NBA backroom update

Chris Paul, a Trump pardon, and Apollo at the Kremlin

CHRIS PAUL

In one of the weirder episodes of NBA history, the Clippers mysteriously sent Chris Paul home in the middle of the night. We don’t have great insight into why, but one report says he had stopped talking to Coach Ty Lue weeks earlier while another had an anecdote about a locker room confrontation with Kawhi Leonard.

Do players get cut for that kind of stuff?

The Clippers are under investigation. Big bad consequences could be coming for Steve Ballmer or Kawhi Leonard, depending on who says what to the league’s designated investigators. And Tyronn Lue is known to be a very close friend of Chauncey Billups and a devoted poker player who must be keeping an eye on the ongoing federal gambling investigation.

There will or will not be testimony that makes Steve Ballmer, Kawhi Leonard, Ty Lue or others look bad. Many in NBA circles have the blind habit of not roc…