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阿銀實際的回應 其實跟這篇立場差蠻多的

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As Adam Silver flexes go, this was about as bold as it gets.

就 Adam Silver 的強硬程度來說，這已經算是非常大膽的一次了。

The 63-year-old NBA commissioner who came up under the fire-breathing David
Stern, and who has chosen diplomacy over dictatorship since taking over in
2014, doesn’t typically stick his chest out when discussing such matters of
governance.



But during the Wednesday news conference in which he addressed the LA
Clippers saga for the first time, discussing the salary cap circumvention
accusations that were revealed a week before by the “Pablo Torre Finds Out
podcast,” he was asked to explain the scope of his power as it related to
the penalties that might ultimately be levied here.

但在週三的記者會上，當他首次公開談及洛杉磯快艇的事件時，卻被問到對於可能最終祭
出的懲罰，他手上究竟掌握多大權力。

Silver’s skeptics within the league, the ones who surely doubt whether he’
ll bring the hammer here if it’s warranted, might have assumed that he would
duck the question entirely. And they would have been wrong.

在聯盟內部，那些懷疑Silver是否會真的"重拳出擊"的人，或許原本以為他會迴避這個問
題，但他並沒有。

“My powers are very broad,” Silver said in response to the question from
Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo! Sports. “The full range of financial penalties:
Draft picks (seized), suspensions, etc. I have very broad powers in these
situations.”

"我的權力非常廣泛，"Silver 回應Yahoo Sports的Vincent Goodwill問題時說道。"包括

crystal clear that he’ll do what’s necessary if the evidence demands it,
this was the sort of signal that needed to be sent. While Silver made it
clear throughout that he’s “a big believer in due process and fairness,”
all while referencing the importance of the independent investigation that
will be conducted by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, it was still something
to see him highlight the reach of his role in such an unapologetic way. And
considering the mixed-emotions response that is so prevalent around the
league, with some owners already pushing for severe punishments and others
advocating for more restraint, this is the line he’ll have to walk in these
coming weeks and (likely) months.



As Silver knows better than anyone, this sticky situation poses a serious
risk to consumer faith in the Association. That was surely the message that
came his way from the long line of owners who, according to league sources,
called him to express their concerns in the days after all these sordid facts
were revealed.

Silver非常清楚，這場風波對球迷對聯盟的信任構成了嚴重風險。據消息人士透露，他在
事件曝光後接到多位球隊老闆來電，表達憂慮。

“What’s being said to me (by owners) is a reservation of judgment,” Silver
insisted when asked about the mood of the Board of Governors’ room on this
topic. “People recognize that that’s what you have a league office for. That
’s what you have a commissioner for, someone who is independent of the teams.

"(老闆們)對我說的態度是保留判斷，"Silver在談到董事會氛圍時說道。"大家認為這正是
聯盟辦公室存在的意義，這正是總裁的角色，要獨立於各隊之外。"

“On one hand, of course, I work collectively for the 30 governors, but I
have an independent obligation to be the steward of the brand and the
integrity of this league. …I cut off any further conversations (with owners)
and said, you know, let’s all withhold judgment. Let’s do this
investigation, and then we’ll come back to you in terms of our findings.”



The notion of a man of Ballmer’s wealth — $153 billion; most in
professional sports and top 10 on the planet — being able to procure and
retain elite talent through surreptitious ways is the worst nightmare for
fans of the league’s other 29 teams. More specifically, it undermines the
very ethos of the strict salary-cap system that is, in essence, a hard cap
intended to level the playing field and get the NBA that much closer to the
NFL’s competitive model that has worked so well.

對於其他29隊球迷而言，身價高達153B、星球上前十有錢的人、是體育界最富有的老闆
Steve Ballmer若能以暗箱操作方式挖角並留住頂尖球星，那就是最糟糕的夢魘。這不僅破
壞了嚴格薪資上限制度的公平性，也動搖了NBA想要仿效NFL競爭模式的核心精神。

So no, it’s not a crucial consideration that Ballmer is the anti-Donald
Sterling: Widely respected among his peers, willing to help build the league’
s brand all along the way, and known to be among the owners that Silver
leaned on the most from a leadership standpoint. Case in point, Ballmer has
long held a position as the league’s audit committee chair on the Board of
Governors and, per a source with knowledge of the situation, remains in that
role.



“They love Ballmer,” one high-ranking team executive said.

"他們很愛Ballmer，"一名球隊高管表示。

It also shouldn’t matter that All-Star weekend is at Ballmer’s
personally-financed building, the Clippers’ Intuit Dome, in February,
inconvenient and uncomfortable though that might be (among those who believe
Silver won’t come down hard on the Clippers, this political factor is
popular to highlight). The only thing that truly matters, and which simply
must be established by the time the investigation is done, is whether Ballmer
or any Clippers officials knowingly played a part in these deals that filled
Leonard’s pockets.


Ballmer或任何快艇高層是否明知並參與了那些讓Leonard荷包滿滿的交易。

Is Ballmer’s claim that he was “conned” by the Aspiration company that he
invested $50 million with, did a 23-year, $300 million arena sponsorship deal
with, and which turned out to be fraudulent, true? Was Leonard’s infamous
uncle and lead representative, Dennis Robertson, possibly acting on his own
when he orchestrated the two no-show endorsement agreements with Aspiration
that combined for a total ($48 million, which is curiously close to the
amount of Ballmer’s investment)? It could certainly help the Clippers’
cause if Robertson decided to back Ballmer’s defense with a public statement
of his own, but he is proving to be just as quiet publicly as his understated
nephew during this tumultuous time.



Even beyond the defiant public statements from the Clippers, including the
initial messaging that these allegations were “provably false,” the private
messaging has also been one of innocence and confidence. They already have
all their papers in order, so to speak, because of the Department of Justice
investigation that preceded this one and led to co-founder Joe Sanberg
agreeing to plead guilty of defrauding investors of $248 million. If the
focus of the investigation was solely on the Aspiration accusations — as
opposed to the broader business relationship with Leonard that has caused
backlash among stakeholders and fans alike — there has been a sense from the
Clippers’ side that they should be in the clear.



Alas, it’s not.

但事實不是這樣。

Like it or not, the Clippers know that the scope of this story goes much
wider than that. It dates back to the summer of 2019, when those lavish
requests from Robertson during the free agency process (and the subsequent
league investigation) laid the groundwork for suspicions that never truly
died. This subplot reared its head again this week, when the Toronto Star’s
Bruce Arthur revealed even more details about Robertson’s requests of the
Raptors that summer.


Robertson當年向暴龍提出要求的細節。

The most problematic detail, among many, was that Robertson not only told the
Raptors “they needed to match at least $10 million per year in extra
sponsorships income,” which would be a clear violation of the league’s
collective bargaining agreement if granted, but that Leonard “didn’t want
to do anything for the money.” The fact that Robertson reportedly asked for
team assistance to pursue no-show endorsement deals at that time, only to
find them later with Aspiration during Leonard’s Clippers tenure, sets the
kind of backdrop that only hurts their case at the moment. As an aside, a
Lakers team source said Robertson did not request no-show endorsement deals
in his free agency discussions with their team (he did, among other audacious
things, ask for a specific amount of off-court endorsement money that could
be promised in advance).



So, will Silver wind up exercising all that power he has in his employ? We won
’t know for quite some time now, more than likely. But he was the one who
deemed salary cap circumvention the “cardinal sin” when complaints like
these first arose six summers ago, and who has gone to such great lengths to
ensure that these sorts of improprieties are litigated out of his league.

He had no problem acknowledging the hammer that’s sitting right there. It’s
just a matter of whether he’ll need it.

“To suggest that there is a stigma around (cheating) would almost be an
understatement,” Silver said. “I mean, the amount of attention that this
has commanded, certainly no one out there is saying, ‘Oh, this is just
business as usual in the NBA; What’s the big deal?’ …In fact, their
suggestion is (that) this is highly aberrant behavior, and which is why, in
response to a podcast and some additional media reports, we brought in the
big guns on the investigation.”



他完全不避諱承認"大錘子"就擺在那裡，問題只是他是否需要動用。



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