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Somebody still wants him to Lakers?

 

what a waste of talent - closest thing to Lebron in terms of physical ability the league has seen and it's just going to fade away

 

Luka save some for the Lakers????

Luka going nuclear in Euro league. Today.

 

yeah, it's crazy. i do think the back injury probably affected him more than people talk about, but the psychological issues were still the main culprit.

i really expected him to do well with the clippers last year, but them not having any interest in his return is kind of a big signal. i wonder if he'll go back to australia?

 

These NBA deals go on. Morey told Harden he would pay him. Just take mid level deals so they can sign other players.

then he got pissed when he f***ed him and didn’t pay him.

it’s all b*******. New York with Brunson there’s something called money on the back end.

What happened was the Clippers got caught.

Can anybody tell me how Magic got his first ownership stake in the Lakers?

I won’t b******* you. Kawaii was seeking all types of s***. This deal was going to be a big deal for him and Uncle Dennis. They wanted ownership stake.

Steve Ballmer is a nice guy. Steve Ballmer is a fun guy. What Steve Ballmer is isn’t stupid. He got that Intuit dome built.

He will not be forced to sell. The last owner forced to sell was a pretty mean guy Donald Sterling.

Ballmer saved the Clippers and league from a lot of Racial fallout.

Kawaii didn’t do any f***ing work. But from a legal standpoint. I can hire Taylor Swift to my Makeup line if she decides to not show up nor do the tweets videos. That’s her as a bad partner. Maybe I can sue her if in the contract it’s contingent on her getting paid to do said things. Usually these celebs have it written in their contract they get paid regardless. You can be a kawaii Leonard or you can be a Hailey Bieber and clear a billion for being involved in the company.

Kawaii to nobody’s surprise said I’m not doing any of this s***.

Ballmer can say I invested believed in the company and tried to save it. It was just a bad buisness move.

28 million shouldn’t mean s***. Whether it’s $2 or 28 million it’s the same thing. Rules don’t apply.


Gotta be careful. If Mcdonals is a team sponsor and I use my players to do Mcdonalds commercials in the arena. They aren’t doing that s*** for free.

or Hey come to the local rubys steakhouse I eat here.

so all that’s tricky. I’m not being naive. Kawaii knew the Clippers wanted him and he milked them dry.

that’s Ballmers fault for not putting his foot down.


28 million oh yeah trade that kid Shai for my boy Paul George and 6 first round draft picks.

 

Ben Simmons was ruined by one playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks when he wouldn’t shoot. Before that. He was fine. The guy was a tripple double. Played defense. And was great at LSU he even got a max contract. That was the culprit of it. Being comfortable with the money.

Then it really got in his heads fans telling him to shoot. This might be the first time social media has ruined a players career. Trolling. He got the yips.

 

that major back injury he suffered right before the 2020 shutdown was the beginning of the end for him. the mental thing that kicked in the next season in the playoffs was the nail in the coffin. he never recovered from either

 

if we're going to be fine with what ballmer did, just get rid of the salary cap. i'm fine with it, tbh. we're owned by one of the rich people now. but this is most certainly cheating, and it's most certainly at a level beyond where it's happening most places, i'm guessing.

again, if it's really like this with all teams, then the cap is a joke.

but if i'm the other owners, i'm interested in my cut of those luxury taxes. if leonard is getting an additional 7 million a year while the clips were in the second apron, that's a lot of cash in my pocket!

 

While we’re at it what about LeBron’s involvement in Klutch? We all know he has sway with his management company. That’s a clear misalignment of interests. But no one has really said / done anything about it?

The way they’ll play it off is they’ll say that the clippers, Balmer and Kawhi were all frauded by this company and lay blame at the sinking ship.

 

I just don’t believe the NBA has the appetite to go after Balmer. He’s good for the NBA, deep pockets that means he’s willing to pay taxes so the smaller markets get more cash flow, built a high tech arena, bought the clippers at a huge valuation that pushed up the worth of the league.

At worst they’ll find him, take a few firsts and cut Kawhi’s contract. But I think that’s not super likely. More likely this blows over with a slap on the wrist.

 

yeah, i can't see any punishment going ballmer's way aside from a suspension

 

This

 

I stated the Lebron Klutch stuff.

it’s Cap can’t let the players get away with it but not let the owners.

You wanna talk Rich Paul. He started out selling Tshirts Throwback Jerseys. Met LeBron mooched on LeBron.

No College degree. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But you have to go to Law school to be a certified lawyer which leads to being an agent. They were lawyers before.

Lebron had Aaron Goodwin do his Nike deal which got him his first bag. A agent not Rich Paul.

Lebron Maverick and Randy start LMR which is a marketing company. All good. Wear our clothes. Well market your brand. Introduce you to powerful people.

one of these guys were Maurice Clarett Johnny Manziel.

then Klutch is created. Where its blatant Client agent representation. They hire agents to do the Contracts.

Rich Paul isn’t doing the contracts. Which led to a lawsuit and Rich Paul being sued because Agents weren’t compensated. For negotiating contracts that exceeded 100 million dollars.

Rich is the face. But LeBron financed Klutch and owns a stake.


That is a blatant player conflict of interest against owner.

if yall really want to take it there we can take it there.

this conflict of interest might have led to costing us a championship when Jeanie Buss cheap a** said either Caruso or THT.

THT being the Klutch client got paid essentially Lebron getting a piece of that.

which might have cost us a championship and letting Caruso walk leading to a trade of Russell Westbrook.

so if we’re coming for Owners best believe those Owners will start coming for those players.

 

You can’t say that active owners and active players can’t participate in companies together. Makes no sense.

This was a bad company went under. Fraud. But Ballmer put 50 million in it to save it.

He can say I was supporting my player. Cause Kawaiis LLC was tied to it. Maybe he didn’t want his players head f***ed up. If that company became successful and Ballmer made 200 million we would just call it a successful business move.

Kobe got James Harden involved in Body Armour. I think Harden put like a million in it or something and trippled his investment.

who’s to say Kobe didn’t ask Jeanie to invest??? If Jeanie doesn’t invest that’s just her fault for missing a great investment.

 

yeah, sorry, absolutely not on board with what's being stated the past few posts.

lebron's involvement with klutch isn't the same, imo, as players connected via agencies has been a thing and it operates across the league in the open. the cba doesn't have language connected to its policing.

the cba does have language that is supposed to limit cap circumvention (again, klutch isn't circumventing the cap).

i can agree that ballmer won't get punished, but the tone of these posts is that it's ok to do what he did. it's not. it's b*******. and the league deserves the escalation that will ensue, which i hope benefits the lakers.

which of course would actually result in enforcement of existing rules, lol.

 

Abeer!!!! I’m calling you out. I agree with everything you said. Spot on.

All I’m saying is the league has been hard on us with Basketball reasons.

the Clippers should have a steep penalty.

I’m thinking 10 million dollar fine and loss of 2 first round draft picks.


And probably a 20 game suspension for Steve Ballmer.


They got caught. Teams do this and will continue to do this.

 

So what happens if Peter Guber finances a Movie that Stephen Curry wants to produce??? Is that fair?

or can Joe Lacob invest 20 million dollars in Ayesha Curry’s food empire?

 

Meh..nothing is going to happen to the Hyena, or Ballmer. It's the times we live in today, money rules, if you have enough of it, you can get away with damn near anything. Ballmer is probably saying...f*** them draft picks right now. IF Silver does anything about this situation.

 

If the penalty doesn’t at least equal what the Wolves were dealt, it will be Alienboy going easy on Ballmer and be a really bad look.
The ratings are already down.
I think a lot more will tune out if this type of garbage is encouraged.
I know I’ll watch less games if the punishment doesn’t fit the crime.