(09-02-2026, 04:50 PM)Moviemavguy Wrote: Shams saying there is no official arbitration process to fight this and the league's ruling is final. Clippers will have to do it in court. That makes this a lot less likely that anything changes. Crazy.
I think he's flat wrong. It's explicitly specified in the CBA the last I looked.
EDITED - There is indeed a very detailed and somewhat lengthy section of the CBA that deals with circumvention (or accusations of it).
The bottom line, to get to penalties, is not a declaration by Silver. It indicated arbitration in front of an outside, independent arbitrator is where it starts, that there are appeals, and THEN the Commissioner could act based on the results. These penalties are definitely allowed, but the cart is way out in front of the horse right now, it seems to me. It says:
Section 3. Penalties.
(a) Upon a finding of a violation of Section 1 above by the System Arbitrator, but only following the conclusion of any appeal to the Appeals Panel, the Commissioner shall be authorized to: