[Abbott] Similarly, billionaire Mark Cuban has gotten himself some airtime. He argues that he, Cuban, knew Aspiration was a fraud from the first email he ever received. But curiously he also later argues that it makes sense that Steve Ballmer would not have known that Aspiration was a fraud.
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Similarly, billionaire Mark Cuban has gotten himself some airtime. He argues that he, Cuban, knew Aspiration was a fraud from the first email he ever received. But curiously he also later argues that it makes sense that Ballmer would not have known that Aspiration was a fraud.
And then there’s Cuban’s core argument: Aspiration benefitted from Kawhi being a Clipper more than the Clippers benefitted from Kawhi being a Clipper. OK, whatever Mark. (One of the top comments on that episode came from Sean Murphy: “I found this episode to be incredibly infuriating. Mark Cuban just was going off of vibes.”) Billionaires get to be heard, whether they have anything important to say or not.
Instead of billionaire bloviating I’m hungry for the Katniss Everdeen vibe of telling it like it is, even when that pisses people off. We are desperate for real media truth telling in the NBA.
I’m a believer that we need to root for beautiful and honest truth telling. We need 100 times more than we have, across all parts of society. The NBA is essentially an organization of billionaires, who are Adam Silver’s bosses.
When stories emerge implicating powerful people, often what happens is that people nick up that narrative while pretending to be on the real hunt for truth. Cuban made a first shoddy attempt at that. It won’t convince me.