,” Silver said. “I think people recognize that you have a league office. You have a commissioner for this – someone who is independent of teams. On one hand, of course, I work collectively for 30 governors, but I have an independent obligation for the brand’s steward and integrity of this league.
“At least what those governors have told me directly to me. To the extent we have discussed [with the board of governors] – They are limited- we interacted with them that we attached Wattail to do this investigation. And maybe I cut any other conversation and said, ‘Let’s stop all the decisions, let’s investigate this and then we will return to you in the context of our conclusions.’ ,
Silver also hit some other league subjects:
All-star game format: Silver said that the goal is to be in the new all-star game format until the beginning of the regular season. They confirmed that it would happen Transfer to three-team format The February All-Star game at Los Angeles features 16 American players and eight international players.
Silver said that it is a priority to include players in the league’s Marki event.
“I think in the case of NBA, this is what I am trying to express, especially young players, that is a big thing,” Silver said. “There are great traditions. People have a lot of memories of these all-star games. It is part of the clothes of this league, enthusiasm that comes from it and engaged to our players.”
European League: Silver said that in Europe, there is potentially discussion about various things in creating an NBA-run league and many different parts of the League office are included in those talks.
Silver said that he and Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatam traveled to Europe to meet various stakeholders in this summer. Silver also said that discussion with the largest league Urolguue in Europe, earlier this year, is going on after his news conference with FIBA General Secretary Andreas Zagkalis – who openly quarreled with Urolig in the past.
Silver said that the NBA is doing domestic expansion before creating the European League, this perception is “not a case.”
“I see them as completely different institutions,” Silver said, there was no new news to report on the subject, although it came again in the board meeting.
“A part of the difficulty in potentially assessing is a sense of long -term value of the league, and a little bit it is a high -class problem, but with some recent jump in franchise assessment, such creates some confusion in such a market that you can also pay the price of the expansion franchise,” he said.
“I would only say that this is something we continue to see actively.”
Beasley check: Silver refused to say whether there are any limits Malik BezleNBA availability of availability while operating Investigation of gambling charges Against free agent guard.
“I will only say the investigation is on,” Silver said. “As I understand it, there is still a federal investigation that is running with Malik Bezle. Whatever we have presented in our case will address it.”
