On September 8 the NBA fined the LA Clippers $30 million, banned Steve Ballmer from team events for a year and took five draft picks for circumventing the salary cap to sign Kawhi Leonard. The year-long investigation was conducted by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Reporting since has put the alleged off-the-books payments at $66 million, routed through no-show endorsement deals, on top of Leonard's on-the-books salary. The discussion centers on Pablo Torre's reporting and the rarity of a cheating punishment actually landing.