Hell yeah. Get wrecked strawman!

Stern would have punished them just because they were stupid enough to get caught.

But also heavily punished the Timberwolves for the Joe Smith stuff and trying to circumvent the salary cap rules, which feels pretty similar to this.

And yet the most extreme example you could find still shows that he would have done more than Commissioner highlight reel

You’ll never guess who was Stern’s deputy who was with him in the meeting they had with the FBI just before torpedoing that investigation

You’ll also never guess who was the first sports commissioner since 1919 to endorse legalize gambling

That was a totally normal number of times for Tim Donaghy to call Scott Foster. Find a new slant.

Fuck Stern, was as corrupt as they come. It’s a shame that these dirt bags are associated with and run the sport that we love.

Like all commissioners are corrupt, you have to be to get to that spot. Stern (and Bud Selig) were just the next level of corrupt

Nah Stern would’ve done something about it when the news came out, but he would’ve worked first to make sure no one ever found out in the first place

Stern never pimped out jerseys to the highest bidder, or actively tried to paywall games and make them less accessible to fans. Shit Stern fined us 250k for sitting our aging core in a regular season game. A concept called “load management” that is now widely accepted by the league and completely out of control. It was enabled by who you might ask? That’s right, Adam silver

Did you remember to wipe your ass this time?

Idk that Id say “random” but the average sports fan wasn’t super aware of him before this Kawhi story broke. Now he’s everywhere.

Idk bro I never heard of him before the Kawhi & Aspiration stuff came out. Maybe that makes me a casual, but in my eyes it’s more proof that he was just a random sports journalist before the scandal got him national attention

I’m just saying he’s a sports journalist who sees the commissioner trying to sweep this under the rug so he has to make it a spectacle

wtf

Sadly it’s 2026 and that’s how you have to play the game 

Damn bro I didn’t realize NBA fans fucking hate having fun

How tf are you more annoyed with Pablo’s theatrics than the NBA and Clippers’ corruption lol. Like sure maybe you find Pablo annoying but how tf does that supersede the message here.

What’s wrong with that?

I mean if ESPN going to be silly without any actual content, Torres can be be silly with actual news.

I totally hear you. I’ve listened to Pablo a lot. He has awesome and interesting content. He’s spiking on the theatrics a few times and it basically boils down to this….. Journalism as we once knew it is dying. From politics to sports, there is less quality journalism because it doesn’t sell. Papers are being shut down, uncovered truths are being ignored because nobody pays attention. So he’s trying to balance actual journalism with an interesting way of getting his information out there because the world has changed

I mean he’s been on this case for over a year. Even he has to entertain himself to stay motivated I’d imagine.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it did it really fall? Unfortunately, journalism is truly dead, and this is the only way to get attention, even for important topics.

Who cares? His journalism is legitimate and he’s making a fool of the powers that be, that’s a win for me

Which one do you think he wants to be more in this day and age? Being a good journalist doesn’t grant you a podcast.

He has to to not only make a name for himself but to also push them to acknowledge his findings otherwise they could sweep it under the rug and his influence on the situation and recognition he would get from it would vanish

I think that’s kind of the entire point here though. The NBA is trying to ignore it and hoping people will forget move on. How do you counter that? Pull a bunch of ridiculous stunts to continue to keep it in the news cycle.

It’s not like Torre’s doing stuff like this for the other leagues he’s reported on.

The more theatrical and viral this gets, the more Silvers hand is gonna be forced. Do you care more about how he “acts” or that the Clippers are properly punished?

I mean what is he supposed to do? Hes airing stuff out. The public knows whats up at this point. We’re not going to stop paying the league money over it, so theyre just going to ignore it.

At least he’s doing actual meaningful work. Think about how much time and effort went into uncovering this

I remember it being the primary reason there weren’t any major pro sports teams in Vegas until recently. They didn’t want the optics of being connected to a city known for its gambling like that.

And it really is. We have players now constantly making changes in plays to benefit gambling. We have reffs that make decisions based of gambling. Its such a shitfest. Adam has also made the product unwatchable. Some people need multiple streaming subs just to watch games of different teams. The product is absolute garbage. 

Adam Silver walked so Emmanuel Clase could throw a few first pitches in the dirt for $20000 a throw.

Yeah they have to say things like “I don’t like Pablo’s attitude.” Or “this all feels super performative and unprofessional”. You see it in every Pablo thread

“You shall not pass” - Gandalf

I don’t know, but if I had to guess probably both

Hey, say what you will about Jeffrey Epstein’s close person friend David Stern, but he was a strong commish! He made AI wear a suit, uplifting the black community

They’re young and they heard Adam Friedland say the Stern thing, so they’re just repeating it lol

The Pablo Who Loved Me

Ngl I was made more aware of the burger bc of the video and bought it to try it out. Maybe that was their plan the whole time….