Kawhi "no-show job" that paid $28M

[ATLTimekeeper]

**** that guy. I just want to see the clippers get hammered with penalties. There's no way they can just sweep this under the rug now.

Jewish owner, Jewish commissioner and predominantly Jewish owners in the rest of the league. Pretty sure will be a much lighter slap on the wrist. Even though there is precedent of Kawhi asking for it. Doesn’t mean it was done. You can spin the endorsement deals six ways to Sunday.

If this guy was a Chinese or Indian owner would probably be forced to sell the team. Just the way the world works.

Donald Sterling was forced to sell

So was Sarver, also jewish. This conspiracy theory can be flushed.

[dTox]

And there it is

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I mean, how is this not a smoking gun?

[WuTang_CMB]

And there it is

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I mean, how is this not a smoking gun?

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Pablo walking silver like a dog. He tried to be cute yesterday and pablo waited for the perfect time to drop this.

[HiJiNX]

**** that guy. I just want to see the clippers get hammered with penalties. There's no way they can just sweep this under the rug now.

Jewish owner, Jewish commissioner and predominantly Jewish owners in the rest of the league. Pretty sure will be a much lighter slap on the wrist. Even though there is precedent of Kawhi asking for it. Doesn’t mean it was done. You can spin the endorsement deals six ways to Sunday.

If this guy was a Chinese or Indian owner would probably be forced to sell the team. Just the way the world works.

Let’s not make these kinds of assumptions please.

[Mr Swagtastic]

I think Masai and MLSE could've lived with the PG trade however getting Westbrook in it would have killed the cap flexibility of this team and IMHO Westbrook just isn't a championship player for whatever reason he kills teams chances at one idk why. Kawhis camp demands were just greedy to be greedy. He was already going to eat anywhere in Toronto for free given a luxury condo or house but asking for stakes in MLSE especially The Laffs was off the table. IMHO Shohei Ohtani wasn't even going to get with Toronto neither did Vladdy with Toronto

Just curious to hear what the percentage they wanted? Even 2% of MLSE is like $260,000,000

[brownbobcat]

And there it is

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I mean, how is this not a smoking gun?

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Pablo walking silver like a dog. He tried to be cute yesterday and pablo waited for the perfect time to drop this.

Pablo had them the whole time and baited Ballmer

Master class, no notes

[DelAbbot]

Kawhi is a slimeball

[JB7]

I mean, how is this not a smoking gun?

100%

Pablo walking silver like a dog. He tried to be cute yesterday and pablo waited for the perfect time to drop this.

Pablo had them the whole time and baited Ballmer

Master class, no notes

I imagine Silver's response will show how spineless he is, and what the NBA has become, while Stern would never have allowed himself or the league to be embarrassed like this.

[DelAbbot]

Kawhi has not even been worth his official NBA salary since joining the Clippers - this under the table payment and all the catering and now legal liability make Kawhi completely unworthy of being on any team. I'm so happy he didn't stay and choke our team with his PG+RW and insane payment demands.

[Jerry Lucas]

Kawhi has not even been worth his official NBA salary since joining the Clippers - this under the table payment and all the catering and now legal liability make Kawhi completely unworthy of being on any team. I'm so happy he didn't stay and choke our team with his PG+RW and insane payment demands.

The sort of underdiscussed part is what the salary filler would have needed to be to match. The well known part was Siakam+FVV+4 unprotected FRPs, but Westbrook's 2019-20 salary was 38.5M and PG13's was 33M. The combined 2019-20 salaries of Siakam and FVV were only 11.7M in comparison. Significant additional salary filler (roughly 45.5M to be more specific) would have needed to be included on top of the 11.7M to salary match for that trade. So we're talking any 2 of Gasol/Ibaka/Lowry, or Lowry+Norm specifically if they wanted to use Norm's 10M. This is obviously easy to say in hindsight, but that trade would have destroyed the franchise lol.

[PushDaRock]

And there it is

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I mean, how is this not a smoking gun?

100%

Pablo walking silver like a dog. He tried to be cute yesterday and pablo waited for the perfect time to drop this.

Actually a brilliant play lol

[Kingsway_fan]

Kawhi is a slimeball

Yep... yet there are still some in Toronto who worship him, lol

[brownbobcat]

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Pablo walking silver like a dog. He tried to be cute yesterday and pablo waited for the perfect time to drop this.

Pablo had them the whole time and baited Ballmer

Master class, no notes

I imagine Silver's response will show how spineless he is, and what the NBA has become, while Stern would never have allowed himself or the league to be embarrassed like this.

To quote Stern himself: "I know where the bodies are buried, I put some of them there myself.".

[PushDaRock]

We can now confirm that we have our fall guy

[Fairview4Life]

Kawhi is a slimeball

Yep... yet there are still some in Toronto who worship him, lol

Some people liked watching the team they root for win a championship.

Other people worship a guy who jumped real high.

To each their own.

[PushDaRock]

Kawhi has not even been worth his official NBA salary since joining the Clippers - this under the table payment and all the catering and now legal liability make Kawhi completely unworthy of being on any team. I'm so happy he didn't stay and choke our team with his PG+RW and insane payment demands.

lol and yet many people were still pissed at Masai for not meeting his demands to keep him

[sidsid]

When we get the 2030 first rounder as compensation, the repeater tax rule that their 1st goes to the end of the draft must not apply (don't know if this is in the CBA or not)

[SharoneWright]

With Ballmer's unlimited wealth, there are unlimited ways he could get back at David Silver. You have to wonder if Silver feels threatened by the position he finds himself in. Not just the professional cost of punishing a top owner in the league, but the personal risk. Ballmer may just be 1 team's owner, but his overall power >> than Silver and maybe the NBA itself.

[YogurtProducer]

When we get the 2030 first rounder as compensation, the repeater tax rule that their 1st goes to the end of the draft must not apply (don't know if this is in the CBA or not)

It shouldn't go into effect if they dont own the first. If it does, that is idiotic.

[YogurtProducer]

I think Masai and MLSE could've lived with the PG trade however getting Westbrook in it would have killed the cap flexibility of this team and IMHO Westbrook just isn't a championship player for whatever reason he kills teams chances at one idk why. Kawhis camp demands were just greedy to be greedy. He was already going to eat anywhere in Toronto for free given a luxury condo or house but asking for stakes in MLSE especially The Laffs was off the table. IMHO Shohei Ohtani wasn't even going to get with Toronto neither did Vladdy with Toronto

Just curious to hear what the percentage they wanted? Even 2% of MLSE is like $260,000,000

There is no way you can give team ownership in negotiations lol. That has to be cap circumvention