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Weekly Friday Self-Promotion and Fan Art Thread

Wemby “Its just like the River Walk in San Antonio”

Stephen A Smith - “The Clippers are in a world of trouble… It should be entertained that Kawhi Leonard should be banned for a year.”

[Gutierrez] BREAKING: Brandon Clarke’s death ruled accidental overdose of cocaine, heroin. The medical examiner also listed as a significant contributing condition the “combined effects of multiple prescription medications.”

The punishment for Kawhi should be making him play all 82 games…

[Sam Amico] Anonymous GM: “He’s still LeBron, or still has moments where he’ll remind you he once was LeBron. But this is gonna be the chapter where we watch him and say that he stuck around too long. Someday we’ll ask, ‘Remember LeBron played for the Sixers?’ And laugh.”

[Pablo Torre Finds Out] Turns out, Kawhi Leonard, Steve Ballmer and the Clippers DID plant a tree for Aspiration. And they raised it to the roof — where their Daktronics scoreboard would live. Sources say Daktronics followed Aspiration as another hidden, multimillion-dollar “sponsorship” for Kawhi.

[Highlight] Kidd lob to the 6’1” Beaubois, one of the most unguardable plays few people remember

[Dan Patrick Show] “I think there’s a very real chance that Steve Ballmer emerges relatively unscathed.” - @PabloTorre on the possible fallout from the Kawhi Leonard situation.

[Grange] The punishments for cap circumvention, it has been pointed out to me, are jointly negotiated by the NBA and the NBPA and written into the league’s collective bargaining agreement. Nowhere in that language does it say a player can be suspended for participating in cap circumvention.

LeBron plays bullyball for the transition dunk

[Pablo Torre Finds Out] Clippers had significant influence over Daktronics when the scoreboard-maker faced financial peril—and when Aspiration owed Kawhi. After studying earnings calls, Sam Koppelman says the relationship, for Daktronics, “might have been the greatest endorsement deal of all time.”

[McMenamin] Kevin Love’s agent, Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management, has been in touch with the Philadelphia 76ers’ front office since James picked Philadelphia, sources told ESPN. Philly would need to make a move to accommodate the 38-year-old Love.

[Grange] “Per league sources, there’s a belief the investigation has already moved beyond its fact-finding stage and the parties involved — specifically the Clippers and the NBPA— are working quietly to get the entire issue resolved”

In a 2007 game against the Wizards, LeBron had exactly 27/7/7 … Until he grabbed a board with 1 sec left up 7 off of a missed layup from Antonio Daniels.

[Highlight] The 27 straight missed 3 pointers by the Rockets in Game 7

BREAKING: Kawhi Leonard had a hidden, multimillion-dollar “sponsorship” with Clippers’ scoreboard-maker, sources tell @PabloTorre.

[Pablo Torre Finds Out] Kawhi Leonard had a hidden, multimillion-dollar “sponsorship” with Clippers’ scoreboard-maker, sources tell Pablo Torre. “It was 1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap,” insider says. In our investigation, Daktronics’ Ballmer-linked crisis firm raises NBA probe

The NBA is looking at Seattle and Las Vegas for expansion. If you could add two teams anywhere which cities are you picking?

[Road Trippin’ Show] Channing Frye says Chris Paul had a better career than Allen Iverson: “I think Allen Iverson is the one of the top three most influential players ever to play basketball. But I think if we’re looking at careers, Chris Paul’s career is better than Allen Iverson’s.”

Pablo Torre and Amin Elhassan look back at “most passionate toilet speech ever” delivered by Steve Ballmer. Pablo: “How are the toilets [at Intuit Dome]?” Amin Elhassan: “Amazing. Great suction, clean, spacious. [Ballmer] took his time, clearly, in the designing of these receptacles of human waste.”

Is the WNBA GOAT more clear-cut than the NBA GOAT?

Michael Porter Jr. : “If you spending \(3,000 on a meal, you shouldn’t have to tip \)600, twenty percent. Uber Eats is another thing. If the Uber Eats order is \(250, why are you still tipping 20% when they’re doing the same amount of work as if you ordered a \)20 meal?”

[PTFO] Source to Pablo: “People at Daktronics and the Clippers had told me about this multi-million dollar deal with Kawhi and Daktronics. it wasn’t coming out of their end. The Clippers were technically kind of funding it. It was funneling money from the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kawhi.”

[Highlight] Jimmy Butler (35 PTS, 12 REB, 11 AST) helps force a game 6 in duel against LeBron James (40 PTS, 13 REB, 7 AST) and the Lakers

Worst defensive players that became extremely good on defense later in their careers?

LA Clippers: 18 USC § 1349 Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud? (I don’t need anyone charged with crimes behind sports stuff but…)

Per Pablo Torre, Kawhi Leonard also had a deal with Daktronics, the company responsible for the “Halo” at the Intuit Dome

It’s absolutely insane that the Clippers were allowed to keep their draft picks in this draft.

When Daktronic was contacted about its endorsement deal with Kawhi Leonard, Daktronic passed it along to a crisis management company. That crisis management company also has the Intuit Bowl’s holding company as client. As well as the holding company of the soccer arena that Kawhi was invested in.

[TMZ] James Harden’s Texas gun case has been dismissed … after the NBA star was arrested in Houston and charged with the unlawful carrying of a weapon

Warriors offered Gilbert Arenas 4 cars to circumvent the cap and a 7-year/\(79M contract in 2 years, if he signed a 1-year/\)4.9M deal with them first

Balmer claimed that Aspiration defrauded him. What about Daktronics, did Balmer get scammed by them too?

All 9 missed foul calls by the refs against the Rockets. 2017-2018 western conference finals game 7

In the 90s, Drazen Petrovic cooked perennial DPOY candidate Hakeem Olajuwan. 3 decades later, Chris Paul cooks perennial DPOY candidate Rudy Gobert with the same move!

[TMZ] Luka Dončić’s ex-fiancée has reportedly filed a new claim in Slovenia seeking \(50 million in a custody and support dispute—\)40M for herself and $10M for their two daughters—while also seeking to reduce Luka’s custody time from two days per week to one.

[LA Times] Steve Ballmer in 2018 : “We’re going to be good our way. We’re not going to show up and suck for a year, two years. I think we got higher expectations on us than the long, hard 5, 6 years of absolute crap like the 76ers put in. How could we look you guys in the eye if we did that to you?”

[Franko] Kessler’s 4.6 offensive rebounds per game led the league in back to back years. Since 1999 there have been only 3 players age 24 or younger averaging 10 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks and 4 offensive rebounds per game. Elton Brand in 2003, Dwight Howard in 2009 and Walker Kessler in 2025.

Ex-NBA star Monta Ellis named Alcorn State basketball GM

Ex-NBA star Monta Ellis named Alcorn State basketball GM

[Highlight] Kawhi rips Ben McLemore on back to back possessions

The time has come for a new Kawhi nickname

Kawhi Leonard reportedly had deal with Daktronics, Clippers’ video board manufacturer

Jaylen Brown on his relationship with Jayson Tatum: “We won a championship together…There are ups and downs in any relationship. On my end, nothing but respect, besides when he plays the Sixers.”

Whether they talked since the trade: “Not really.”

From tracing down some old newspaper stories/box scores, basketball reference determined that Wilt Chamberlain had a 23 block triple double on Christmas Day, 1968. That’s six more blocks than the official NBA record (Elmore Smith). 15 of those blocks followed a halftime interview critical of Wilt

Jaylen Brown on who called him first after he got traded: “When I first got traded, I just threw my phone across the room”.

He later mentions it is either Tyrese Maxey or VJ Edgecombe.

LeBron James & Kobe Bryant EPIC USA Basketball Duel | 2007 Team USA Scrimmage

Insane modern stat: For most nba players shooting 41% from 3 at volume would be a career year, for Steph Curry it would lower his career average

Let’s say nothing further comes out about Kawhi Leonard’s cap evasion situation after today: How long should he be suspended and what should the Clippers punishment be?