It’s not hard to cheat and get away with it. You just can’t be so stupid and, man, were these guys stupid.

Pablo teaching the world best practices of a sound money launderer

It’s kinda amazing how much harder this would be for Pablo if Kawhi just had a random Twitter post saying he’s working with these companies. Him not even bothering to lift a finger for these deals is a level of laziness I couldn’t imagine.

There’s gonna be a huge influx of players doing promos.

The Clippers: While we did do all of the cheating, we did a laudable job of attempting to not make it look like cheating. Silver: Awesome job, guys.

But they still did a bad job.

NBA is about to put a hit out on Pablo

I work in fraud and ppl will be so lazy on how they commit fraud. They’ll be superusers of an internal payroll system and try to change shit, but not realize we can reconcile with, you know, the actual external bank. 

Dude, you could’ve just stood in front of one tree for 3 seconds, and all of this would not happen.

Kawhi and Balmer need to be held accountable.

Kawhi should just have his contract voided and banned from the NBA. Simple.

That way Balmer can’t get anything of value for him.

Then bring it a step further and do 5 FRP. The wolves were given this punishment. Was found to be too harsh and dropped down to 3. Well it wasn’t enough of a threat to the league. So it needs to be more than 3 now.

None of that the wolves had it in writing… there is a huge paper trail here and already a mark against Balmer. Only an absolute idiot like Mark Cuban would belive this bullshit.

Ballmer is gonna be gunning for Pablo he better watch out

All player contracts and endorsements need to be submitted to the league for review for this reason. It appears this endorsement was only discovered through this investigation. If true the Clippers have a big problem and so does Kawhi explaining why this was never disclosed.

I’m just waiting for Balmer and the Clippers to find out.

Fucking unreal. Do something, Silver!

It won’t happen but I think Kawhi’s punishment should be on par with whatever Ballmer gets

But the reason he didn’t do stuff for daktronics is because they have no reason to sponsor anyone because they don’t sell to consumers. So having a random Kawhi Daktronics ad would raise a huge flag. They were hoping no one would notice

Why wouldn’t these companies just print a bunch of pamphlets and posters with Kawhi’s picture on it? Like wouldn’t that count as a technically legit spokesman deal?

What this shows is that, even if Kawhi is punished, there is still a blueprint to circumvent the cap moving forward. It would just require active participation by the player to make the connection/endorsement look less suspicious and lower the circumstantial evidence of a nexus between the team and the third party.

At this point, I just have to assume that any company with a sponsorship agreement with a player and his team has a sponsorship agreement with the same company is some kind of cap circumvention.

Pablo will have to keep waiting as the “ independent investigators “ won’t be making that report public.

Can you imagine the even greater shitstorm the NBA would be in if the Clippers had been competent enough to win or at least get to the NBA finals in the last 6 years? We were probably a Kawhi or PG injury away from this seeming 10x worse..

it is kind of weird how they are legit sending out emails like this, like how obvious can you get, whole process just seems like it was done by 2 year olds from all sides.

All this and the Raps have more rings

The difference between Pablo’s podcast and the NBA is that the league needs more than “it looks bad” or “it’s fishy” to punish an owner or a player… if the league wants the punishment to be upheld by an arbitrator.

The question is whether the super-expensive law firm has uncovered a real paper trail (or electronic documents, or whatever) proving a direct trail from money paid by Clippers’ ownership going through a Clippers’ sponsor to Kawhi. Evidence that would allow an arbitrator to uphold punishment imposed by the league is what we need to see now.

so based on the emails presented in the pod, the daktronics part of this issue is not a no work sponsorship deal its just Kawhi and Unc couldn’t get ahold of or didn’t want to do it?

Kawhi lives rent free in Pablo’s head