If true, then he needs forced out.

Probably the same way I did when I learned that Tom Gores made his fortune extorting money from incarcerated people wanting to contact their family, or the way Mavericks fans react every time they learn something new about the Adelson family. Literally all these ownership-class motherfuckers are human garbage.

Not a Grizz fan but in the words of Nate Diaz “I’m not surprised motherfuckers”

I’m sure they’re huge fans of it. What kind of question is this?

I already assume all the owners are terrible people

It’s weird knowing that Roman Abramovich eventually had to sell Chelsea FC due to Ukraine/Russia conflict however the same can’t be said for Grizzlies

It is funny you think Grizzlies fans feel anything anymore.

In 25+ years of being a grizzlies fan, I have maybe seen this man twice. He doesn’t live here, never attends games, and never talks to the media. I assume every owner in the NBA is a horrible person, so I’m not surprised.

Mavs owner, evil as fuck

Magic owner, evil as fuck

Grizzlies fans: how do you feel knowing that I’m better than you because I watched a podcast that just dropped an hour ago at 5AM?

I don’t think any Grizzlies fans are fans because of the team owner.

Breaking news -

Billionaire makes money through nefarious means

I am burning my Pera jersey as we speak.

They don’t have a subreddit??? This feels like forced shaming vs just reporting the news. OP, do you expect a fan to be fine with this??? You know you aren’t expecting it.

I guess all of you shouldn’t be watching the NBA which is an american basketball league held in a country in which the president has death squads running around murdering citizens

His fortune and Ubiquiti’s wealth in general has largely derived from selling network equipment to Western enterprises and wealthy tech enthusiast individuals.

It does seem like Ubiquiti turned a blind eye to equipment being diverted through countries like Turkey and Kazakhstan, but to say Robert Pera’s fortune derives from selling to Iran and Russia is misleading. It’s more like he’s willing to let equipment get diverted through to Iran and Russia for an extra 5-10% bump in revenue rather than doing the right thing and tightly controlling the distributors. Morally scummy and ethically problematic to be sure, but different from straight up dealing drones or T-72s to Russia. More like Nvidia turning a blind eye to Chinese individuals buying 5090s in Malaysia

Let’s hope this expose scares him straight since it seems like previous incidents didn’t dissuade him (he even said if it happened again it would get him in trouble, but it happened again lol)

https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/

Ja got suspended for finger guns. This is way worse if true. I’m waiting to see if there will be similar levels of outrage.

Ubiquiti doesn’t really have any kind of a sales presence, and based on what I’ve seen, these are being routed through a third party in Türkiye? In that case, what’s the scandal here? Like, there’s not hard evidence that Ubiquiti is directly supplying equipment to Russia, is there?

Back when he was first buying the team, there were rumors that his company Ubiquiti was bed with the Chinese mafia. Those stories caused his stock price to plummet and he had to bring in partners to buy the Grizzlies.

The stories went away, his stock price skyrocketed, and he bought out the partners after they attempted a hostile takeover.

Robert Pera has never been a presence in Memphis. He put a Memphis guy in charge of the org, but his 13 years of never seeming to see Memphis as priority as a market has always been concerning.

Also many of the choices of the franchise seem to be about his level of comfort with the players on the team more than keeping the best players.

So if he’s doing crooked stuff, there is no surprise over here.

This would hurt a lot more if the Grizz had a Memphis based owner doing dirt.

Feel like Pablo Torre discovered an unlimited money glitch.. he will never run out of billionaires committing war crimes to go after 😂

All these owners are ghouls. What’s a little light treason?

Do not care. All billionaires have done or do shitty stuff.

The US military complex supplies a huge chunk of weapons $$$$$$$$$ to the rest of the world - see Israel

If you are opposed to this, you should be opposed to the US Government

meanwhile US gov sends billion to Israel to fund a genocide and y’all are singing the national anthem before every nba games

Bro.. just re-title this to “Grizzlies Owner Making Fortune Off Selling Wifi Equipment to Iran and Russia”

Oh man that one dude who became a fan because he likes the owner is gonna be really upset

Literally don’t care at all.

So much of this is honestly just blatant Russophobia, it’s not grounded in reality.

Do we have this kinda smoke for the owners providing material support to all kinds of other militaristic groups?

Let’s be clear: Pablo Torre is a fucking idiot.

Ubiquiti isn’t directly selling to Russia or Iran. Third party resellers are. It’s not their fault that those companies are doing so and the fault lies in the resellers, not Ubiquiti. If you’re going to bitch about Ubiquiti, what about Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, or any other major US company where the same issue happens? (their equipment finds its way into Russia’s hands via third party sellers as well).

This is a moronic hitpiece and everyone upvoting it lacks reading comprehension or basic thinking skills.

Aren’t the Orlando owners happily finding Israel’s genocide ?

Take them out too

Ubiquiti is one of the only options for low cost networking gear for small businesses. Your local mcdonalds probably uses it. Iranians wear Nike too you mad about that?

Also “Ubiquiti” and “Pera”

Truly awful and I’d love to see consequences, but good lord what do you think the elite do? Many run guns and most break laws. Did you think a billion dollars is ethically earned?

Im not even informed enough to know titles can be made this long

Show me a billionaire, and I’ll show you a person who did some of the worst stuff to make as much money as possible.

I’m a Grizzlies fan, not a Pera fan. Don’t need to bend in a pretzel to justify this just because I like the team - prosecute this man and let’s get a new owner.

Lmao asking americans about morals. Money first. That’s the top prioritie.

Not good.

Don’t care

What do you expect to hear? Lol.

No fan base cares about their owner

I mean, why is it the fans problem. Shouldn’t the government be responsible for putting criminals in jail? Oh, wait.

If this is found to be true after a legit investigation, Silver has to force a sale. Fuck billionaires.

The selfish part of me wonders about the future of the Grizz in Memphis though. Pera has always been committed to keeping the franchise in Memphis. It would be hard to imagine new ownership would dismiss the dollar signs in their eyes from relocating the franchise to Nashville.

Steve Ballmer & Microsoft essentially does the same thing for the US military. Every modern war including the millions of innocents killed in Iraq and Gaza was done with Microsoft’s support.

Should we pretend the US is different and only criticize owners who profit from the US’s imperial rivals?

Note to OP: It’s spelled Ubiquiti. I didn’t realize at first that was the company until I saw it on screen.

It’s a huge player in consumer/prosumer networking equipment and they are shilled constantly by youtubers like Linus Tech Tips. I haven’t read the article/finished the video yet but it’ll be interesting if they were actually aware and complicit or if it was a “they bought stuff off the shelf” situation.

I finally know why God hates us

Right, its only ok when billionairs support american wars and crimes against humanity….but this, this really goes too far.

Hot take:

Every billionaire owner is up to some shit. Whether it fits the current political norms/narratives is up to the public, I guess.

Who benefits from this? Someone who wants to buy the Grizz

Looks like Ja Morant is not the most bloodthirsty individual in the Grizzles organization.

Probably the poorest though.

is he part of the russian mob

They used to call this treason

I don’t care. I’m a HUGE fan of Ubiquiti and love its gear. I doubt they actually support those regimes and are just trying to make money.

You can’t become a billionaire by working really hard… if you have an ethical qualm with one of the owners and how they make money then you shouldn’t be watching any team. These people are ghouls, it’s ok to like sports but why are we picking and choosing when they’re all grotesque pieces of shit

Not to get depressing this early in the day but I’m willing to bet roughly 100% of sports team owners got their money in ways that aren’t legal

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. There’s no good NBA owners, there’s no good billionaire.

If I was a Grizzlies fan I literally couldnt care less.

Absolutely horrible. 

But I guess we’re just use to bad news at this point. 

I am also sure our owner isn’t the only demon…

I feel very bad about it

Calling Iran a criminal regime when we are the leaders in the world in invasions is incredibly tone deaf.

Don’t care as long as he keeps the Grizzlies in Memphis and builds a new stadium.

How many owners support the U.S. government?

Oh so being super rich doesn’t mean they are good people or acquired wealth through pure hard work? Shocked. Shocked I say.

Sad, disappointed, but ultimately not surprised. I would be surprised if Tuomas is not gonna be livid when hearing about it.

Every tech company has products purchased by blacklisted countries, the problems is if that tech company has either facilitated the purchase, or knowing sold the products even through a 3rd party.

Could care less about Iran. Iran has done nothing to America. 

wifi equipment? LMAO. what about the people supporting israel’s genocide?

Someone needs to give Pablo a whole bunch of awards. And money. Money and awards.

I mean, we live in Tennessee, a state which still supports a billionaire war criminal. The red hat is worn by 64+% of this state. And our owner is just another Putin ally. I am personally against both of these realities.

So russian military posed as another entity and bought the most common wifi equipment in the world and smuggled it through Turkey and now the owner of Ubiquiti is hitler?

Are you all stupid?

Add it to the pile