NBA strips Clippers of 5 first-round draft picks, fines Steve Ballmer $30M in Kawhi Leonard salary cap circumvention probe

What happened

The NBA has stripped the Los Angeles Clippers of five first-round draft picks and fined owner Steve Ballmer $30 million at the conclusion of it’s probe into alleged salary cap circumvention with Kawhi Leonard, ESPN’s Shams Charania reports.

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1. 20:26
   First appeared on Yahoo SportsYYahoo Sports
2. 20:39
   CBS Sports started reportingCCBS Sports
3. 20:40
   Yahoo Sports followed upYYahoo Sports
4. 20:47
   Yahoo Sports followed upYYahoo Sports
5. 21:02
   CNBC Business started reportingCCNBC Business
6. 21:10
   Yahoo Sports followed upYYahoo Sports

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