yeah, the precedent is losing years of picks and the Clippers have traded away their picks in 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029. Now, some of those traded picks are swaps, but the League would be punishing other teams is they voided the swaps. So that won't happen
The Clippers might lose a lot of 1st round picks from 2030 and beyond though
Ballmer? They won't kick him out as an owner, especially not after he just spent over 2B on the new Clipper's state of the art arena. He might have to watch games from a suite and have no direct contact for a while
the NBA may be under pressure to get a completed investigation. For sure one of the penalties could be voiding Kawhi's contract, cancelling Bird Rights, and not allowing him to re-sign with LAC. But he only has 2 years left on his current contract. If the NBA can't complete an investigation before the season starts, then there would only be one year of Kawhi's deal to cancel, although it would be a 50M cancellation
seems like it should be a pretty straight-forward investigation. But I guess it will take months