Bernman wrote:California Gold wrote:Bernman wrote:
You're naive to think it's commonplace for an owner to be so blatant as to give a player a 2nd salary thru an outside company, and when that level of rules violation is caught they should & will just do little about it. Then rules are meaningless; everyone knows it. Less should, & would watch.
It’s not naive to think this is commonplace, it’s the opposite actually. The system being setup the way it is for teams to “introduce” players to me is putting in a lot of faith that these connected owners aren’t going to have a way to exploit. Powerful rich people usually get their way because of the connections they have. We aren’t talking about circumventing the law here which is another story entirely.
If he does truly get a slap on the wrist it’ll be because this is more rampant than we think. Hell just from the rules alone it’ll be hard to prove wrongdoing. A simple way to avoid this type of stuff is to not mix teams and players on a the teams sponsors.
The typical wealthy person is going to be more savvy than to flagrantly dole out salaries in 2 different places. Rather they'd direct the player to their sponsor to get an endorsement, while giving the company better sponsorships deals in return. That's plausible deniability.
The difference here is the blatancy, if nothing else. And owners, who are competing, can rightfully come down on Ballmer to that. A lot of FO's are reportedly very mad about this, unlike Cuban, which is either cuz they're friends, or he's the exception doing it too.
Like I said, I think that truth with come out for sure on how many of the owners are truly that upset by this. If the majority are not, you can count on the fact that a chunk of them have done or do this currently. Also taking into account that Ballmer is generally well liked around owners circles based on reports as well which will help his case.
haven't seen you much, hows my brother from another mother Celtic fan? Ready for Lakers/Celtic showdown 
