Raps guy is just speculating cause of the governors meeting

NBA didn’t say shit to the Heat about Terry Rozier being under investigation when they traded for him, I’m not taking them at their word

For all I know, I’m expecting this to be concluded in September

a Tuesday in the upcoming weeks

That Raps guy has been wrong on just about everything, lol

Raps guys is covering for the Raps FO fuckup. Besides he is one of the worst Raps reporter. Bobby Webster and Raps FO are basically incompetent idiots for going through this without checking in with the NBA first.

They hired the most expensive law firm on the planet. I don’t think cost is their top priority with this

During one of the Pablo Torre episodes on this the guest who used to run an MLB team said that Ballmer would be on the hook for the bills if the NBA was run the same way as the MLB

Honestly? Respect. If the NBA is going to waste everyone’s time dragging out punishing the (very clearly guilty) Clippers then the firm might as well get their money’s worth for it.

They can give Silver just the highlights in their conclusion.

as pointed out by someone on twitter, the Warren Commission has now taken less time to come to a conclusion than this ‘investigation’ lol

Bro Wachtell partners are probably treating the NBA like royalty. They aren’t milking them and leaving a dry husk. This job could be done by a number of big law firms and landing the NBA as a client is huge.

Firms want repeat business. They don’t just charge as much as they want to big businesses and say here ya go lmao. Partners negotiate and clients scrutinize hours.

Word is Silver did that firm dirty before back when he was a lawyer so this is revenge

The Sarver investigation which was also led by Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz took 313 days from the Baxter Holmes article to the NBA’s announcement of Sarver’s punishment.

It’s now been 309 days since Torre’s Kawhi podcast. So, any day now…

no. they had to ruin our off-season.

every other team already did their trades 😭

If it’s some bullshit slap on the wrist, probably.

If they’re dropping the nuke? Probably best to have all the ducks in a row.

Fwiw the Sarver investigation was also done under a similar timeline and that one didn’t even need the league to have an arbitration proceeding to enforce afterwards.

It could’ve been if the firm wasn’t milking the NBAs pockets

The Donaghy investigation took 14 months and that was a cover up. Do you know how long legal investigations take?

If there’s so much shady stuff to sift through that the investigation takes a year, it should be a clear decision for the NBA

Pablo had this shit done like a year ago

It’s like purgatory, and neither of those dudes deserve it. They’re great.

The limbo is extra rough bc they don’t even know which country they will be living in the next year. And they might not know for weeks? That’s crazy.

Ballmer to Raps - “It’s all being swept under the rug, don’t worry”

Trade news breaks. 

Silver to Raps - um guys, we’re about to announce Kawhi is being banned for a year and his contract voided, maybe get out of that one. You’re not Miami so I’m giving you a heads up. 

I mean it’s pretty stupid of the Raptors to trade for a player under an active investigation especially after what just happened to the Hornets.

I’ve seen investigations take longer for simple office allegations.

Fuck Silver but y’all don’t know how investigations in real life work lmao.

I mean not really Adam silvers fault that you guys traded for a bad asset 

It was the best you could do and that’s why you did it. You weren’t in the running for G or brown 

They better not f’k the Raptors in this. Compensatory pics or 1 extra lottery ball for every 20 games of Kawai suspension.

The Donaghy investigation took 14 months and that was a cover up. Do you know how long legal investigations take?

B please, you had no package for Giannis and no salary for Brown.

How many weird conspiracy theories around this story are going to be wrong before people stop looking for them? Do you think no one will look at a phone on labor day or something?

Can’t sweep it under the rug now haha - this story just put it incredibly top of mind and you’re going to have two fanbases now very invested because now even Clippers fans lose out on a solid haul of picks if they can’t get a resolution

🧹🧹nothing to see here!!

Friday news dump

More like on LeBron Day

It’s way too risky of a trade lmfao. Let’s say he gets suspended for half a season. That’s really not worth trading as many pieces as they have. And that’s not even considering what would happen if it’s a full-season suspension. Kawhi back to the Raptors makes sense on paper, but jfc.

Logic?

No one has seen their defense except the firm investigating it

LeBron isn’t signing for the Raps or Clips so why does it matter to him? 

Why would he do that? If anything LeBron signing somewhere would be the best possible distraction away from this.

This has alot to do with the delay IMO

Every thread would have the most obvious astro turfers exhorting fans to trust in the legal process

You have idiots in other threads saying “holy shit the trade might not happen”

Kawhi is going to get the remainder of his contract voided and will be a free agent that cant sign with the Clips. There wont even be a trade to veto.

especially when Silver didnt tell the Heat shit about Rozier and let the trade go through.

If not for Pablo this wouldve went the same way most likely.

The NBA didn’t say Tuesday. A raptors reporter did

I know, a lot faster then I expected