NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league has no plans to move All-Star Weekend away from the Los Angeles Clippers’ new arena while it investigates whether the team violated salary-cap rules related to Kawhi Leonard.
“There’s no contemplation of moving the All-Star Game,” Silver said Monday at NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Conn. “Planning for the All-Star Game and the surrounding activities are operating completely independently of the ongoing investigation.”
The league launched an investigation last month after journalist Pablo Torre reported a $28 million “no-show” endorsement deal between Leonard and Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC, a California sustainability company that filed for bankruptcy this year. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer had previously invested $50 million in Aspirat