I wanna be up front, I only stuck with this username bc it’s objectively funny

It’s so stupid. You can say he’s “just a podcaster” or whatever, that is completely irrelevant to the mountains of evidence he and his team have dug up on this. It could be Ronald Mc-fucking-Donald presenting all this information, it doesn’t change any of the facts. It’s not like Pablo is just talking out his ass, he has the documents, sources, etc. You don’t have to trust Pablo’s word on anything, it’s all out there.

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The yuji dude is gonna be extra busy today

Botted.

Pablo Torre is about to botted, because the powers that be need to obscure the truth is his reporting. 

Clippers fans are about to have more burner accounts than KD.

clipper fans*

Someone in the other thread used the phrase “Pablo and his Cronies” lmao

I feel seen.

oh shit, the first part is me, but I actually made this up?

but also Ballmer definitely did it lol

wat u say fuck me for

Whitewash and Lipton LLP will continue looking for facts until they find facts that are to their liking 

It’s been like 8 months. Sarver took 10 months, was suspended for a year, hit with a 10mil fine, eventually forced to sell the team, and it’s the same firm that’s doing Ballmer. An investigation like this taking longer than 10 months, going up against the 8th richest man in the world, or whatever he is, if they do decide to do something

Radio silence and waiting until the investigation is finished is a nobrainer, they don’t work as fast as your tiktok brains.

Ah, the rich people tax audit special

As shitty as it sounds, that’s the position he should take. Yeah, it looks like Ballmer and Leonard are both guilty as hell but you punish after everything is exposed. There’s a good chance nothing happens from it even then but that’s the point to get after Silver.

“Why are we still talking about this?”

Put options provide the owner with the right to sell the underlying share at a specific price. By them providing those, it basically guaranteed that the investment would go up if the value went up, but not go down if the value goes down.

This is typically frowned upon/illegal/unethical if the person receiving the Puts is associated with the company. As an insider, you are supposed to be aligned with the shareholders of the company, and if you’re not impacted if the stock goes down, you might take risky decisions that are bad for everyone but you.

For Balmer here, his investments into Aspirations was used to market the quality of the company. If a guy as successful as Balmer thought it was a good investment, then it must be. By not exposing that Balmer was not taking a risk with his investment, it’s completely unethical. Anyone else who invested based on Balmer’s “seal of approval” was taken advantage of and essentially lied to.

It’s like someone doing a review of a product without telling you they are getting paid by the company to do a good review.

Normal people get in trouble for this. I’m sure Balmer’s lawyers have it set in a way to protect him - but assuming he knew Aspirations was using his involvement to get other investors, it’s pretty shitty. And that doesn’t have anything to do with circumventing the salary cap.

I think its evidence that Ballmer did lots of shady shit around aspiration and should be punished, but i dont think its a cap circumvention smoking gun im afraid. I am not sure they need one at this point, the circumstantial evidence is pretty overwhelming

So the $50m was basically a loan that Ballmer could recoup the value on in the form of equity In Aspiration?

Not really. It sounds like he had a redemption right: the right to sell his equity back to the company at the purchase price. These usually have a time horizon: they can’t be exercised for 5-7 years, for example.

Importantly, redemption rights are not enforceable if the company is insolvent. That makes it pretty worthless to Ballmer if he knew the company was about to be insolvent.

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands… You will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.” - Anthony Bourdain

holy shit haha

Adam Silver would give him the greatest award in journalism, the only one higher than the Pulitzer, if he could.

All this to blow a 3-1 lead 😭

His uncle may not have any morals…but he might have out worked Kawhi these last few years

That or David Stern would have hammered Ballmer by now. Adam Silver is so damn spineless

I think it is more about the era we live in than its about Stern. Now everyone got smartphone and stuff they can spread info. Decades ago everything must be controlled by media. Now we are all media and it is difficult to silent people

Shoot. Scott Foster just reffed G1 of the finals. The corruption is still in plain sight. 

But I’m glad Pablo is safe. 

That’s the most interesting part. If this was done to build OKC or the Spurs, it might be a bigger scandal because the other owners would be screaming for blood. But what really happened here? Nothing. The Clippers overpaid a player who was already getting a MAX. It didn’t give them a competitive advantage at all.

Couldve just some good ole fashion father-son tampering like the Knicks instead.

Not even a WCF trip

Edit; and only 1 WCF trip

After the whistleblower complaint to the federal government came out Cuban has been completely silent

Stephen A Smith for the millionth time on ESPN: Steve Ballmer deserves the benefit of the doubt. He’s a treasure to the league and a good friend. MEANWHILE KAWHI LEONARD SORRY I HAVE TO YELL BECAUSE IT IS HIS FAULT!

Ballmer even got an interview on ESPN to explain how he really didn’t know anything lol.

All these dudes are crims and protect their own.

I wanna see him do the MLB now pre lockout. Find something Pablo!

In general I do wonder if he is holding on to anything to release right as the slap on the wrist from the league comes down

I don’t think it was known that Kawhi had a $20m put right

If Ballmer ever chooses the right player to illegally pay off books, watch out!

And yet the Clippers gave away a 2 time MVP to put all of this in motion.

I don’t really believe in karma but if I did, I’d point to that. 

Yeah. No one is beating the Clippers!!!!

Well the ugly question is why aren’t owners more upset about this? These are the kind of guys who bitch and moan if someone gets an unfair handicap advantage in golf, and the Clippers basically got a half price Max player.

Kind of makes you think this is more common and is happening in other situations around the league

Alluding to another Pablo episode, neither is the NFL. They all worked together to ensure that guaranteed contracts in the NFL never happened. An MVP of the league, Lamar Jackson, got no calls when his contract expired because he wanted guaranteed money.

NBA just giving clippers time to trade him

That’s actually a great way to punish the Clippers. Wait for the extension and then go hard. 

Absolutely. It is what it is.

Yup, honestly likely why Pablo released it now. He’s timing the releases seemingly with big moments for the league to put max pressure on Silver to actually do something (and get max attention). Dude better have good security

Lebron about to sign a minimum and get $55 million in Dodger shares.

Rui about to sign a \(5 million contract with \)15 million shares of Diaso.

Yep I won’t even be mad. I’ll just be like thanks for the blueprint!

Give the Raptors the number 5 pick!

Silver isn’t a moron. Even if he was nobody is that big a moron. Everyone knows, silver is just covering up for the richest owner who spends a lot and is quite influential. It’s not incompetence it’s corruption.

You’re right though

Im genuinely asking, not being snarky. What crime do you mean? Ballmer’s association with a project enticing other investors cant be a crime. That would mean he couldnt promote his own activities.

All of this stuff is in writing

What does this even mean?

“If this ends up being true” lol what?

Not glazing. Literally everything Pablo has shared that he doesnt specify is conjecture is true.

It’s all in writing or it’s first hand accounts.

And again, when he does opine he clarifies that its his opinion first.

I guess the implication is that if ballmer and kawhi both got put rights in the company then the company is more likely to be usable as a vehicle to funnel money to kawhi? Tbh whats being described does not make sense to me as further incriminating evidence