NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
Should obv do LAC at least 5 FRP. Unfortunately those belong to OKC, but such is life. Theyre already rich enough, ring having ****s
Kawhi is scummy, he marched into Raptors office demanding his own plane and max money and all this stuff and the Owner, rightfully so, told him to GFY.😃
Kawhi is scummy, he marched into Raptors office demanding his own plane and max money and all this stuff and the Owner, rightfully so, told him to GFY.😃
Yeah Kawhi is a piece of ****. Outside of Rodman, he’s one of the very few players who clashed with Popovich.
**** him.
ok so I am only 9777 posts late, but erm.. subbed,. something to do.
NuBuAu... GoGoDo Shorty. I'm watch one player outdunk everyone.
Prop bets on NBA Jam, via the medium of Sega mega drive, me versus everyone in thread? any... i'ma sayit... proposals?
From. Reddit
But multiple sources with knowledge of Toronto’s contract negotiations with Leonard in 2019 told the Star that Leonard’s uncle and representative, Dennis Robertson, made demands that line up almost perfectly with what Leonard reportedly got from Aspiration. According to those sources, who were granted anonymity in order to speak freely about the negotiations, Robertson’s list was long, and absurd. It included a trade for George, which featured an exorbitant price tag. It included a slice of ownership of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which Robertson was told was impossible.
But two details stand out, in retrospect. One, Robertson asked for ownership stakes in outside companies: not just the Leafs, which he seemed to believe was separate, but with other companies with whom MLSE had a relationship. And two, the Raptors were told they needed to match at least $10 million per year in extra sponsorship income. Teams are allowed to introduce players to team sponsors; teams cannot negotiate deals, and MLSE was aware of that fact.
But it didn’t end there. As one source put it, when told about all the corporate sponsors in Toronto who would be happy to have Leonard as a pitchman, his camp said, “We don’t want to do anything.” Raptors representatives said any sponsor would want to shoot ads or arrange appearances; Robertson reiterated Leonard didn’t want to do anything for the money.
That’s when the Raptors realized Leonard wasn’t asking to be introduced to Toronto’s lucrative corporate community; they were being asked to arrange no-show jobs, and arrange no-investment investments. MLSE rejected both proposals.
Like wtf.
Needs to be a STERN PUNISHMENT
GET IT
David Stern?
Paulie in a similar Sopranos like moment would say "hear did you hear what I said about Stern?
Kawhi just asking for under the table deals every where he went and somehow this didn't leak until now is kinda crazy
Kawhi just asking for under the table deals every where he went and somehow this didn't leak until now is kinda crazy
It was heavily leaked when it happened. Now the details are being more exposed.
makes me think that this kind of thing happens a lot, and that the league is probably gonna bury their heads in the sand rather than doing any digging
Kawhi should throw Uncle Dennis under the bus if he catches enough heat. Make him do some hard time in the pen.
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Kawhi should throw Uncle Dennis under the bus if he catches enough heat. Make him do some hard time in the pen.
Uncle Dennis is just the Shohei’s interpreter of this situation.
This. It was known, but not to what extent.
makes me think that this kind of thing happens a lot, and that the league is probably gonna bury their heads in the sand rather than doing any digging
Hooking guys up with sponsors, investment guys, comping them a car - that definitely happens all the time.
This amount of money, in this way - very doubtful that happens. No other owner besides Ballmer is chill with just blowing 50Mill like it’s nothing. He’s like 10 to 100x richer than the rest of them, and appears to be one of the only owners who doesn’t care about keeping costs down.
The other owners are probably pissed off and Silver works for them. It’s not like they need to dig super hard. There’s obviously not going to be a Ballmer text signing off on this. But just get the distorted voice dude from the podcast on the record and that’s enough to hammer them. You could even phrase it like a “lack of institutional control” kind of thing - you should have known this was happening, that it looks really bad, and shut it down.
Kawhi should throw Uncle Dennis under the bus if he catches enough heat. Make him do some hard time in the pen.
If you believe the Spurs and Clippers fan boards (both of which I happen to follow), Uncle Dennis owns the bus, drives it, and takes it to get detailed every Sunday.
Dude is a notorious scum bag. Although I don’t think any of this is “illegal” in the crime sense.
I just got my Raptors hoodies and wasn't sure if any Raptors fans are here to post about the sale. No Kawhi in obtaining these hoodies.:p
Kawhi contract voided, Ballmer fined 100M and suspended one year, Clips lose next three first rounders they control.
The small market owners have to be going berserk behind the scenes, and yes, Ballmer’s legal team should be fired and disbarred. Demi in AFGM bad.
Minority owner Dennis WONG put 2 mill into the company - after it began falling apart and was under investigation - one week before Kawhi is due a payment. Source says company had no money to pay Kawhi if not for that.
Is WONG the real mastermind?!?!?
I don't get why Raptors fans care Kawhi left. He got you a championship, and he has been hurt and a lesser player since departing. Highly unlikely they were winning again with him.
Can't wait to see the punishments.
“Pablo Torre explained how Kawhi was paid his endorsement from Aspiration late in 3Q22. The payment was supposed to arrive in October/Nov and wasn't paid until December 15th, after a Clippers owner invested $2MM to pay Kawhi $1.75MM. Going into the game logs for the 2022 season, you can see that Kawhi played 7 of 27 games before that December week (26%). During and after that week, when payment was finally arranged, Kawhi played in 45 of the remaining 55 games of the season (82%). I would theorize that his playing for the Clippers may have been tied into his endorsement deal, or else his injury healed exactly at the same time.”
“Pablo Torre explained how Kawhi was paid his endorsement from Aspiration late in 3Q22. The payment was supposed to arrive in October/Nov and wasn't paid until December 15th, after a Clippers owner invested $2MM to pay Kawhi $1.75MM. Going into the game logs for the 2022 season, you can see that Kawhi played 7 of 27 games before that December week (26%). During and after that w
Smoking gun right there.
Silver should suspend Kawhi half the season.
