I aspire to be like you

Adam Silver just chopped it down

I’m getting paid to plant one. I’m not gonna do it, since it runs contrary to my personal beliefs, but I am getting paid to do it

Saying I’ll plant a tree and then not plant a tree in his honor.

I’ll dig it up and burn it to honor Steve Ballmer

copy that - me too.

They’ll still sweep it under the rug.

For those wondering, Pulitzer is generally considered the highest honour you can receive for journalism in the US, equivalent to the Oscars in the field. Yearly they give around 23 awards in total out;

15 awards in journalism

7 awards in letters, drama, and books

1 award in music

Adam Silver is too busy counting dollars to feel any embarrassment

It’s even more embarrassing for the lack of investigative journalism in far more important aspects of our country tbh, a fucking sports reporter won this award in the most corrupt year of our country in a century

Also a bad look for reddit, which has been astroturfing against this guy for months now. Every Pablo thread is full of people with 70 comment karma on their account but suddenly hyperposting about how old news/boring he is.

Technically “after the 2026 All-Star Game” covers the entire rest of human history

Maybe he is mad about the NFL and Christmas and is waiting until game 1 of the NFL season to drop a news nuke.

Isn’t the outside firms investigation still ongoing?

r/nba specializes in making up scenarios and then being outraged those made up scenarios didn’t come to fruition

I’m no defender of Silver, and he’s probably going to light handed on Ballmer, but that post-ASB deadline reporting was literally never sourced from the league or the law firm, it was just assumed as the earliest point of release because the Clippers were hosting the ASG

People thought that?

Agreed. This has to be the most significant sports news break in at least a decade, in defiance of very rich and powerful entities, with impeccable reporting.

The best reporting today is being done by smaller or one-person operations. I’m especially excited for a lot of the worker owned outlets that are opening up. 404 media is doing some of the best tech and privacy reporting out there.

It’s been a rough week for him lol

“I’ve never seen anybody dine on a stupider story for a week and a half while pretending you’re a journalist. What the f–k was that? Seriously.”

“Belichick is dating a girl. Oh, let me do nine shows about it. Settle the f–k down … You don’t need to do a media tour about a f–king podcast.”

For BS, journalism is sitting behind a podcast mic and bullshitting for an hour in between fanduel advertisements. 

Bill Simmons has always been primarily a commentator, never a journalist. I don’t think he’s really claimed to be a journalist, let’s be fair. If he’s broken news it’s always rumors or gossip from his rich buddies. He’s usually writing opinion pieces or books that are screeds about basketball.

I say this as someone who thinks he’s overrated as a “media personality.” The Ringer is just Barstool with a veneer of sophistication.

He stopped being a journalist when he stopped actually writing. Now he’s rich and powerful enough that not enough of his inner circle calls him out on his bullshit. It’s the BS pod in more than one meaning.

Unironically one of the purposes of the Pulitzer is to shield journalists from retaliation.

It’s a lot harder for a megacorporation or billionaire to try to go after a journalist when they’ve won a Pulitzer.

Pablo’s journalism dick grew three sizes on this day

F Nick Wright. They’re not even on the same level

The episodes about the Cowboys fan on death row are nauseating and life-altering.

I relearned just how much of a piece of shit James Dolan is because of Pablo Torre and Wired magazine 😀

He follows the money. Who paid who for what tells you what you need to know 99% of the time.

Whoa. I don’t listen to podcasts…. But it sounds like I should start now.

The MLB the show episode with the old guy who’s been playing for years is also a damn good one

the bird watching episode is so good

The best was probably grizzlies owner pera‘s involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

That should’ve gotten him the Pulitzer.

The Epstein Harvard is a close second.

Goes to show you that the prize committee has an agenda of its own…

Dianna Russini erasure

I am begging for more ufc stuff from him, need Luke Thomas giving that man a multi hour lecture on a what shit wad Dana is.

He’s not doing any of that. Guarantee Silver and the league conclude there was nothing wrong with what Ballmer did. 

Mark Cuban did more public appearances for Ballmer than Ballmer himself. 

Why would they? They were in on it. Thinly veiled WWE.

Just letting them manage themselves is punishment enough. They ain’t winning a title with those decision making skills

People people like Nick Wright?

Thanks for posting this reminder.

Ballmer was also helped by ESPN jumping in almost immediately to do damage control. Shelburne being glorified PR wasn’t surprising, but I’ll always think less of some of their allegedly more serious people who minimized or misrepresented what Pablo reported, like Bobby Marks.

What alternate dimension did you just transport from where anyone in this sub thinks that Steve Ballmer is innocent?

Par for the course for pulitzer winners

yeah but luckily for us we won’t have to hear about any of that until after he reminds us he went to harvard

Less annoying than Ballmer still not being punished

Edward R Murrow

I doubt it’s a fake story. I think the league doesn’t know how to handle it. Silver is hoping people forgot about it.

You think that’s because Pablo is lying and not because Adam Silver is a corrupt piece of shit who will do anything to protect gambling companies and the wealthy?

Not significant for Pablo though. Says a lot about why he’s the only one investigating things.