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8 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.09.03)”
So, um, Steve Ballmer arranged to circumvent the salary cap and pay Kawhi an extra $28 million for a no-show job: https://youtu.be/1OwzYk6OCFM?si=h93M_-BUuZQnfu_s
How badly will the league come down on the Clippers for this?
Hopefully just a minor slap on the wrist. Then we can sign Kevin Durant this summer to a vet min deal while MSG pays him $50M.
i saw that as well, and it’s some elite sleuthing from torre. if the evidence holds up — and it’s looking pretty damn salient at the moment — it screams draconian penalty. i can think of several arguments why this behavior, if true, is worse than the joe smith circumvention. and that was 5 firsts with 2 restored on appeal, a voided contract, and an owner/gm suspension. but i’m also a lot less confident that my judgment aligns with adam silver’s than i was in his early years.
I’ve only gotten through part of it so far but damn this is some Lester Freamon shit from Pablo Torre. Bravo.
Makes me happy that there are people out there doing this after we killed investigative journalism. Think of all the shit people are getting away with because no one’s paying for content like this any more.
It’s interesting because the NBA investigated the Clippers when Kawhi signed with them for precisely this type of stuff and they gave the all-clear. So if true Silver has egg on his face and tries to downplay it, or goes doubly ballistic because he was lied to.
Who cares about the mezz? We have a good team, and we have a chance to win a championship. That’s all i ever asked, so i’m (more than) happy.
If David Stern were still commissioner he would say this was uncovered already during their investigation and come up with an explanation for it that’s as conspicuous as “Tim Donaghy was the only one” and “I just wanted to play baseball for a couple years”.
Speaking of The Wire, Kawhi Leonard (who wears #2) naming the LLC he used to enable fraud (with a company named Aspire) “KL2 Aspire LLC” is like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
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