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Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? How was your Wednesday going?

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I'm Chuck Mockler, one third of Clips and Dip. I

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think adam Osa might join, Will Updyke might join, But

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we just wanted to kind of put some content out

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there after one of the weirder days to be a

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Clippers fan, which I think says a lot if you've

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been a fan of this team for any amount of time. Really,

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it's pretty crazy. I don't know if if you missed it.

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Steve Balmer accused of circumventing the cap to give Kawhi

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Leonard twenty eight million dollars. It was a fraudulent tree

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planting company through what was that? Everyone was posting the

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happy Birthday tweet from that that that company posted. Yeah, aspiration,

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I don't know. It's insane, ex Longo saying what's going on? Yeah,

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we don't know from where I'm standing. Also, Pablatory did

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a great job and is really good at his job,

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so like we can't blame him for that because I

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was good. Yeah, I hope it's all bullshit too. Basically,

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they're calling out Steve Balmer for supposedly being the main

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player in this Aspiration scheme. That gave Kawhi Leonard twenty

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eight million dollars for a no show job. If you've

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ever gotten a no show job, you get paid to

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not show up. College athletes used to get him before

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the nil, you just get him. If you know a

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guy and you need some money, you can get a

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no show job. You just might owe them a favor. Okay, Yeah,

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Happy birthday to Eric Bledsoe on today of all days.

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That's what this POD's actually about. You're here for the

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Eric Bloodsoe birthday pod. The Clippers just released a statement

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that I don't know, I think covers their bases pretty well.

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If you missed it, I'm gonna go ahead and share

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the screen because we do have the power to do

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that here at Clippers talk basically pretty outright. They're saying

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they didn't circumvent the cap. Doesn't make any sense. Why

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would they do this? I think what's being Yeah, the

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big part of this is the co founder of Aspiration

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put guilty to a two hundred and forty million dollar fraud.

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This is not a new thing, especially recently with NBA teams.

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You saw the Heat have to rename their arena because

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they got scammed, and things like that. So if there

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was any owner to get kind of caught up in

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something like this, I think Steve Balmer would be my

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last pick for that. I don't think Steve Balmer is

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foolish enough at business to leave himself open to something

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like this. It just doesn't make any sense. And I

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don't always agree with Mark Cuban on a lot of things,

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but it just seems like they got scammed again, which

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he mentions crimes which they pleaded guilty last week. Him

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and then Pablo Torri got into a back and forth.

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The NBA mentioned that they're gonna start an investigation, which

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makes sense. You can't not do that if you're the league.

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Mike Bass told ESPN, we are aware of this morning's

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media report regarding the Ela Clippers and are commencing investigation.

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I don't think there's gonna be This is on five

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point thirty three PM, on half of a whiskey soda

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and admittedly a Clippers fan, I don't really know what

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can happen from this. The way that I see it

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is the Clippers just got scammed. I think Balmer got scammed.

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I think that's the extent of it. I love when

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I love when big things fail. That's just a thing

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about me. Like if a large corporation fails, I think

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that's great. I think they just got sc I think

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the Clippers got scammed. Here Logan Rap presenting a great

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call and if you're just listening to this, I'm gonna

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put this out as YouTube. If you want to watch

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us when we do these live, check it outs at

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YouTube dot com at Clippers Podcast. Logan Rap Clippers Faithful said,

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let's look on the bright side. At least we didn't

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do a fraud for Paul George. Love that. Yeah, that'd

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be great. Our punishment is gonna have to be to

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retake Paul George. I think. I think that's what will happen.

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Michael c is in the comments and he's very upset.

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Michael cees that you're kind of annoying. Someone asked, well,

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if found guilty, will Kauhi's contract be voided. I don't

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think there's any way in which they do that. I

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think the NFL, or not the NFL, I think the

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players Association for the NBA. That opens up a crazy

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the attire fool you. I'm not a lawyer. I don't

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think the NBA wants to do anything involving voiding a

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contract of a guy who didn't have anything to do

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with this. Kawhi is who I'm talking about here, didn't

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have anything to do with this. I don't think they

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want to. I don't think they want to open that

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can of worms because that's a huge can of worms.

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these things. This is a high profile guy. Yes, it's

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under a max contract, but I just I don't think

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not whatever you want to think about that they're they

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the one person who can just like run them into

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the ground. Right. Michael C has a lot of questions

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and is very upset. Why would they just give him

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a check to do nothing if they weren't incentivized by

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the owner? I don't know, man, because they're a scammy,

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shitty company.

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aspect of it makes me laugh. I think that's very funny.

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something like this. Yeah, and we're gonna wait, uh, how

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this all plays out? Like, I'm not gonna bound the

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table and say they definitely did nothing wrong here. Business

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is gross, is the other part of this. Big business

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is gross, even if it is your team, and the

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clippers are one of the bigger businesses as they're worth

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billions of dollars. So it's all kind of scummy in general,

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just how big business dealings go. We see it currently

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where you can just like get a bunch of money

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and give it to the president and then do whatever

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you want. Yeah, thank you, logan. This assumes an aspiration

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intended to actually give Kui that money. Yeah, do we

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know if he even got the money. I love a

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big scam. You know, that's always a good time when

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large companies get scammed. I think that's fun. KL two aspire,

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you know, shout shout out them. Okay, Donald Sterling sixty.

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all over his body. Yeah. A lot of circumstantial evidence,

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a lot of like smoking gun stuff. We can't sit

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here and pretend that it's like, you know, not weird again.

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Business is kind of gross when you get to these

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like millions of dollars billions of dollars level Dominic Reno saying,

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stop assuming billionaires are smart people. I didn't, I said Balmer.

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I think Balmer is a smart person. I don't look

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no matter what, you don't think. I don't like billionaires.

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but he's not an idiot. Some billionaires are fools. Sure, yeah,

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Miles Johnson here. They don't think the NBA wants to

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spotlight showing on the whole league. Balmer's probably off to

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shine that torch on the league. If it comes to that.

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see what you're saying, and that's that's the gross level

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of it. Right, Like now you know Pablo Troy said,

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now now he's doing he's gonna talk about he's gonna

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look at the Knicks contract with uh Brunson, who left

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like one hundred million dollars on the table. People are

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asking about those Dirk contracts that he got after like

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was it twenty fourteen or something like that. It's like

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it's just weird. So like this opens up a huge

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can of work. And I think Miles makes a good

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point here where the NBA doesn't want the spotlight shown,

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Balmer is pound off to shine that torch. I think

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it's gonna get kind of messy and gross, is what

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and other investors. What they did with that money to

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attempt to grow their business was entirely up to Aspiration,

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which includes a do with the Kui and the Clippers.

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So yeah, he got twenty one slash twenty eight million dollars.

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of up to four and a half million dollars for

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the first defense, I can't that, okay, loss of one

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first round pick that would sting the possibly avoiding contracts

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that are involved in the circumvention. I don't think they

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are going to avoid the contract that would have to

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be like, I firmly think sure, maybe they they did

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some scummy stuff for this deal with Aspiration. Big business

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at this level of scummy, I don't think it was

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scummy enough to void like the intent it doesn't seem

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like from the Clippers, it doesn't seem like the intent

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was there to do this in a way you know,

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that voided it to the point where they excuse me,

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that circumented the point where they'd be like, the intent

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is so clear here, we have to avoid your contract.

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I just don't think that's a possibility. Losing a first

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round pick hurts more obviously, And the four and a

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half million dollar fine, I think we're all okay with

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Ballmer paying that. Correct me if I'm wrong in the chat.

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on the Joe Smith thing. It's kind of it was

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a different scenario. That was an agent who was pissed

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off and then like burned it down. So I'll have

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to look more on that. Yeah, right, thank you. Robert

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to look at everything, right, And Balmer doesn't strike me

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as the guy that's, you know, to have a legal

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team that's gonna like cut corners. So yeah, there's just

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too much at stake for I think anything to really happen,

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you know, And that's unfortunately how a lot of the

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justice system works with powerful people is probably nothing's gonna happen. Yeah,

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We have an apparent inside scoop from five one zero

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Bluebird their understandings. It's already been investigated by authorities. I

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company was being charged with fraud, you know what I mean,

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like there was information with that. Sorry, people are wanting

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me to work right now. Yeah, this was set up

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was below the max deal. Was it twenty one million

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dollars below the max deal? No, it was like five

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million dollars below the Max deal, you know, coming off injury,

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all that, all that good stuff. So it's like we're

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also not looking at numbers where Kawhi took like, you know,

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sixteen million dollars a year or something like that. It

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which is now owned by the military. So if you

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haven't order ring, maybe ditch that shit. Yeah. So here's

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the part. If Balmer did do this, which as a

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five forty three pm on September third, I don't think

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they did, but if they did, it would be like,

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come on, dude, like, why would you do this? You

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can just give if he were to wanted to do this,

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you know what I'm saying, Like it just it would

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be insane if he were to do this, But all

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of us obviously should be pissed off if it comes

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out that this was intentional. I would laugh and I

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would be upset because then we'd have draft picks taken

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away and all that stuff. Oh wait, a Tief put

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that link back in there. Yeah, there was a bunch

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to day too talking about some of the issues with

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Kawhi and Toronto. He wanted sponsorships lined up, and there

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was some Raptors people talking about their sources, you know, uh,

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the GM and the ownership. There was having issues with

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Uncle Dennis's shady stuff when he was asking the Raptors.

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So I I, I don't know, Like it doesn't seem good. Yeah,

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like these deals aren't weird, Like this isn't an unprecedented

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deal for anything like that. This is what happens though,

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when you sign a large deal with a scam company, right,

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like you get scammed. Yeah, it's not crazy. I'm sure

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someone on the Lakers has a biby Go spont deal,

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right are they still sponsored by bibby Go? Which does

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drag ass. I think this is going to take a

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He could have just funded the company, He could have

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paid the luxury tax, but he traded Eric Gordon. I

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don't know, Like he didn't want to prop up the

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company who's sponsoring his thing. You know, it's not like

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the Guggenheim group with the Dodgers. You know what I'm saying, Like,

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why would.

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Speaker 2: He do that?

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to do he wants to do that. Yeah, totally.

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Balmber has stuff everywhere, hopefully all good above board of

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legal places. Yeah, Kia was a spot. Ye remember when

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Blake dunked over the Kiya. It's not new stuff. Wemby

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has a steake in Barcode and the Spurs time sponsorship

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with bart Code. It's just how business goes. It's gross,

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That's how I see it. But that's the way that

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shit goes. Do we think the negative press and the

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microsover under could affect the twenty twenty Free No, I

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do not think so. If it maybe, like I don't,

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I don't think that has anything to do with it.

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and things still happen. Then, you know what I mean.

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We have the newest ring in the league, and I

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think I don't think players give a shit. And I

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mean that respectfully. I don't think any player is gonna

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look that and go oh no, why would I go there?

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Right like, yeah, logan rap, why is my responsibility to

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fix your shitty company? Right like? We don't want to

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do that. Yeah, A lot of jokes about out the

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Black SUVs, A lot of jokes about that. I think

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I'm assuming pabulatory is safe.

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Speaker 2: I don't think.

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Speaker 1: Anything's gonna happen there. Oh my ad blocker's working overtime.

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Yeah right, we might attract more stars. Who knows. Uh,

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it's weird though, it just feels like a weird It's

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just a weird day to be a Clippers fan. Also,

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James Harden's restaurant, one of his restaurants is closing in Houston.

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It didn't pay taxes or rent or something, so I

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don't know. Shout out to Kawai. I guess we're taking

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the fall for that headline. Yeah, Jonathan Aang, I think

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the headline that came out underscores how much nuances required

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to sort of through this and everyone immedia jump into

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the worst conclusion the podcast is that pabulatory put out

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is eighty minutes long and not even about this issue.

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It's about just the larger scam that happened here. So

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I think the nuance point is a great one. Yeah.

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The Malik Beasley thing, I mean it's a great episode.

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You listen to the Bill Belichick stuff is great. If

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you haven't listened to the Bill Belichick pods, that shit

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is crazy. But the Malik Beasy one, Yeah, you listen

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to it and you think, oh wow, that's nuts. Certainly

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it seems like this is painted in one way and

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then nothing happens. Literally nothing they investigated. I don't know,

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just a weird ass day to be a Clippers fan.

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Punishment wise, I don't think anything substantial will happen. I

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pray to God that I don't get clipped saying that

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after we get you know, fifty draft picks taken away

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and we have to re sign Paul George or something

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like that, or Kawhi has to go plant carbon offsets

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in Barstow or something like that. Yeah, right, thank you, Sergio.

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Rich people in general always use all the loopholes to

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not pay taxes. Factive life corporations are people. We live

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in a healthscape of capitalism that is doing nothing but

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ruin everything around us. Used to be slowly, now it's quickly.

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But I just don't think there's a lot of punishment

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that can really happen. Someone brought up like this opens

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up such a can of worms. He's already met Pabo

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Torre has already mentioned that he's going to look into

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the next deal, which, if you were to look at

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a deal, is a lot wilder than what the Clippers

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signed Kauhi for love one hundred million dollars on the table.

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That's a lot. Kawhi, I think left eight, so that

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will be interesting. That is not the case. We would

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love the viewership of Hassan, but that's not how it goes.

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Joe Rosenfeld with some smoke. You guys know a lot

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more about media dealings than I do.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited too when I saw his tweet.

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That was like, I've been working on this one for

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seven months. I was like sick, and now it's this

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um okay. Yeah, that was they were a part. For

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those of you listening, someone mentioned that Pablo brought up

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the Kawhi aspiration tweet from twenty twenty three. Instead it

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fits his narrative because Kai didn't like or retweet it.

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Thinking that Kawhi is gonna do any kind of actual

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like sponsorship stuff is an interesting thread to use to

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weave your argument. He doesn't do that. His social handles

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are like claw set and like it's just not it's crazy.

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It's crazy. I think that Kawhi would do that. Uh yeah,

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they will pay a fine and then move on. Someone

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posted the highest fine is gonna be like four and

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a half million dollars. I'm pretty sure it just doesn't

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feel like they're special and we're just talking the Clippers here.

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Based on what we know now, it doesn't seem like

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there is any kind of incredibly damning evidence that if

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a circumvention of the cap was done, that it was

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intentional enough to warrant avoiding of a contract, the loss

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of a draft pick, or they probably will get fined

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and the richest owner in all of sports will have

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to pay it, and so nothing changes, Nothing will change,

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Metal Slugs saying, I think Kawhi looks the worst here

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unless it's Uncle Dennis pulling the strings, but just shows

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that he's in it only for the money. It's his job, man.

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Of course he's in it for the money. And also

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to say Kauai is only in it for the money

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after his injury history and the attempts to come back,

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it feels a little rough. I don't think Kaui is

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in it only for the money. Thank you, Robert, God

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forbid our franchise go as a climate activist. It's illegal.

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Planting a succulent tree is illegal. Yeah, Like this opens

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up because a lot of people brought up the point

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too of like how many LLCs in Milwaukee does you

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know does Jannis have? Or like what about those Dirk

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years where he was making no money and things like that.

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It's just how it goes. What about the heatles like

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these are It's just a nightmare. It sucks because a

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lot of the stuff I'm assuming does happen on some level.

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We can't pretend that it's it's all like fine and

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dandy or whatever. So yeah, I just don't. It's a

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weird situation. It's yet another weird day to be a

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Clippers fan, and we just have to hope that everything

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works out. I think everything will. What is the what

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is the biggest punishment you can rationally see that would

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affect the Clippers for this upcoming season?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Like, I just don't. They're not voiding anything. They can't

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suspend Kawhi because again, it's not his thing. Don't even

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get me started on this one. Brady taking a pay

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cut every year he worked with that insane trainer as

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a Dolphins fan, he played that insane trainer that they

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like paid all that money to. It's crazy. Tim Kirk

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the Claw is a great environmentalist. I've seen him pick

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up trash from the beach. He can use his hands

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for a lot of purposes. There we go, oh yeah,

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kill the cap like kill the cap. Uh, let's go

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nil style. Let's do that so people. Someone said force

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Kawhi that like man, if they tried to get Kawhi

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to sit out, the players Union would lose their goddamn

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minds and it would be like that would be unprecedented.

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I think the whole season would be crazy. I'm sure

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you would have some guys some weird solidarity. It'd be

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a fucking nightmare for everybody. This made me laugh. The

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can of worms that would open is literally Pandora's box.

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Sounds like a bad battle rat bar m. Yeah, no shit,

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thank you, Garrett Griffin. They give the mestic abusers ten

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games suspension and give Kawhi a half season more because

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he took some extra money. That I'll really show the morals. Yeah,

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shout out, fuck God, damn it. Ummm. I think at

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most it's a fine silver. Now if Stern were the commissioner,

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I think things would be way different. That would be nuts.

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I don't think anything substantial happens unless we find out

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that they really did do this seemingly very simple yet

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poorly executed scam to give Kawhi money. If they did that,

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then there we go, and it would suck ass and

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we would all we got all be upset about it.

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But I don't think they did four and a half

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million dollar fine Clippers and six Love that, Love that,

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Roddy saying, hope he realized Kawhi is not going to

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be on the team after this year and Clippers lose

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their draft picks for a decade. Brother, I've already been

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through about six years of that. It would do nothing

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to me. Silver's not Dune. He has to make an

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example out of the Clippers. No, he doesn't. They are

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hosting the All Star Game at the clippers new arena.

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I don't. I don't like preferential treatment. But if you're

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Adam Silver, are you gonna harshly punish the owner of

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the team who's hosting the All Star game designed to

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show off the new NBA All this stuff like, that's

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not gonna happen. You can hate the Clippers all you want,

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that's fine. I just don't think everything's gonna happen. I

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don't know. If they made COWI sit, it'd be a nightmare.

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There'd be a Players Union issue. Yeah, court a public opinion.

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Oh we're guilty, quart of public opinion. String us up,

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bring us in hell, put some cement shoes on our feet,

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and throw us in the Pacific Ocean in terms of

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the public opinion. But we as Clippers fans, it's not

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like we're getting knocked off some pedestal of loved by

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the league before this happened. I don't give a shit

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if that. I don't know if I can articulate that. Well,

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the statement does this from logan wrap. The statement tells

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me that the Clippers aren't trying to suggest it's some

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nuanced deal. They're straight up saying the hell you say?

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These guys are scamming? Right there we go. Oh, folks,

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we have the newest signing, uh to the Fox Sports

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Broader family. You know him, you love him, Adam Osland.

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How the heck are you? Have you circumvented any deals today?

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Where's our checks from Balmer? What the heck is going on? Buddy?

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Speaker 2: I'm only here to talk about the Fox Sports Radio signing.

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That's all I got for. It's an interesting day, That's.

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Speaker 1: What I've been saying. It's a weird, I guess kind

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of right down to it. What do you think happened?

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Is this a four and a half million dollar fine

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and they keep it moving.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna speculate on what it could be when

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we don't know what the evidence is. When obviously the

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Clippers just put out a statement, the NBA is doing

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an investigation. I just think there's so much reckless speculation

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going on and people want to get jokes off or

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other people just wanting to go after Balmer because he's

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a competitor. I've read some of the replies to some

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of the statements being put out, and people just I

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don't know, a lot of people are just they're making

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up their own mind before we even know the facts

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of the case.

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Speaker 1: Right, it's the court of public opinion that people have

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been looking up like. It's like that is kind of

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where it seems like. I like this tweet from justin

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La Clippers film. He said, I am of the belief

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that Pablo did great work and this is essentially all true.

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Actually landing the plane on this will be tough. Thus

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the punish Robaby spheres. One thinks let owners spend their

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villions how they see fit their money their team, But

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as people who pointed out, there's a bunch of teams

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right now that have sponsorships and their main player has

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an individual sponsorship with that team sponsor. So like it's

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like the Clippers were trying to like break new ground,

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no pun intended for this kind of thing, right, you

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got like the Aura company in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know, Yeah, it sounds like it's

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two independent things. The Clippers deal in Klas So I

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don't I don't know. I can't speak to that part

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of it. I know that it's not that uncommon and

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people are bringing up that point to it. I watch

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the hour and twenty minute long Although Toy podcast and

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he's nothing if not thorough with his shows and how

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he does things. So I'm sure he's standing on it,

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and he's tweeting about it right now. You know, the

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NBA is doing an investigation. We have to see what

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shakes out of that. But we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Are you of the belief like Jeremy Mormon, that did

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the Clippers do this on purpose to rest Kawhi for

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forty games?

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is what anybody was hoping to

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wake long God.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So that was the other part is it was

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like waking up. It was just like, what the fuck

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is going on? Like, I don't know, man, we just

470
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,400
have to wait.

471
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, my guy's pictures of money

472
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,240
would always say, when you talk about legality and investigations,

473
00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:51,119
what are we rooting for the truth? Right? For the truth?

474
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,400
And that's it. And you know, people coming after me

475
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,160
earlier today like oh, you're going to do a show

476
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,880
on this, and it's like, yeah, I did ten minutes

477
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:03,039
it because there's not much else to talk about.

478
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:09,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the we have Pablo's statement, a Vermas pod,

479
00:32:09,759 --> 00:32:11,000
we have the Clippers statement.

480
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:18,359
Speaker 2: That's right, as you mentioned, court of public opinions. Some

481
00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:20,119
people are going to make up their own minds early.

482
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,000
I would encourage everyone to wait for this and the

483
00:32:25,079 --> 00:32:30,559
investigation to get, you know, further than a day before

484
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:37,680
half a day. Yeah, acting like we know anything. But

485
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:40,160
I read the statement from the Clippers and Steve Ballmer

486
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,200
and it was strong and yeah, we'll see what happens.

487
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: And it's also funny, it's like this is another if

488
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,440
it plays out as the Clipper statements. Ever, it was

489
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,039
like we got basically we got scammed from this company

490
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:59,319
that sucked. It's now like it's them in the Heat

491
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,960
who had to change their arena name because of like

492
00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:06,480
some scam stuff. So like it is, it's probably a

493
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,079
different Sunday for different pod. But the level of scamming

494
00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:13,039
recently in the NBA has been large, I feel like

495
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,160
larger than usual.

496
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: Man. And apparently this company got a few people.

497
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I've seen, uh, their their former Twitter

498
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:29,160
handle now at Aspiration. Have you seen what it is now?

499
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:36,680
So I think they had to sell the the like

500
00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:41,079
rights to it because this is at Aspiration now. I

501
00:33:41,079 --> 00:33:43,440
don't know she joined in twenty eleven. I think they

502
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:46,880
bought it from Becca and then like now that they're

503
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,279
happen to her now that the business, it's back to Becca.

504
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: Well Becca all you Yeah.

505
00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: Her last three was in twenty eleven. I love you

506
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,599
Black Veiled Brides, please come to New from the She's Canadian. Yeah,

507
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,480
so it's like it's a shitty company my leaning. I

508
00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:08,559
just think they got scammed. I think that's how that

509
00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:09,280
shit goes.

510
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like they were they were selling, uh something

511
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,280
that was obviously very enticing a lot of people were

512
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,119
very much on board with it. So it's not just

513
00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:25,960
the clippers and that part of it seems to be

514
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,760
pretty clear. As of a couple of weeks ago, one

515
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,719
of the co owners admitted to the fraud. That's not

516
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:34,159
you know, under scrutiny.

517
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:37,679
Speaker 1: There's a great episode because what this company did was like,

518
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,360
we're going to plant trees to offset pollution, which is

519
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,559
known as carbon offsets. There is a phenomenal King of

520
00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:48,159
the Hill episode specifically about carbon offsets and the bad

521
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,800
business dealings with it that I encourage everyone to go

522
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,119
watch because it is very funny. Buck Strickland thinks he

523
00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:58,199
can get away with more pollution with the carbon offsets

524
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,639
that Dale gribble. It's a phenomenal episode.

525
00:35:01,679 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: Anyway, that'd be a sequel to the episode, and the

526
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:05,639
Hill's back, no shit.

527
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,199
Speaker 1: That might be our Patreon covers movies King of the

528
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:14,559
Hill episodes and Sauce takes Yeah, And it's kind of

529
00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:19,519
like kind of uh and like business at this level,

530
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:23,239
everyone is trying to make as much money as possible

531
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,920
while also I'm not losing as much money that they

532
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,800
possibly can't, So it's all inherently just like weird. What

533
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,400
do you think of Pablo torri Is saying he's going

534
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,599
to open up. You know, he's gonna look at the Knicks. Next,

535
00:35:33,679 --> 00:35:35,960
he's going to look at Jalen Brunson's contract.

536
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: Did he say that or was that just in passing

537
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,119
on the Dan Patrick Show where they were kind of

538
00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:47,400
bringing it. Didn't sound like it was that serious as

539
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,519
of this point. But I don't know. He has no limits.

540
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: He can do whatever he was. And also, I said

541
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,920
this earlier on the stream of any deal to look at,

542
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,719
if you were to look at two deals of guys

543
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:05,480
who took less money, who took less money between those

544
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:14,760
two guys, I like this from b I'd argue that

545
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,840
Dante Jones TMZ report earlier this summer is the worst scandal.

546
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,119
Don't google that one. If you missed it, be happy

547
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:23,800
you missed it. I would argue that too, from a

548
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,119
public health perspective, that could that's a big deal.

549
00:36:28,639 --> 00:36:30,519
Speaker 2: I'd really like to be able to hold on to

550
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:32,719
all the good the front office has done this summer.

551
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,559
I'm putting together a squad that could compete at a

552
00:36:35,639 --> 00:36:38,199
very high level and not have to think about any

553
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:39,639
of these things. I really would.

554
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: I do think. I don't think knowing Kawhi in his

555
00:36:46,599 --> 00:36:50,119
demeanor and things that have happened in his life that

556
00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:56,880
have been large in terms of affecting someone's life. I'm

557
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,840
not worried about his focus, Like, I'm not worried about

558
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,280
the team heading into training. I'm worried about Bogie obviously

559
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,760
and his injury. That sucks, But in terms of focus

560
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,480
on that thing, I'm like, I'm not what is so

561
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:11,679
they said it was ruptured, but that might have been

562
00:37:11,679 --> 00:37:14,760
a trans that we're talking Bogee now, that might have

563
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,400
been a like a translation issue with.

564
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,679
Speaker 2: Oh lost in translation. That's what Scarlett Johansson was telling

565
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:21,559
om at the end.

566
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, like and Bogdanovich, it's actually not gonna be as bad,

567
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,320
but he's out a couple I thought it was a

568
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,559
couple of months or something.

569
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said that type of injury could be two

570
00:37:35,599 --> 00:37:38,280
to three months, which was obviously dragging a training camp

571
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,079
from the beginning of the season. Should it be on

572
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:44,559
the longer end of that. But I'm hoping, uh, that

573
00:37:44,599 --> 00:37:47,719
report is accurate, that it's not as severe as something

574
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,320
was lost in translation. And we talked about Bogie being

575
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,920
kind of on the outside looking in with how deep

576
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,320
this Clippers team is and a lot of these lineups,

577
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,760
but they can use Bogey, they can they.

578
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: Really I think everyone who kind of talked about like,

579
00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:05,519
now we can trade Bogie, it was like, no, we can't.

580
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:10,000
We need Bogie. We need all the depth we can get.

581
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,920
You haven't been a fan of this team for very long.

582
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,159
If you think that we can just shell like our

583
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:16,719
depth a.

584
00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 2: Way, you can't have enough shooting and floor spacing. Also,

585
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,000
that's just at a premium in today's league. And he

586
00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:29,199
offers that started slow, ended hot, then started slow in

587
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:34,159
the off first round unfortunately was cold again. But Bogie

588
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,880
is a long track record for being one of the

589
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,920
better shooters in the league. And I'm hoping this isn't

590
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:39,760
too serious.

591
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Mexican Nara asking any news. The news is

592
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,360
just that the Clippers and Team Serbia agreed that he

593
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,400
can shut it down. So shout out Team Serbia for

594
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,440
not making that any more difficult then it might have been.

595
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,320
But yeah, I want we were so close to a

596
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,960
healthy training I would take healthy training camp with a

597
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:07,639
lawsuit any day. I mean, the past way, the past

598
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,719
couple of years of gone, I'd be fine with that.

599
00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,159
Speaker 2: I would love to be able to get back to basketball. Uh,

600
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:16,840
if that happens soon.

601
00:39:17,159 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: How many days until the preseason.

602
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,679
Speaker 2: You brought up the point earlier that you know, the

603
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,800
NFL is starting this weekend. We got a lot going on,

604
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,920
and we'll see how long this lives in the twenty

605
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,280
four to seven news cycle and what comes from it.

606
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, unless there's like another bombshell in the next

607
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,199
couple of days, whatever happens week one of the NFL

608
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,639
is gonna kick this ship to the curb. Someone's gonna

609
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,519
king good, but like, yeah, it's still king. I'm sure

610
00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:51,920
there's gonna be something crazy, Like I think it's all

611
00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:53,800
it's all gonna be fine. It's kind of where I'm

612
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,639
at right now, because we don't really know anything.

613
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not going to investigation started a few hours ago,

614
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:07,199
so maybe we could wait for any impulsive conclusions that

615
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,480
people want to draw from this, and.

616
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: If we know anything about the NBA, this investigation will

617
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:13,960
probably take a while.

618
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,039
Speaker 2: Yeah it could. That's true too.

619
00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:23,119
Speaker 1: They've had guys on video doing some pretty horrendous things,

620
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:29,119
and the investigations like still take it, you know what

621
00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:32,239
I mean? Like, yeah, and this one has a lot.

622
00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:35,480
Someone said the can of worms this opens up is

623
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:41,360
Pandora's Box, which I thought was very funny because it

624
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,719
does I don't know. I hope they don't make Kauai

625
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:53,039
plant trees by the side of the road.

626
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. It could be the

627
00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:57,920
name of this episode.

628
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, Johnson saying law was unlockedown earlier. Shout

629
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,199
out dime, shout out law. And obviously there's no certaintybody

630
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,119
thinks the league will want to get this done asap

631
00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:11,000
since we're hosting, since the Arena is hosting the All

632
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,039
Star Game. I could see them maybe wanting to get

633
00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:13,840
it done before that.

634
00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:21,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they will probably expedite as fast as

635
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:25,920
they can without compromising the investigation. So whatever that means.

636
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,840
How much do they take from what Pablo has already

637
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,920
done and then their own independent side of things? Right,

638
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,119
I have no idea how this goes.

639
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,639
Speaker 1: I don't know we're gonna start selling shirts and say,

640
00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:40,599
I don't know that's the clips to do new shirt

641
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:44,800
anything else you want to say about this.

642
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,679
Speaker 2: Not really, because I haven't said anything that's fair.

643
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,079
Speaker 1: Can we get one positive thing before we send these

644
00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:54,239
people on their murky middle of the week to think

645
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,840
about what might happen with Kawhi.

646
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 2: Uh got clarity on the City edition jerseys. We thought

647
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,880
they were. And I think some people are coming around.

648
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,760
They like the buffalo ties and the history of the

649
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,079
Clippers being involved in them, and I think some are

650
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:20,800
going to come around with the color scheme. I don't know.

651
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,400
I'm a big fan of orange. I know, not everybody

652
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,320
that Miles Johnson is. Look at his avatar there it's orange.

653
00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:29,079
Speaker 1: It is orange. Do we think it'd be more taxing

654
00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:30,920
on the knees for Kauai to do point of attack

655
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,639
defense or planting trees.

656
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: So it's no longer point of attack defense versus spottying

657
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,400
up big melt from the paint.

658
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,199
Speaker 1: I think it's the defense. I'm gonna go defense.

659
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:46,079
Speaker 2: Fifth.

660
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the city editions. I'm looking forward to seeing them

661
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,559
in person. I'm not the biggest orange and black fan.

662
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,679
Speaker 2: See, you're a Dodgers fan. Maybe that's part of this.

663
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,000
I'm from Nora Kallen Giants fan.

664
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: That could be. You know, the Dolphins have orange. I'm

665
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:05,679
a Dolphins fan.

666
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,599
Speaker 2: They got orange, orange and teal very different.

667
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: Well their uniform their rawbery uniforms look like shit anyway,

668
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,039
So I will say the Clippers uniforms look better than

669
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:16,679
the Dolphins one.

670
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 2: There's the positive.

671
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,559
Speaker 1: See all right, I think that wraps it up. Please,

672
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,320
and I mean this as respectfully as possible, don't ask

673
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,079
us what's going on with the investigation because we have

674
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,519
no goddamn idea.

675
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,039
Speaker 2: There's no inside information over here. Guys, just because we

676
00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:43,760
cover the clippers and podcasts all the time, it's not happened. Sorry.

677
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,159
Speaker 1: I wish we had it. I wish we did. It

678
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:48,159
would make things a lot more fun, but we don't.

679
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,639
So we'll be back next week. There probably won't even

680
00:43:51,679 --> 00:43:55,159
be an update next week on this particular issue.

681
00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 2: I don't think, not for me.

682
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: Unless I hear something from someone's cousin who knows somebody

683
00:44:02,079 --> 00:44:05,800
who worked with another individual, I will not be reporting it.

684
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:08,320
But if I do hear something from someone's cousin who

685
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,159
used to work with an individual who used to be

686
00:44:11,199 --> 00:44:16,360
involved in perpetuity with someone related to another person in

687
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,719
the company, I will let it go. I will I

688
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:19,880
will let that take fly.

689
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll speak upon it again until uh,

690
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:27,719
the NBA reveals their findings like whatever that means. That's

691
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:28,679
fe It could be a while.

692
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: We can do it up in every week, but we

693
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,039
will say, well, I'm like a really elaborate intro with

694
00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:37,920
really elaborate music and will be Kawhi Leonard investigation update,

695
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,400
and then we'll go nothing for you today, and then

696
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,239
it will be that was your weekly investigation to.

697
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,199
Speaker 2: Do the spaceball's combing the desert.

698
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:52,079
Speaker 1: We ain't found exactly, all right, Thank you for hanging

699
00:44:52,079 --> 00:44:55,440
out on the stream. For those praying on the Clippers downfall,

700
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,920
that's kind of how it's been going except for the

701
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,119
last ten years, so deal with it. We will be

702
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:04,880
back next week. Adam. Do you have a show on Friday?

703
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday night a Fox Sports Radio My talk about

704
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:12,320
it nationally a little bit. If I'm forced to check

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us out eleven and two, we'll be on a five

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to seventy LA Sports here locally and search your market

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and what region you're in for where your Fox Sports

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Radio station is, or just check out the stream and

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that follow out of May. I'll post you a link

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there before we go on live.

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Speaker 1: There we go follow the Superstar, Adam. We'll be back

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next week with clips and dip. Please don't think about

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this too much and as always, let's go Clips