Clippers be cheating

[David Hume]

I'm going with something else. Apathy. Just generally not caring. Kinda of where I'm at. As I get older and see more and more corruption and cheating I care less and less.
Jazz sucking for a long time doesn't help

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I had a good friend who sadly, passed away a few years ago. He was a retired US Air Force officer. I asked him which was the most competent, professional foreign Air Force he ever observed. It took him some time to decide, but he finally settled on the Chileans, calmly explaining their expertise. Then I asked him what was the least competent, unprofessional foreign Air Force he ever observed. “That’s easy” he replied. “The Saudis.” I asked why were they were so bad and he explained “The only qualification you need to be a pilot is to be a member of the Royal family.” He explained they were just wanna be playboys who had watched Top Gun but couldn’t even refuel their planes from an airborne refueling plane. The point being, that there is indeed a downside to nepotism, corruption, when it trumps merit and you are facing competitors who base decisions on merit. Long rant, maybe better directed at the Lakers drafting Bronny, but it does indicate that there is at least some upside to rooting out corruption.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

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This is part of the reason I think owners will shy away from digging too hard. To me this is stuff that happens more frequently than we might think. Using 150k to get a guy on a minimum that has 10+ choices maybe... day to day circumvention worse or better than the mega circumvention? This hurts the player's pockets if this stuff gets more regulated.

We shall see.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I'm going with something else. Apathy. Just generally not caring. Kinda of where I'm at. As I get older and see more and more corruption and cheating I care less and less.
Jazz sucking for a long time doesn't help

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Ive become so jaded and skeptical. I think all these MFers cheat in their own way and bend the rules.

 

[tksavis]

I had a legal fight with a billionaire over a housing project.

The shenanigans that went on were disgusting throughout the entire course of events.

He threatened to take my house along eith 14 grandmas who signed a petition for a referendum. The city threatened me with millions in damages. They had 50 top lawyers on their side and we had a pretty rag tag group of grassroots funded peeps.

If I hadn't have won that battle at the court level then we would have been on the street to the pleasure of a guy wanting to cram 100 people per acre while living with his wife and himself in a mansion on 6 acres.

500 million dollar project with GOBS of profits to be made make people force things to get their way. Money corrupts.

Billionaires blow.

Sheesh, I'd love to hear more about this story. Did you guys have any publicity or were there any news articles about it?

 

[infection]

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This is part of the reason I think owners will shy away from digging too hard. To me this is stuff that happens more frequently than we might think. Using 150k to get a guy on a minimum that has 10+ choices maybe... day to day circumvention worse or better than the mega circumvention? This hurts the player's pockets if this stuff gets more regulated.

We shall see.

The leak of this sounds like a "shut up if you know what's good for you" message.

 

[KqWIN]

I don't really buy that others are enraged because they are all complicit/guilty of doing similar things. It's like when team owners get mad about tampering. They will throw a fit when they lose out on it, but I think it's common knowledge that everyone does it anyways and nobody wants the league to investigate themselves.

Like if anyone is shocked that this was not already going on, I have beach front property in Idaho to sell to you.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

The leak of this sounds like a "shut up if you know what's good for you" message.

People cited Zach Lowe saying other owners are furious and this is not common as a reason to think NBA owners will get tough. Its just like politicians though. "Yeah we are mad and can't believe they did that... we never do that (even though they definitely do some stuff like that)" then vote against a bill that combats the thing they are advocating against.

They also have a perfect patsy in Uncle Dennis to pin this on. This guy is a rogue non agent and asked for wild things. Clips didn't know that the scam company and this guy would do something nefarious.

Only way they get really hurt is if a pissed off party has some hard evidence and comes forward. Press Uncle Dennis by canceling the Leonard contract and he may come forward type of thing.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I don't really buy that others are enraged because they are all complicit/guilty of doing similar things. It's like when team owners get mad about tampering. They will throw a fit when they lose out on it, but I think it's common knowledge that everyone does it anyways and nobody wants the league to investigate themselves.

Like if anyone is shocked that this was not already going on, I have beach front property in Idaho to sell to you.

Said something similar below. Of course these teams say they are pissed and they would never do stuff. Imagine a team rep being like "yeah this stuff happens a lot... we aren't happy about this but whatevs.".

 

[underdog]

I mean I hope so but Sterling and Sarver had so much other stuff going on that was bad and pretty well known... Ballmer is completely different from these two jokers.

We will see what happens here but maybe the other owners are truly willing to push the NBA and Silver to go hard here. Still so skeptical.

Yeah, I’m skeptical as well. Uncle Dennis is the funnest dude here. Wouldn’t surprise me if he demanded Ballmer to arrange a big endorsement deal for Kawhi, and then Ballmer said, OK, let me see what I can do. Then he gave 50 million to Aspiration and asked someone to tell them that this money had to go to Kawhi.

 

[infection]

People cited Zach Lowe saying other owners are furious and this is not common as a reason to think NBA owners will get tough. Its just like politicians though. "Yeah we are mad and can't believe they did that... we never do that (even though they definitely do some stuff like that)" then vote against a bill that combats the thing they are advocating against.

They also have a perfect patsy in Uncle Dennis to pin this on. This guy is a rogue non agent and asked for wild things. Clips didn't know that the scam company and this guy would do something nefarious.

Only way they get really hurt is if a pissed off party has some hard evidence and comes forward. Press Uncle Dennis by canceling the Leonard contract and he may come forward type of thing.

I think from the vantage point of now, many people may be dismissive of how easy it would be to pin this on Uncle Dennis. I'd say they'd be surprised if/when it happens, but I'm not sure they'd be surprised because if/when that happens they may be fairly accepting of the Uncle Dennis narrative.

 

[underdog]

Or could Ballmer just have called Aspiration and said, " I’ll invest 50 mil in your company if you make a 28 mil endorsement deal with Kawhi?" Whatever, Uncle Dennis probably has his fingers in this pie. It turns out he tried to make similar "no show" endorsement deal arrangements for Kawhi when he was with the Raptors.

 

[underdog]

Or could Ballmer just have called Aspiration and said, " I’ll invest 50 mil in your company if you make a 28 mil endorsement deal with Kawhi?" Whatever, Uncle Dennis probably has his fingers in this pie. It turns out he tried to make similar "no show" endorsement deal arrangements for Kawhi with the Raptors.

I don't think Ballmer would make such a call. I don't think he has left any hard evidence against him.