Sam Amick

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Sam Amick on the NBA wide impact of the Clippers punishment · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

You know, the year suspension for Ballmer, six months for Lawrence.

And I'm sure we'll get into it.

But like, you know, for the NBA casual fans like, you know, meet Gillian Zucker, who is a Clippers executive who you have never heard of.

And whose name, as our writer Dan Wojcicki pointed out recently, his name, her name pops up in that report more times, I think 52, than Lawrence Frank and Steve Ballmer combined.

And

NBA absolutely decided that this woman, this longtime Clippers executive president of business operations, was the most to blame when it comes to all of these accusations that they found to be true.

And then certainly Steve Ballmer

winds up not only being found to be involved, but having culpability because he is the owner.

So they come down very hard on the Clippers.

We're going to unpack it, you know, in the couple days since the ruling, talking to people around the NBA, there's certainly a sense that Kawhi got off incredibly easy.

And there's nuance there and there's stuff to dig into, but it's very tough on the Clippers and certainly Kawhi walks away mostly unscathed.

Well, I mean, it's, you know, I, I've been given this qualifier a lot lately guys as, as a non-attorney because, you know, apparently this summer you, I should've gotten my law degree.

year.

But I've,

i've watched enough law and order to to know that like not to not to go too crass of a a comp here but if you're trying to get the guy that pulled the trigger and you gotta say you know give a cut a plea deal with the guy who brought the gun then you do it and and there's an element of that and that's

oversimplified analogy but

The surprise when the ruling came down that I had not heard anybody anticipate was that the NBA made this announcement and this ruling immediately in concert with the Players Union, the National Basketball Players Association, from the jump of this being publicly revealed was endorsing, in essence, the findings of this deal.

That's important.

Because that, for all intents and purposes, cut off the Clippers arbitration route in terms of their possible responses.

Now, when you look at that, it very much seems like they had a choice to make.

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