100B+ dollars means this is only getting started lol

I don’t get how this is supposed to make Ballmer look better. Kawhi’s camp asked for a bunch of corrupt shit. The Raptors and Lakers refused. The Clippers happily obliged.

That doesn’t make Ballmer seem any less guilty.

He should get his money back, all of this is just making him look like a moron for being the only dumbass to say “Yes.”

Flood the zone

Nah, I think there should be punishments if they truly did circumvent. Kawhi obviously should’ve took matters into his own hands, but his greedy Uncle is really someone who I think misled him.

Bro literally refused to play and sat on the injured list because the Aspiration money wasn’t coming thru

Nah, he didnt know nothing 🤣

Uncle Dennis left on an island after Ballmer and Kawhi had their puff pieces exhonerating them posted.

Watch it come out that Kawhi has no money cuz his unc

Kawhi lowkey might be the biggest diva in the NBA.

Right. Kawhi is the multimillionaire NBA superstar. Uncle Dennis has no real power over him. If Kawhi had a problem with what he was doing he could have cut ties with him but he never did.

It’s been like 8 years now of “Uncle Dennis” being the scapegoat for Kawhi’s nonsense.

How much?

There is nothing wrong with a sponsorship deal. The fuck up was Balmer not having Kawhi where aspiration tshirts and do a blog post a few times a year or something.

Wasn’t Kawhi hiding in a closet to avoid Timmy and Pop when they came to visit him in New York?

This is a good framing of the situation. Even if he didn’t know about the situation (huge doubt), ignorance is not an excuse

I mean, there isnt more to it than that. Unc said to do the bag thing and he did the bad thing.

yeah, that way you don’t get wemby. could’ve worked out worse

I thought kawhi was traded because of injury concerns??

Kawhi Leonard has played for 3 NBA teams:

Spurs: 🏆 (No Aspirations…)

Raptors: 🏆 (No Aspirations…)

Clippers: 🚫🏆 (Aspirins & Aspirations)

They’re making it seem like Dennis held gun towards both Kawhi , Ballmer and the clippers organization and said hand me all this money and find a way so that the nba doesn’t find out. The clippers could have said no to his demands, it wa la that simple

Even if they do pin it on Dennis, (let’s say he agrees to be the fall guy, so everything blows over) it still takes two to tango.

Uncle Dennis didn’t just materialize any ill-gotten gains from thin air. Someone (clippers) had to sign off on that. And it’s not like the clippers can spend ballmers money without him knowing where it’s going.

We sorta already have that. He was asked if he ever received the money from Aspiration and he said “uhhh no.” Probably the closest thing you’ll hear from him admitting he’s a victim. His lawyers might have a nice statement about his victimhood though.

Bots

1. Clippers fans who can’t come to terms with the guy who replaced Sterling is arguably just as awful albeit in a completely different way

2. Raptors fans who understandably just want Kawhi back on their team

3. Clintonistas who can’t cope with the fact that prominent Democrats aren’t much different from the Republicans they hate (project 2029 by Andrei Cherny lmao)

4. Millennials that went with the Zune then refused to ever get an iPod even after the Zune’s timely death and know if Kawhi is guilty so is Ballmer

5. The haters who dislike whatever the ‘trending sentiment’ is. The majority of this sub knows Ballmer and Kawhi circumvented the cap so they take the opposite side

6. The reactionists who believe too much blame is being put onto Kawhi instead of Ballmer so they overreact and try to pin all of the blame on Ballmer and none on Kawhi

7. The ‘letter of the law’ types who know that Wachtell Lipton will never find a video or email from Kawhi saying “I am signing this deal with Aspiration and Daktronics in order to circumvent the salary cap” therefore Kawhi will always have plausible deniability therefore he is innocent

8. Cuban fanboys who treat him like a god because he’s charismatic and has done some truly good things like Cost Plus Drugs so his word is truth

9. The WorkReform types who believe the relationship between an NBA player and the owner is identical to the typical manager-employee relationship in corporate America so all fault in this scandal lies with the billionaire owner

10. Lakers fan who don’t care about Kawhi’s legacy being tainted as much as they care about the Clippers legacy being tainted. The more fault that lies with the Clippers, the larger the taint

I probably missed a few but that’s what I’ve got right now

No no no. A 35 year old man, much less a mega-millionaire, simply can’t make decisions for himself. Uncle Dennis tricked the poor sop.

Jokes aside yeah, Uncle Dennis used Kawhi to line his pockets. OP is too dumb to realize that Kawhi also used that financial leverage over Uncle Dennis to have Dennis make all of the illicit deals on his behalf. Dude has never read a single paragraph on how mob bosses and top level gangsters would run their operations. Everything in this scandal has been textbook gangster tactics. Cap circumvention isn’t a crime but the parallel is powerful, wealthy people who want to make illicit deals. And that means keeping those deals in the shadows.

He’s not entirely wrong. Uncle Dennis used his relationship with Kawhi to make bank. But OP is too stupid to realize that Kawhi used that financial leverage over Dennis to have him make all of these illicit deals in hopes that Dennis would take the fall instead of Kawhi if shit hit the fan.

The rest of the league does not want this to be normalized. Look at the MLB right now. Who just formally proposed a salary cap? The owners.

Peter Holt’s net worth is $200,000,000. One ‘Kawhi-sized’ deal would require 25% of his net worth. Do you think he wants this normalized? He’d legitimately be bankrupt in a few years if he started paying his players backdoor deals. You think he could afford Wemby’s next extension, not to mention the other Spurs players?

Do you think Tom Dundon wants to start paying players out of his own pocket? Sure he wants to win but he also wants money. Star players get butts in seats. He’s not gonna pay any player a backdoor deal out of his own pocket and he doesn’t want to compete with Ballmer and the other top owners to get stars on his team.

There aren’t many owners who can afford the illicit deals that Kawhi got from Ballmer. Sure a good chunk of them can afford it a few times but what happens when every player expects these types of deals? What is the market value of Jokic, Wemby, Tatum, Booker, Curry, etc? Without a salary cap the answer is “whatever someone is willing to pay.”

I do not think the owners are as ok with this as people think they are. They do not want to spend money out of their pockets to get players to their team. They also don’t want to vote Ballmer out. My guess is that there will be some heavy handed punishments handed out (though not any bans, except for Uncle Dennis) but there will be undisclosed agreements/contracts that guarantee Ballmer never does this again.