Aspiration offered Clippers almost double the $550M Intuit paid for arena naming rights. They were turned down by Ballmer because they wanted to go with a longstanding company
Aspiration offered Clippers almost double the $550M Intuit paid for arena naming rights. They were turned down by Ballmer because they wanted to go with a longstanding company
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Lol stfu ESPN
“Journalist”. Just a mouthpiece
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
this makes no sense and something is rotten in denmark
whats the point of this information? to make us respect Aspiration more?
….anyone else find it hard to believe they offered 1.1b for naming rights? and if they did offer that much for it, that any team would turn that down?
Aspiration offered 1B for naming rights to the arena? Doubtful unless Ballmer was about to “invest” 1B
So even Ballmer knew they were a scam company. I fail to see how this helps Ballmer’s claim of not knowing much about their finances.
IOW, it woulda been too obvious.
Ramona broke into “journalism” by carrying water for Jeannie Buss, and she’s showing again that access and kissassery gets you further in legacy media than bona fides & temerity.
So the story they are going with is that Steve Ballmer is just a fucking idiot.
To play devils advocate you do need to be careful so you don’t name the place FTX center or whatever that was called.
In reality Ballmer used Aspiration as a *shill bidder* to force Intuit to raise their offer. Ballmer then rerouted that raise to Aspiration for Kawhi.
This makes me more suspicious of the entire thing. You don’t turn down an additional $550 million unless you know or are hiding something
Shill bidding and shill journalism goes together like bread and butter
Ramona Shillburne
Edit – removed accidental letter. Please feel free to call her this going forward.
I don’t think r/nba has sufficiently prepared itself for the absolute slap on the wrist the league is going to give the Clippers. Just be ready yall
At this point it’s pretty clear Ramona is just Ballmer’s Karoline Leavitt.
I remember artificially driving up bids on my own sales on eBay 20+ years ago.
Shelbourne has zero credibility left
Ramona is as trustworthy as a wet fart
I wish my employer cared about me enough to commit multiple frauds
Bruh the cover job espn is pulling for this guy is crazy
This is Ramona paying back the Clips for all that access she got for that Clippers documentary she did a few years back
A company with no revenue offering 1 billion dollars. Seems legit!
Using Ramona as a mouthpiece for this, is a choice.
Bull he turned down a half billion dollars to go with a “longstanding” company.
Side note, if the story is true, wouldn’t Ballmer’s team have done diligence on Aspiration who supposedly bilked him out of $50m?
Ramona “Rudy Giuliani” Shelburne
ESPN doing its absolute hardest to try to make Ballmer look like a victim it’s hilarious
You don’t say “this is the type of money this company was throwing around back then” casually without implying it wasn’t out of the norm to give an NBA player endorsement money to do nothing.
This is really disheartening to listen to ESPN defend all of this as normal.
Does Ballsmer own part of ESPN?