A billable hours dream.

Mr Rileys car….is green

They probably charged more. While WLRK bills by hour technically, they don’t send bills broken out by task. You get a bill that says “Services Rendered” with the hours and amount, and that’s that. Actually got them into a bit of trouble on the Twitter buying case, because half their associates were writing shit like “strategy” on hours that did have to get reviewed by a court.

That 6 million a year 

Guarantee it

Biglaw is genuinely the biggest scam industry in the world. These mfs do nothing for no one. 

Probably $2k for a partner

“Not a wartime consigliere”

One of his first statements as commissioner was essentially “we need to legalize gambling!”. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

And they let the heat trade for him. That doesn’t ruin the integrity of the league but the Jazz tanking does!

Is the implication that it wasn’t before? Scott Foster called Tim Donaghy hundreds of times before and after games and he is still in the NBA and one of their top refs. Propped up under Stern.

100%. Worst commissioner in my lifetime, any major US sport, IMO. He gets a lot of credit for “getting shit done”, but I can’t think of anything he’s done to make the actual game better. He’s fully leaned into the clippification of the sport. The drama. The machinations. The corruption.

Also, this may be me just showing my age and how the world has passed me by. Everywhere I look, people, Americans particularly, are unmoored to anything that was seemingly vital to pro social human experience. Everything is about attention and hoarding wealth. The sanctity of relationships, shared experience, and integrity of competition is subsumed by fealty at the alter of the dollar.

Owners own the league and players co-sign the CBA. League makes more money, players get more money, that’s all that matters.

Wouldn’t matter, Vegas is looking at EVERY unusual bet.

There’s no such thing as an untraceable burner phone anymore. Unless you pay a homeless person 6 months in advance to go buy it in cash for you and then literally never use it in your hometown or around any of your other devices.

Breaking bad style flip phone you break after

A voice note even. That’s just a careless criminal activity

He didn’t go to University of Louisville because of his intelligence.

To prevent this situation where they are shown to look the other way on gambling fraud.  

Right? I’m sure the NBA is very complicit in a massive gambling ring involving numerous teams, refs, and players, they have no incentive to cooperate because it would destroy them. Rozier is just the tip of the iceberg.

Further proof that the NBA wouldn’t know a “smoking gun “ if it hit them in the face.

that Scott Foster - Donaghy phone call stat people frequently cite?

that was covered in the Pedowitz report. the firm that authored that report, and cleared all referees other than Donaghy?

Wachtell Lipton

It’s in their best interest for any evidence to disappear. Same reason they always use the same law firm for investigations.

The player’s association would rightfully throw a fit and win any grievance based on any action taken over just a text and unusual betting activity.

He’s here to get buckets, not critical thinking.

Unwary Terry

Dumb jock acts like a dumb jock? Wow!

I always say this, but the average high school kid is probably better-educated than most professional athletes. These guys have basically been doing nothing but sports since middle school. I feel like most pro athletes, as impressive as they are in their fields, can barely spell their own names. 

Because there are probably dozens of guys not getting caught

Yea the NBA can’t just serve a subpoena.

Because the CBA doesn’t have these circumstances written into it to justify the league/team from withholding his checks. Think the only cases actually in the CBA to allow withholding pay was domestic violence and child abuse.

He didn’t get proven innocent or is even in the clear to not have his contract voided later down the road/sued back for the money, they just can’t withhold his pay the way they were doing so under the current CBA.