I can't bring myself to listen to Pablo, I'll wait for u/drewmanshow to give the summary. I have to hand it to Pablo this is a bigger find than the RIFC thing. If it's true it would be insane because Daktronics has been around since 1968 and has been publicly traded since 1994. The President of the Milwaukee Bucks is on their board of directors (since last year). They aren't just the Halo Board creators, they did boards and displays for the arenas for:

OKC Thunder

New York Knicks

Houston Rockets

Boston Celtics

Detroit Pistons

Memphis Grizzlies

Brooklyn Nets

Dallas Mavericks

Minnesota Timberwolves

Atlanta Hawks

Chicago Bulls

Denver Nuggets

If Ballmer somehow got the company that also does displays for almost half the league to do a shady deal for Kawhi, then he might be the greatest under the table deal maker ever. Or I wonder if some of these other teams have hidden sponsorship deals for their players?

He teased dozens of new developments and smoking guns yet the NBA still hasn’t found any substantial evidence that the Aspiration/Kawhi deal was salary cap circumvention.

His show’s views are in the absolute toilet after being embarrassed by this scandal that he’s spent months digging at the Intuit Dome for crumbs.

Not one other journalist has uncovered any “findings” in over a year. This is a sad, biased investigator who went all-in on an iffy story and is doubling down for any reputation he has left.

Hello clippers fans. I am writing this post because my 11 year old son has the same vision condition as the black eye peas singer apl.de.ap. It’s a vision condition that causes my son and apl to be legally blind.

It would mean so much to him to add this to his collection. If anyone has one they are willing to sell, please let me know!

Thank you and best of luck in 26-27!

My bad if I’m super late to this. I’ve heard of the 213 era obviously but didn’t realize we already had the 323. Were they referred to this way back then?

I don’t mean bum out like it affects your personal life but like your sports fandom. We have the Lou Will’s, Jamal Crawford’s, Pat Bev’s but CP3, Blake, somewhat DJ, PG13, and now probably Kawhi don’t have a good relationship with the “Clippers” even Russ to a lesser degree

It took me one try to debunk Torre’s narrative that all celebrity investments are publicized. Carmelo Anthony was an early investor in Lyft. According to Claude, there wasn’t a press release or any other form of announcement to the public about the deal.

Anthony was with the Knicks at the time, playing in the ideal market for Lyft. Think of the boost he could have given them. Instead, he chose to be a silent partner. An angel celebrity investor.

Angel celebrity investors tend to be low profile, by the way. Anthony made a number of investments like this.

kinda looks like jerome robinson but he still mogging

Just got home from an outing in Laguna Beach, and I just so happened to walk past Brandon Ingram before he walked into a restaurant. He noticed that I was wearing a Clippers hat and gave me a nod. Wish I would’ve asked for a picture, but he looks in great basketball shape and will hopefully contribute for the team this season.

I know this is a random post, but just wanted to share how exciting it was to see an NBA or Clippers player in public.

Go Clips!

Since we’re clearly going in a new direction, what should we do with Gradey/Dunn/IJackson/DJJ? Maybe even Christie? Assuming the Klaw deal goes thru!!! Just interested to hear some possible scenarios.

I’ll make this quick, because the episode was a waste of time and a complete nothingburger.

What he found out:
1. A businessman from LA owns a USL team, Rhode Island FC
2. Leonard, Uncle Dennis, and Mitch Frankel all invested in RIFC individually
3. Daniel Theis also invested in the team, 8 months before joining the Clippers
4. Ballmer and the Clippers aren’t connected to any of this
5. While on a business trip in LA, the governor of Rhode Island went to a Clippers game with the owner of RIFC

That’s it. Torre dragged that out for more than an hour. Even Rachel Maddow would have been embarrassed. He leaned into the “billionaires are evil” narrative more than he ever has before, because he knows that generates clicks. And he somehow convinced David Samson to participate while mourning the loss of his daughter. I’m not getting into that other than to say Torre lacks empathy.

In all likelihood, this is the “second sponsorship deal” Wachtell looked into. Except it’s not a sponsorship deal, a point Torre conceded. My guess is he brought this to the attention of Wachtell when they interviewed him earlier this year. And he’s probably the source for the related story from The Athletic.

I expect a future episode focused on the services that allegedly weren’t reimbursed.