NBA Drops the Hammer on the Clippers | NFC East Preview — Coach and Company | Thursday September 3

The NBA has officially dropped the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers. Simply The Coach, Mikey P, and Peyton react to the league’s salary-cap circumvention ruling, which strips Los Angeles of five first-round picks, fines the franchise $30 million, suspends Steve Ballmer for one year, and requires Kawhi Leonard to pay $700,000. The crew debates whether the financial penalties are meaningful for billionaires and highly paid stars, why the lost picks could cripple the franchise, and whether the Kawhi Leonard–Paul George era will be remembered as one of basketball’s biggest roster-building disasters.

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