Pablo Torre: Kawhi Leonard signed secret endorsement deal funded by Steve Ballmer. UPDATE: Ballmer made donations to Aspiration before Feds came.

[Rekkapryde]

Pablo keeps this up he might get murked.

They can’t stop da gawd!!!

 

[mson]

If Stern goes lenient on this, he's might as well resign. This is a competitive balance & integrity issue. He has to come down hard for the best interest of the sport, period.

I think we should be all be worried if he were to get involved in this. We don't need any goddamn zombies running around.

 

[Rekkapryde]

uncle Dennis fukking up

Sloppy as fukk

 

[Hey_zeus]

If Stern goes lenient on this, he's might as well resign. This is a competitive balance & integrity issue. He has to come down hard for the best interest of the sport, period.

I bet you $1000 Stern don't do shyt about this

 

[David_TheMan]

It does need to be built up because the players put their faith in their union rep doing the right thing and they completely failed them.

the players elect the union reps.
They literally don't fukking care they put no thought into anything.

 

[David_TheMan]

So you have no evidence of strength just your hopeful wish...in labor issues public issues and in fighting within a group makes the union weak which is pablo did by making it public .

Nfl had collusion and nothing happened thus far but only showed the players are fools

They literally got rid of a person who made side deals with the fukking nfl ownership.
That is improving their strength alone taking him out of leadership position.
You literally seem like a stupid individual, who would claim that removing a double agent from leadership weakens an organization. SMH

 

[Sghost597]

This is the stuff I want to see play out, because billionaire typically don't ever face the consequences.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Goodell, Silver, Manfred and Bettman about to form Voltron to stop pablo

David Stern would have had Pablo six feet under already.

 

[Doctor Doom]

Black Escalades already on the way, Pablo

 

[Cladyclad]

Kawhi:its just money. You not gonna tell me getting money is bad

 

[aceboon]

hilarious that with every new Pablo story it's the same nikkas running in the threads:
"why is this a story"
"this won't amount to anything"
"who cares"

why do you nikkas hate journalism, how is this hurting you?

 

[VegetasHairline]

With regard to forming a shell company to pay a player..

No this doesn't have federal implications at all.
It would only have federal implications if it wasn't filing taxes.
Shell companies are entirely legal.

This would only have NBA issues and it would be around bypassing the cap, which wouldn't be a legal issue but an NBA administrative issue.

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Broncos did something like this to bypass the cap in the NFL. That is how they were able to keep the team together for their 90s super bowl run.

Breh and Breh Associates!

 

[SchoolboyC]

I can appreciate this brand of journalism over trade gossip

If true just based on the Joe Smith precedent I would imagine there’s significant penalties. It’s one of those things that we all know happens but you’re never supposed to be sloppy enough to get caught

 

[Optimus Prime]

Adam Silver: "We are going to have to void Kawhi's contract"
Clippers:

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Yeah, Im sure he’s the only athlete getting under the table money….….

Didn't an article come out years back about all the shady shyt the warriors did to get KD like stock in start ups and stuff ?