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Post#1281 » by pepe1991 » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:02 am

Listening to new podcast and all the evidence. This is open and closed case. There is nothing really to be said to defend Ballmer ( like there was any to being with ).

September 2022, Aspiration is already firing stuff, they don't have money to even pay salaries of own workers, they can't pay their "biggest marketing star" -that nobody knows has contract for them. Uncle calls every day asking about his money, and out of thin air, "new investor" for "no reason", guy named Dennis Wong wires them $1,99M.

And now, again, bombshell, who is Dennis Wong? So, Ballmer arranged ownership with Clippers where he holds 99%. And his buddy, who is almost every game with him in court owns the 1%. Can you guess what's his buddy's name ? :lol:
He is also vice president of Clippers.

Now to sum it up: vice president of Clippers, with no prior connection to Aspiration, 9 days before it's time to pay Kawhi's annual $1,75M from Aspiration to Kawhi, is "investing" in Aspiration $2M, in moment Aspiration does not have liquid assets to actually pay Kawhi- his $1,75M .
And once again, smoking gun is fact that nobody else got paid by Aspiration because they literally were already broke. Nobody but Kawhi.
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Post#1282 » by JustLucky » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:02 am

oh dennis wong signed a piece of paper saying the company was out of money when he sent the money as well
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Post#1283 » by The Master » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:02 am

Yeah, it was a matter of time that new evidence and facts will show up. There will be more personal connections, additional payments, meetings, probably personal communication as well - and to be honest, based on the few articles early on, it was already undefendable.

Clippers are beyond being cooked.
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Post#1284 » by Dr Aki » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:03 am

Only way this gets bigger is if Pablo Torre is suicided
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Post#1285 » by Zeno » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:11 am

I really am curious how Balmer got Kawhi his ‘marketing money’ pre-aspiration, in 2019, because there is a near zero chance they didn’t pay him then too. That company just didn’t go bankrupt.
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Post#1286 » by pepe1991 » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:11 am

The Master wrote:Yeah, it was a matter of time that new evidence and facts will show up. There will be more personal connections, additional payments, meetings, probably personal communication as well - and to be honest, based on the few articles early on, it was already undefendable.

Clippers are beyond being cooked.


I'm very sure other company wired Kawhi money for picking LAC ove LAL & Raptors in 2019. But unlike Aspiration, that company didn't burn to a ground in such short time frame to turn all the documents publicly available.

This also opens a flood gates of integrity of nba.
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Post#1287 » by firedavidkahn » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:16 am

This is hilarious.

Pablo only releases a little bit of info, then Ballmer responds, then Pablo releases even more damming info.

Read on Twitter


Pablo is handling this masterfully. :lol:
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Post#1288 » by JustLucky » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:18 am

Zeno wrote:I really am curious how Balmer got Kawhi his ‘marketing money’ pre-aspiration, in 2019, because there is a near zero chance they didn’t pay him then too. That company just didn’t go bankrupt.


ohhhh we might acually get those pics from the clippers . everyone was flaming me for bringing it up
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Post#1289 » by Mavrelous » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:19 am

Oh yeah, Clippers are cooked...
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Post#1290 » by The Master » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:19 am

Zeno wrote:I really am curious how Balmer got Kawhi his ‘marketing money’ pre-aspiration, in 2019, because there is a near zero chance they didn’t pay him then too. That company just didn’t go bankrupt.

pepe1991 wrote:I'm very sure other company wired Kawhi money for picking LAC ove LAL & Raptors in 2019. But unlike Aspiration, that company didn't burn to a ground in such short time frame to turn all the documents publicly available.

This also opens a flood gates of integrity of nba.

Exactly, regardless of the Clippers - the most striking thing is that we could anticipate that shady stuff in regard to additional payments happen, especially in relations with the biggest stars, and in the biggest markets.

What is truly insane is that it wasn't any third-party payment or subtle and creative financial scheme - Clippers' owner literally paid direct money without covering up any tracks and we found out only because this company bankrupted. Now, we found out that Clippers' co-owner did the same. No disrespect to Pablo Torre, but it's not like he had to find any deep connections between Saudi Arabian invesotr and Dennis Wong, it was literally him paying directly. :lol:

If such blatant things went unnoticed, it's really hard to believe in the league's integrity. And I'm not talking about conspiracy theories about draft or whatever, this is an obvious assumption that the league has had no control over such processes.

Now, imagine what happened in 2019...
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Post#1291 » by firedavidkahn » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:48 am

firedavidkahn wrote:This is hilarious.

Pablo only releases a little bit of info, then Ballmer responds, then Pablo releases even more damming info.

Read on Twitter


Pablo is handling this masterfully. :lol:

At this point I wouldn't really be shocked if Pablo had ballmer on tape confessing to the entire thing.

Pablo keeps bringing receipts after receipts only to release more after he sees how the Clippers and ballmer respond:lol:
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Post#1292 » by Mr Peanut » Thu Sep 11, 2025 11:58 am

Wow the new information is pretty damning. Not sure how Ballmer/Clippers brass can spin that one.

If Ballmer does gets away with only a slap on the wrist now the main reason has to be that the other owners have similar skeletons they don't want getting out.
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Post#1293 » by The Master » Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:13 pm

firedavidkahn wrote:At this point I wouldn't really be shocked if Pablo had ballmer on tape confessing to the entire thing.

Pablo keeps bringing receipts after receipts only to release more after he sees how the Clippers and ballmer respond:lol:

Torre said that he has 3,000 pages of documents and 7 witnesses from inside of the company on the record confirming his story and coverage, so I can imagine that it's not necessarily purposeful and he just keeps digging because the amount of information to analyze is definitely huge.

And the Clippers are cooked because it was so amateurish on their part, we'll just get more and more trails and evidences with time. What do you do at this point if you're Ballmer? Anything you say can be rebutted in a day.
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Post#1294 » by MN7725 » Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:18 pm

its going to come out that Kawhi missed games because of non-payment
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Post#1295 » by JShuttlesworth » Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:36 pm

Torre is playing chess here
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Post#1296 » by Zeno » Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:43 pm

JustLucky wrote:
Zeno wrote:I really am curious how Balmer got Kawhi his ‘marketing money’ pre-aspiration, in 2019, because there is a near zero chance they didn’t pay him then too. That company just didn’t go bankrupt.


ohhhh we might acually get those pics from the clippers . everyone was flaming me for bringing it up

Nah, the nba has never given picks to the "wronged party" in the case of violations to the CBA(besides the fact he was a free agent anyway so the "wronged party" is debatable. I don't see that changing.
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Post#1297 » by God Squad » Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:04 pm

Zeno wrote:
JustLucky wrote:
Zeno wrote:I really am curious how Balmer got Kawhi his ‘marketing money’ pre-aspiration, in 2019, because there is a near zero chance they didn’t pay him then too. That company just didn’t go bankrupt.


ohhhh we might acually get those pics from the clippers . everyone was flaming me for bringing it up

Nah, the nba has never given picks to the "wronged party" in the case of violations to the CBA(besides the fact he was a free agent anyway so the "wronged party" is debatable. I don't see that changing.

Agreed. IF they decide to take picks, they'll likely be forfeited (no one gets them).
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Post#1298 » by Calvin Klein » Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:08 pm

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Post#1299 » by Zeno » Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:15 pm

Another question is how much Balmer paid to get numerous media to suggest the burden of proof should be a smoking gun over the last week all while knowing there was in fact a potential smoking gun out there. And how much is Balmer willing to pay the other 29 owners in ‘under the table’ fines for them to take the position publicly that there really isn’t enough evidence here. Would he pay out 7 million per team to avoid the embarrassment of getting suspended and losing picks?
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Post#1300 » by ReasonablySober » Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:19 pm

The Clippers are very bad at doing (CBA) crime.

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