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From The Athletic: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6624269/2025/09/12/clippers-steve-ballmer-kawhi-leonard-aspiration-investment-sponsorship/ Ballmer is either dumb as **** or crooked as **** (maybe both?). Love how this story just keeps getting more and more obvious.

One of the podcasts that I was listening to last week said that as part of his contract getting voided there would also be a provision that he couldn't resign with the Clippers.

If it comes down to basically what we know now, I think the punishment is going to be what the other owners are pushing for. If there is an internal push for the NBA-equivalent of the SMU death sentence, that is what is going to happen. If the owners are more measured, it'll be closer to a slap...

In life I tend to not ascribe to malice what I could ascribe to incompetence, but if this is truly a case of incompetence with regards to Ballmer, I need to think of some business ideas to dupe some idiot billionaires. In fact, I would say that this story should have a bigger societal impact in...

Seems like roughly where everybody thought it would end up since July. I think it is probably a better deal for Giddey than the Bulls but if I were a Bulls fan, I would be ecstatic that they didn't give him a massive overpay.

@Juxtatarot - if you are on the side of Ballmer, are you agreeing with Cuban that it was potentially worth $48m to Aspiration to keep Kawhi on the Lakers to maximize their sponsorship investment? If not, what could possibly be the reason for them to pay him that much for a no-show job?

That article presents almost nothing to the conversation. The conclusion from the article seems to be that they paid him more than any other team could have so why would they need to pay him more? My retort would be that 1. California has the highest income tax in the country so if Leonard was...

I plan on giving it a listen tomorrow while I’m working around the house. It’s possible my skepticism of billionaires (and the ruling class, generally) is tainting my ability to look at this rationally, but I fail to see any sort of logic to follow that brings me any other place than the...

Which could be an argument if: 1. Ballmer didn't give them the $50m 2. They actually had Kawhi do anything for them. 3. Announced Kawhi as spokesperson. 4. Their board had any involvement in the contract with Kawhi. 5. They didn't, in theory, pay Kawhi $12m/yr vs the $13m/yr they paid the...

Which of course would be how it would work. There wouldn't be enough time to negotiate and review a contract in the short amount of time before he signed his NBA contract.

The only possible explanation for that is that the owner(s) were big time jersey chasers that wanted to get close with NBA athletes. But that breaks down pretty quickly when you consider what a strange dude and probably lame hang Kawhi would be. There are significantly cooler athletes in LA to...

I, for one, would never suspect the former CEO of Microsoft worth $150b that was in charge (technically) during their relatively historic antitrust lawsuit in the early 00s to do anything untoward in his business dealings. Just doesn't seem like something a person like him would or could ever...

He's a career 43% shooter from 10-16 and 35% from 16-3P. For comparison, noted mid-range maestro Anthony Davis is at 42% and 38%, respectively.

I'm happy for Denver Nuggets legend, Tim Legler.

The first name that came to mind for me is SGA - takes over half of his shots outside of the restricted zone and inside of three. He's more okay from three than either good or bad, so maybe that disqualifies him from this discussion. Morant and Fox are kind of in that prototype as well. There...