In the long human story of power, accountability, and institutional justice, the NBA's salary cap scandal involving the Los Angeles Clippers raises an ancient question: when wrongdoing is collective, who bears the weight? The league handed down its most severe penalties in history to the Clippers organization — a $30 million fine, five lost draft picks, and a suspended owner — while Kawhi Leonard, the player at the scheme's center, departed for Toronto with little more than a financial footnote. The disparity has unsettled observers who believe that accountability, to mean anything, must reach