The Los Angeles Clippers are not going down easy after the NBA dropped the hammer on them Tuesday.

The Clippers’ organization was stripped of five first-round NBA Draft picks and was fined $30 million as a result of the NBA’s verdict that they violated the league’s salary cap circumvention rules by “initiating off-court income opportunities” for superstar forward Kawhi Leonard.

Los Angeles released a very strong statement on these findings soon after they went public.

“We vehemently reject the NBA’s findings, which are the result of a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative rather than facts and evidence. What the league told us privately differs from what it announced today publicly, and they have not held themselves close to the standard Commissioner Silver set at the start of this investigation to ensure it’s fairness and accuracy,” the statement read.

“For the past year, we cooperated fully and in good faith and we will now fight just as hard to demonstrate our innocence. / We intend to vigorously challenge these findings and penalties through every avenue available to us and look forward to an ethical and impartial arbitration process.”

Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer, President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker, and President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank are all getting suspended for various periods of time because of the investigation.

Meanwhile, Leonard was fined only $700,000 and wasn’t suspended, which means he’ll be allowed to join the Toronto Raptors.

It seems that the Clippers are keen to fight this verdict.