“They Conned Me!”

Schrodinger’s billionaire:

“They deserve to be grotesquely rich because they’re far smarter and harder working than the rest of us”

Also

“I fell for a carbon credit financier/loan company to the tune of tens of millions of dollars”

“I WAS SCAMMED, I WAS ROBBED, I WAS A VICTIM”

The layers of irony in him playing the victim card on this Aspiration scandal

Right lol I had to do a damn double take

15th richest man on the planet.

Victim.

I’m sorry, but these two things are mutually exclusive.

Won’t somebody please think of the billionaires??

I’m not sorry

This is how society in general works now where people want to play the victim so badly because they can’t do whatever they want

for real, it sounds like something from that Deltron album or something lol. A weird scifi version of culture

My girl is an environmental law attorney. She has never once been interested in what I say about basketball before this

It makes sense though, carbon credits are made up bs. A lot of made up bs in the NBA.

Those 2 weeks where he randomly became Ballmer’s personal PR rep were wild.

With Benjamins falling out of his pockets.

If only they had some way to asborb their losses, poor billionaires who own 99.99999999999999999999999699999969999999999999999969999996999999999996999999999996999999999996999999999969996999999999999996% of the world’s wealth

Truly, we need to start a GoFundMe asap

These are submitted in every criminal trial before sentencing to counter the letters from the defense about how great the defendant is. Ballmer probably still shouldn’t have written one.

Meanwhile the Clippers’ sub is eating it up! The idea that their billionaire super fan would ever do something so underhanded is so farfetched that we’re the idiots for believing it lmao

The NBA absolutely plans to, though

It’s an opportunity to use the attention on Ballmer’s press release and post to amplify his own message again to people who may not have gotten all the details or are inclined, potentially, to believe figures of authority.

It’s also an opportunity to just amplify his own podcast and brand and such for free which is something every creator/brand would hop on provided it’s not legally suspect.

It’s also important because Ballmer basically calls him a liar who fabricated the results of his investigation. It’s good to challenge such statements made frivolously by someone attempting to silence Pablo’s message.

You kinda have to if Ballmer is discrediting his reporting, and by extension, questioning his journalistic integrity.

Kinda? It is one.

Aww yeah! I love that site, I book marked it like 13 years ago.

Carbon credits may be the appropriate payment when acquiring certain wastes of oxygen.

That water must be getting pretty heavy by now sir.

It’s hilarious how confidently incorrect you are in this strange re-reading of what was said.

The two former employees made the allegation and signed it under penalty of perjury. These same allegations are exactly what the Federal Government used to convict Joel Sandberg already, so we know they at least contain enough merit to have accomplished that.

This isn’t the same as you saying you allegedly saw Pablo slap the Pope. It’s you saying you saw Pablo slap the pope, you’re willing to go to jail if someone shows you didn’t see that, and your statement plus additional evidence had been used to convict Pablo of assaulting the pope.

Ballmer is trying to play both sides, on one hand he’s so happy that Sandberg was caught by the feds, on the other hand he somehow is accusing the same people who helped Sandberg get caught of lying on the very same documents they used to convict him.

Clippers fans covering for this shit is pathetic. Learn to read or how our legal system works and find a better team to root for while you’re at it.

Because they have common sense? There is no other reason a “secret endorsement” would ever get signed, not to mention it being for triple the money as celebrities who are 10 times more famous.

Because people did 1+1 when everything around the kawhi aspiration looked shady

i’m assuming anyone in Aspiration who could see almost $30mio going to Kawhi for seemingly doing nothing would suspect foul play

The old Eddie Debartalow trick…. this aint the first time this has happened in professional sports….

There’s one whistleblower who was told that it was for cap circumvention

“hardly any evidence” get real man, i hope you’re at least getting paid to shill for Ballmer

Keep licking those boots 😜

hi steve

“Who does this poor think he is to even be involved with the complex, magical dealings of the rich”

This take goes beyond bootlicking, you’re straight up deepthroating that bad boy

Ok mark cuban

He was mentioned directly in Ballmer’s victim statement. Commenting seems warranted and reasonable.

Well, I guess we found Ballmer’s reddit account

Pablo is responding because Ballmer’s victim impact statement supposedly referenced and criticized Pablo’s reporting.

He would never do that. It would bring an insane amount of unwanted attention to both him and the NBA. It’s also clear that there is some level of tampering with Kawhi outside of this situation as well and nobody wants that coming to light. 

He’s is definitely not a reporter. He is a a guy who could get a good LSAT score and this is what he chose to do with his life. I hope the whole incident discredits him

… he says on reddit lmao

That’s not what this reply is for.

Yes but you expect to Pablo to release a statement like “i guess if ballmer says he didn’t do it then he didn’t do it.”

The court of public opinion is a constant battle. 

Ok Steve