Did Mark Cuban Just EXPOSE the Clippers’ Biggest Secret? SHOCKING NEW Findings!
In a shocking twist, Mark Cuban’s attempt to defend Steve Ballmer may have just handed Pablo Torre the biggest lead yet in the explosive Clippers-Kawhi Leonard investigation. 🤯
This is the full breakdown of how a seemingly harmless comment from Mark Cuban led Pablo’s team down a paper trail that uncovered crucial new evidence in the Clippers’ $118M Aspiration scandal.
Tom Haberstroh joins Yahoo Sports Daily to break down:
🔎 The Unintended Consequences: Why Mark Cuban’s defense of a rival owner accidentally exposed a key part of the Clippers’ financial dealings.
📨 The Unseen Evidence: The crucial new documents and claims that directly tie the Clippers’ top brass to the controversial endorsement.
‼️ A “Smoking Gun”? How this latest development changes everything for the NBA’s ongoing investigation and could lead to severe penalties.
The NBA is still investigating the Clippers, majority owner Steve Ballmer, and Leonard to determine if the league’s rules governing salaries were circumvented through Leonard’s business arrangement with Aspiration.
Catch up on the LATEST on Pablo Torre’s investigation into the Kawhi Leonard-Clippers/Aspiration Investigation:
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34 Comments
With this new evidence, what do you think the NBA's next move should be? Is Adam Silver forced to act now?
Yall have to be the dumbest people I've ever seen on social media…if anybody is money around like that there's going to be bank receipts…and that's the one very important thing nobody has shown..stop the bs already…😂
Hahaha. Cuban snitched on Balmer! 🤣🤣🤣
Cuban must be hoping the NBA can't punish Ballmer and then hoping Ballmer returns the favor for having his back this openly.
Pablo Torre is a turd
Cuban wants to buy the clippers
It seems that Mark Cuban is a low-key whistleblower… Lol
He’s dying on that hill as he has done the same thing. Time will tell in any event.
Guy in the middle looks like Carlos Boozer lol
The NBA is a clown show!
I feel like Cuban is defending Ballmer because they are both in the tech space, and Cuban NEEDS Ballmer, since even though they are both billionaires, Cuban is still a small fish compared to Ballmer
With an ally like Mark Cuban, Ballmer doesn’t need enemies.
Wherever that bar is set. Pablo cleared it twice. Drop the hammer 🔨
I could be completely wrong (and it would be great), but I don't think a lot is going to be done to Ballmer and the Clippers no matter what.
Cuban is carrying Ballmer's water because they are buddies but my guess would be that Cuban probably did the same thing as an owner. This can't be the only time this has happened. The NBA is straight up crooked.
Does anyone know if Kawhi reported his income from Aspiration to the IRS?
Nope it’s go show that the clippers invested more than kawhi salary now it’s even more circumstantial
Mr. Ballmer MUST GO.
In short, he is too rich for the league. Other than a Walton heir owning the Broncos, to my knowledge none of the Big 4 leagues have someone so disproportionately richer than the others.
Paul Allen and the trailblazers were probably the closest, but he simply insinuated that franchise into the Pacific Northwest and was not intrusive.
Mr. Ballmer, for reasons only known to him, did not look at relocating the team to Seattle. On the contrary, he attempted to really put a stamp on this once-moribund franchise.
And to his credit, he accomplished a lot: The Intuit dome, free agents willing to take pay cuts to go to LAC, and an entire generation of Angelenos who now only know the Clippers to be good.
But now if I am a fan of any of the other teams, I will forever be concerned that my owner with a measly 7 billion net worth cannot do this stuff the way an owner worth 157 billion can do.
Or I suppose the alternative would be to recruit comparably wealthy people into ownership. That would include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Warren buffet. Hell, throw in the Sultan of Brunei or Mukesh Ambani for that matter.
But in the absence of my proposal of having other Mammon-esque owners in the NBA, there is no way to get off of this.
His leaving the team would not mandate an LAC relocation by any means. It would be simple though = lease Intuit Dome to the Lakers' owners and the next owner relocates LAC, but not a mandate.
But yeah, HE MUST GO.
Send Kawhi to China 🇨🇳
Strip clippers 1st rounders until 2035
Protect Pablo at all costs
The circumstantial evidence continues to pile up and is an egregiously bad picture. We must not forget that this is not their first offense when you consider the $250k fine assessed by the NBA in 2015 related to similar circumstances surrounding the DeAndre Jordan re-signing.
let your co host talk more
Pablo Torre has been putting belt to Steve Ballmer ass.
In the past three weeks, how has not won so-called sports reporter, not uncovered the deposition transcript. Pablo is on another level compared to you guys.
Go SMU on them
No program for 5 years and no playoffs for 10
Nobody trust the nba to do the right thing.
Ballmer paid Aspiration. Aspiration paid Kawhi. Whether or not they want to play dumb, that's enough information to make a conclusion.
May as well investigate the Mavs now. Cuban cares way too much about this. I'm 100% convinced he's up to something. He's either complicit in the Cooper Flagg draft rig job or doing some deal under the table for Kyrie at this point. GUARANTEED
I'd like to thank Pablo Torre, Mark Cuban, Steve Ballmer, Kawhi Leonard, and the entire Clippers organization for keeping me entertained during the NBA offseason. 👍👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉🎉
Plot twist: Cuban wants Ballmer to get caught, so he purposely contradicts Pablo with a hypothetical situation and directs Pablo's investigation towards where the evidence really would be hidden
Or Cuban is trying to hide fraud of his own
Or Cuban actually believes Ballmer
Or the Packers are going to win the Super Bowl
Maybe mark Cuban is dry snitching and really want ballmer to go down
At this rate, he might as well be a secret source.
Lmao the block is hot
Dirk Norwitzki signed a 3 year 25 million contract with the mavericks in 2014, when Houston and LA were both offering him 92 million. And then Mark Cuban's film company Magnolia gave Norwitzki a ton of money for his documentary. and when norwitzki retired, he was hired by the mav's as a "special adviser role", which by the way is another no-show job. cuban set the blueprint that steve balmer followed with kawhi leonard. it only fell apart because leonard hardly plays and aspiration went under due to financial fraud. if that executive never embezzled, the company wouldnt have gotten sued and have all these contracts and payments Balmer made come out.