I also appreciate how you have handled your situation publicly without publicly denigrating Annemarie while denying her claims and allegations.
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Jonathan Eng
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Jonathan Eng
@jon_eng4
LA Clipper and general basketball fan, anime fan, gym rat #ClipperNation
Katılım Haziran 2009
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@marcelluswiley Been a fan of yours in the media space since the Max & Marcellus days + been following your content & the story w/ your situation. You've been an honest broker & seeing your kids invade your shows is always cute. Wishing you the best w/ your situation.
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@TrueHoop Ever since Pablo started his series of Aspiration podcasts, my conclusion been Uncle Dennis went rogue by leveraging his position w/ a desperate Joe Sanberg as being the lynchpin to Ballmer for funding, especially as JS was desperate to keep the fraud going & needed $
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@TrueHoop That presumes that Ballmer and the Clippers are guilty of what is alleged. As a Clipper fan, it pains me to say that I do want the league to be tough on them. But what happens if they are found innocent? PT put the Clippers in a no-win situation in the court of public opinion
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@KarlRholoff @APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes Otherwise, the league opens itself up for a lawsuit as Adam Silver said that there has to be actual impropriety and intent for punishment to be levied, not just merely the the impression of impropriety. Also, PT milking 13 parts or however many is purely clout chasing here
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@KarlRholoff @APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes You would be right if the circumstantial evidence lined up with everything that PT alleges. The problem is, that it doesn't. There are holes in what PT alleges,especially the "no-show" deal amongst other things. The fact pattern has to be ironclad with the circumstantial evidence
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The Kawhi Leonard-Aspiration investigation has, up to this point, NOT uncovered a “smoking gun,” per @ChrisBHaynes.
“If there was something that was really going to stick it would’ve came already.”
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@KarlRholoff @APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes There are things that will be explained away once the league puts out the report. It has to be fully transparent with it. With that being said, what you are proposing is a slippery slope that other owners privately will not be happy with.
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@APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes Chris Hayes needs to read the CBA. All the NBA has to prove is that there were contracts signed that cannot be rationally explained. Once they do that, the Clippers/Kawhi have to offer a rational explanation or the NBA can sanction.
The no show contract IS the smoking gun.
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@johnstodder @ApacSmack @APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes Two questions are why would Ballmer be incentivized to pay more money to Kawhi after he tore his ACL in 2021 w/o any hiarantee that he would return to being a great player, and what benefit to the team and organzition would doing that at that time get? PT refuses to answer this
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@johnstodder @ApacSmack @APH00PS @ChrisBHaynes There was a ton of circumstantial evidence, for sure. The problem PT had was he made leaps in gaps of that circumstantial evidence and built his conclusion around him "filling" in those gaps. There are still a few huge questions that he has either ignored or refused to answer.
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@johnstodder @APH00PS @LemAndreza @ChrisBHaynes I get there is a percentage cap that owners can invest up to in a company that becomes a sponsor, but completely do away with it to remove any perception of impropriety. Any existing ownership investments in sponsor companies get divested from.
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@johnstodder @APH00PS @LemAndreza @ChrisBHaynes I think the change will be something along the lines of more scrutiny over sponsorship deals between sponsors and players. There should also be a clause that says owners cannot of teams cannot enter team sponsorships deals with companies they personally invested in.
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@knowonespecifik @Otheryanmurphy If you think this will be the worst and least fun season, you weren't around when the team was winning 19 games and going nowhere. Everyone knows this team isn't contending for anything next season so it will be fun to root for the young guys to grow and develop.
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@Otheryanmurphy In my honest opinion, I think we win 30 games tops. I’m prepared for the worst and unfun clippers season on my life ngl. If we make it to 11th seed in the west I’d be surprised
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The clippers started 6-21 and you think they are gonna be WORSE this year?! LOL
ClipsLand@ClipsLand
Man I don’t even wanna think about how bad the Clippers are gonna be this year
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@Gene_is Kawhi's processing of double teams has been his one weakness. He just doesn't have the court vision to process and make the reads fast enough.
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Go ask Kawhi how easy it is to pass out of a double!
Nate Jones@JonesOnTheNBA
I’m seeing so many people be critical of Wagler after his first game when it’s obvious they didn’t watch and only saw the stats. Kings threw two at Wagler a lot in that first game and he just made the right pass. Getting two thrown at you and being able to make a pass out of it is a good thing in NBA games. Teammates have to be able to take advantage of it. cc: @LawMurrayTheNU
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@FilsEnjoyer @bigdogpistons1 @JonesOnTheNBA Wagler will be unlocked when he plays with better players around him
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@bigdogpistons1 @JonesOnTheNBA If they get the ball out of his hands like that every play in the NBA, it’s a 4 on 3 advantage and the clippers will score every time
Hence it won’t happen every possession in the nba like it did on Thursday
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I’m seeing so many people be critical of Wagler after his first game when it’s obvious they didn’t watch and only saw the stats. Kings threw two at Wagler a lot in that first game and he just made the right pass. Getting two thrown at you and being able to make a pass out of it is a good thing in NBA games. Teammates have to be able to take advantage of it. cc: @LawMurrayTheNU
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@khrisody There are also another two major questions nobody has an answer to: Why would Ballmer willingly pay more money to Kawhi after he tore his ACL and what benefit would there be with no guarantee that he would return to being as good as he was last season?
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The whistleblowers don't even gotta be lying to be wrong.
"Cap circumvention" ain't some everyday phrase that's real NBA insider lingo. My question has always been simple: who the hell told the whistleblowers it was cap circumvention?
Did someone with firsthand knowledge tell them that? Did they connect the dots themselves? Or did they hear somebody else's theory and run with it?
If nobody can answer where that label came from, that's a pretty damn big deal. The whole narrative hangs on that one assumption.
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You seem emotionally stable, lmao. Pablo hasn't actually presented facts proving his accusations. There's a reason he still has to say "allegedly" when he talks about it. And just because a reporter or journalist has won awards doesn't mean I have to treat his theories and assumptions as gospel. Evidence matters more than credentials.
Misappropriation of funds covers a lot of ground lol. The reason it applies here is simple: if Ballmer made the deposit with the intention that it be used to circumvent the salary cap, then it wasn't really an investment. But if Sanberg agreed to use the money for one purpose and instead diverted it somewhere else, that's misappropriation of funds. Those are two different scenarios, and the distinction matters.
BleedGreenSports@stacula215
You accused me of making stuff up initially, and writing fan fiction, then after linking the actual person who uncovered the story and WON A FUCKING PULITZER FOR HIS REPORTING, you tell me that I should have my own organic opinion. First, I need facts because that’s what matters, then facts don’t matter and I should have my own opinion. If you wasted 6 months doing anything related to Aspiration, then you are a fucking idiot. Because you have no idea wtf you are talking about, while Pablo won a Pulitzer for it. Misappropriation of funds. It’s fucking. Ballmer’s own personal money that was defrauded. Good job wasting 6 months of your life. Was it worth it?
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@hallsrh @JakeLFischer Someone getting a Pullitzer or any type of award does not supersede factual evidence... Not sure if you understand that
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@JakeLFischer Pablo got a Pulitzer for his receipts. NBA can't ignore this.
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David Kelly also said he does not think “there’s a there there,” with Kawhi Leonard, stating the union agrees with the Clippers that they expect the investigation won’t find any impropriety from Leonard’s endorsement deal with Aspiration functioning as salary cap circumvention.
Jake Fischer@JakeLFischer
New NBPA executive director David Kelly says “it should not take this long,” in regards to the NBA’s investigation into Kawhi Leonard, Los Angeles and Aspiration.
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@MilitantMind4 @AFGBeast925 @JakeLFischer This is the one question that Chablo and everyone who believes the Clippers are guilty absolutely refuses to answer or at least come up with an answer for.
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@AFGBeast925 @JakeLFischer Question: Does it make sense for Ballmer to circumvent for a player at that time who had just sustained an ACL injury, an has a chronic bad knee? Does it make sense for Ballmer to do it because "he likes Kawhi and wants to get him more money" because he's....nice?
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@JacksonLloyd This CBA is bearing the fruit the owners envisioned now. Further artificially suppress the value of max level worthy guys and then suppress the value of the middle class. Too many of the pre-CBA deals causing the money to dry up for guys & forcing them on multiple TO/NG yr deals
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Suits smiling at the possibility of using Victor Wembanyama below a rookie max as a comp 😞😞😞
Jake Fischer@JakeLFischer
There has been word this morning in Las Vegas that Victor Wembanyama is considering signing less than his maximum rookie scale extension to provide San Antonio greater financial flexibility. More NBA from @TheSteinLine here: tinyurl.com/d8a6n7u9
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