Tom Haberstroh: “If this wasn’t cap circumvention, why is everything so secretive?”
September 18, 2025
Tom Haberstroh: “If this wasn’t cap circumvention, why is everything so secretive?”
26 comments
And what’s the alternative explanation for this very strange series of events?
Narrator: Because it was, in fact, cap circumnavigation.
yes yes we wants it, we needs it. must have the precious.
So what more does Pablo have to show people to get Ramona & all the other water carriers to believe him?
Does this guy have the same name as Aziz Ansari’s character in Parks and Rec?
Holy crap he plead the fif.
Sponsorships gives you the best publicity when it’s done in secret /s
Either Mark Cuban is a genius playing double agent & leading Pablo in the right direction to uncover more cap circumvention or he is a massive dumbass that genuinely wants to protect Ballmer but his efforts keep backfiring spectacularly
Hahahahha
Hahhahhah
I can’t tell if Mark Cuban is a super idiot or a duepr genius, to lead them down the path to uncovering even more of the truth
Lmfao
How many NBA podcasters owe Pablo money right now for giving them this much content and listeners in September
99% of the time STFU is the best policy but when you have billions behind your name it gives you the irrational confidence to not be able to STFU
Honestly I can’t remember the last time I’ve had this much fun during a sports drama.
What’s also rather odd is we now know that Ballmer had a 300 million dollar deal with Aspiration and that Ballmer gave them over 100 million dollars.
Yet aspiration had not once but twice laid off people who were employed there right as they were wiring out money to the 1 person who never did a solitary thing, not a fucking iota🤔it seems suspicious to me.
They scammed up to 100 million dollars from Steve to pay an NBA player on his team. It seems odd.
Lmao Mark Cuban has been dry snitching the entire time we thought he is protecting Balmer.
Dude was laying down bread crumbs for investigation
Tax circumvention and portfolio pumping is what bawlzillionaires do, it’s in their nature.
At this point it’s a slow motion car crash. I can’t turn away.
Silver treating NBA fans like house plants is incredibly galling to me. He clearly thinks about us in the same way that Trump thinks about his supporters. I guess maybe I am a dumbshit for following this league for 40+ years. Fuck these ghouls.
Meet the Ballmers
Thanks Mark!
Why do billionaires think we are all idiots? That’s so belittling, only a majority of us are idiots, the rest are just poor.
Cuban is the real star investigator here, let him cook!
This is the smoking gun in my mind. If Ballmer’s relationship with Aspiration was on the up and up, Sandburg isn’t pleading the fifth every time Ballmer or the clippers get mentioned, while willingly talking about other parties. And Aspiration isn’t handing out a $28m endorsement contract WITHOUT EVEN ANNOUNCING THE PARTNERSHIP.
It had to remain secret. That was the whole point.
I just wanna know wtf Kawhi is doing with all that money. I’m envisioning a Scrooge McDuck situation with a vault full of cash that he swims in.
Cancel the NBA and have a new league started by the players. Cut these guys out.
It’s actually good to see Pablo getting his flowers now. He was one of the few people espn had on certain programs that i could stand listening to.
26 comments
And what’s the alternative explanation for this very strange series of events?
Narrator: Because it was, in fact, cap circumnavigation.
yes yes we wants it, we needs it. must have the precious.
So what more does Pablo have to show people to get Ramona & all the other water carriers to believe him?
Does this guy have the same name as Aziz Ansari’s character in Parks and Rec?
Holy crap he plead the fif.
Sponsorships gives you the best publicity when it’s done in secret /s
Either Mark Cuban is a genius playing double agent & leading Pablo in the right direction to uncover more cap circumvention or he is a massive dumbass that genuinely wants to protect Ballmer but his efforts keep backfiring spectacularly
Hahahahha
Hahhahhah
I can’t tell if Mark Cuban is a super idiot or a duepr genius, to lead them down the path to uncovering even more of the truth
Lmfao
How many NBA podcasters owe Pablo money right now for giving them this much content and listeners in September
[Plead the 5th is mentioned at 38:35 into Pablo Torre’s latest pocast](https://youtu.be/4_ow9i3obDE?si=hM69_r-hVJvD5Qpi&t=2312) – in case you were wondering, taken from a transcript
99% of the time STFU is the best policy but when you have billions behind your name it gives you the irrational confidence to not be able to STFU
Honestly I can’t remember the last time I’ve had this much fun during a sports drama.
What’s also rather odd is we now know that Ballmer had a 300 million dollar deal with Aspiration and that Ballmer gave them over 100 million dollars.
Yet aspiration had not once but twice laid off people who were employed there right as they were wiring out money to the 1 person who never did a solitary thing, not a fucking iota🤔it seems suspicious to me.
They scammed up to 100 million dollars from Steve to pay an NBA player on his team. It seems odd.
Lmao Mark Cuban has been dry snitching the entire time we thought he is protecting Balmer.
Dude was laying down bread crumbs for investigation
Tax circumvention and portfolio pumping is what bawlzillionaires do, it’s in their nature.
At this point it’s a slow motion car crash. I can’t turn away.
Silver treating NBA fans like house plants is incredibly galling to me. He clearly thinks about us in the same way that Trump thinks about his supporters. I guess maybe I am a dumbshit for following this league for 40+ years. Fuck these ghouls.
Meet the Ballmers
Thanks Mark!
Why do billionaires think we are all idiots? That’s so belittling, only a majority of us are idiots, the rest are just poor.
Cuban is the real star investigator here, let him cook!
This is the smoking gun in my mind. If Ballmer’s relationship with Aspiration was on the up and up, Sandburg isn’t pleading the fifth every time Ballmer or the clippers get mentioned, while willingly talking about other parties. And Aspiration isn’t handing out a $28m endorsement contract WITHOUT EVEN ANNOUNCING THE PARTNERSHIP.
It had to remain secret. That was the whole point.
I just wanna know wtf Kawhi is doing with all that money. I’m envisioning a Scrooge McDuck situation with a vault full of cash that he swims in.
Cancel the NBA and have a new league started by the players. Cut these guys out.
It’s actually good to see Pablo getting his flowers now. He was one of the few people espn had on certain programs that i could stand listening to.