Release the Ballmer files

Guilty pleas move through court faster than full trials. “Disgrace”

Being the richest owner in your league does pay dividends, ya know.

Show us the trees

Adam Silver doesn’t give a fuck about anything, Im not convinced he even likes basketball. He is just a sleezy salesman that will do anything for a quick buck and his product just so happens to be basketball right now.

I mean I think given the severity it makes sense to spend more time on the investigation on Kawhi to make sure you get it right.

Making a mistake on Hansen isn’t as big as making a mistake on Kawhi.

According to Shams the Blazers came forth with it to the league and reported it themselves.

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In all fairness, this offensive did take place prior to when the Kawhi story came out. If we’re working with an identical timeline here, and assuming the nba started to investigate the same day as the initial Pablo Torre report came out, then the clippers would be punished in approximately 2 months. Having said that, I still don’t expect the clippers to be adequately punished, if at all.

Seriously if they don’t get fucked over like the wolves did for doing the same thing (but with fucking Joe Smith) I’m going to lose it. Due diligence is taking place I guess but I have such a bad feeling they’re getting off easy in comparison and for a player of actual consequence.

NBA is a hypocritical league lead by hypocritical Adam silver

I think this just means it will take 2 years to do something about the Clippers because they slow af

Your coach is colludin’ with gangsters, your front office colludin’ in China…

Yall some colludin’ motherfuckers up there in the Pacific Northwest.

It’s aspirational 😈😉

Hansen was a project frp but yeah

Wolves were apparently interested in him at the 17th pick.

What’s hilarious is Portland getting shit for this and just fucking absolutely nothing happening to clippers. What a joke of a league.

Genuinely cackling at the idea of losing your job as GM of an NBA franchise because you colluded to draft a guy who isn’t even that good

i dont even understand what the violation could be, like how do you tamper with a prospect?

everyone knows teams will give prospects a “promise” to draft them at certain spots, thats not even an open secret its just like basic scouting. second round prospects tell teams not to draft them bc they have a contract already lined up to sign as an undrafted FA, like naz reid. what could illegal contact even be? hansen’s agent bribing our front office is the only thing i can even think of and that seems very unlikely

Well, you see, not owned by a Microsoft alum anymore, so no more plot armor like Ballmer…

He was seen as a project so it’s likely that they thought he would be amazing long term.

They can make huge profits in China just from selling his jerseys and other Portland-related stuff. Maybe that’s the only reason

Bullshit for sure. Aspiration hit better be a nuke then

Yang Hansen will be great. 

Jail Blazers are back 

Genuinely forgot about billups— can’t believe that was during this season. He’s still technically the coach on an indefinite suspension? This league sure likes to take their time in deciding how to handle crises.

This feels so disproportional compared to what the Clippers keep getting away with.

Christ. Now do Kawhi

Conspiracy theorists are saying they purposely did all this to help launch the premier of the jail blazers on Netflix

This just in: Blazers have been fined for the Kawhi Leonard & Aspiration saga

i’d be surprised if they say anything before the finals are over

Y’all wanted a west coast team to be punished for illegally talking to a player, you got your wish.

Nothing to see here, move along

It’s clear that nothing is going to happen on that front until the offseason because of what a shit show it will be, no matter what the verdict is.

Is he like really bad

Next Jokic let them cook

Never self report. Lesson learned.

If the NCAA and…really any billion dollar industry has taught me. Don’t cooperate. Shoulda ignored this and let them find this in a few years (if ever). Especially regarding the fact that they reached super hard for this guy. I like a reward for a gamble. Clippers should be punished though.

Now

If the Clippers face this same exact type of punishment right now for Kawhi ($20M+ fine & front office executives being suspended 6-12 months) would this subreddit even find that fair?

If you want the gauntlet thrown at them then don’t rush the results. They’re trying to dig up everything to see if there’s any smoking gun. The longer the investigation takes the more legitimate the results (whether innocent or guilty) will be cause they will have had time to go through everything.

Doesn’t matter. Rules are rules and if they’re broken the nba can’t just say they don’t care and let it slip on by.

Not a year and a half before the draft. And definitely not before they’ve declared.

Before a player has declared for the draft, its very limited as far as what kind of contact is permitted. Basically, it can be one way only. Evaluation only and no recruitment.

Probably exchanging currency in grey markets for StarCraft with 16 year old Yang Hansen

The Blazers self-reported. They admitted wrong. Ballmer and the Clippers claim innocence. The league has to prove that they’re lying.

One takes significantly less time than the other.

How do you know they get nothing?

The clippers getting by without even a slap on the wrist for the aspiration fiasco

Wasting a 1rp on Yang was enough of a punishment for this in the first place

Mike Schmitz gave Yang a reach-around in the bathroom of a Luckin Coffee in Zibo, China.

Just this season?

Still better than cheating at cards for a \(10,000 payment from the mob when you're a multimillionaire and have a current job paying \)3m/year!