Grizzlies fan here. I know everyone has given y’all shit about Ballmer, Kawhi, and Aspiration, but Pablo just dropped a bomb on my franchise when he revealed Memphis’ owner Robert Pera is dodging sanctions to profit off of enabling the Russian war machine.

I mean all billionaires are bad, but Ballmer getting creative to circumvent the cap is nothing compared to what our guy did.

Messed up thing is since nobody cares about the Grizzlies unless Ja is doing finger guns, this will get nowhere near the attention the Aspiration story did, even though it/ led to thousands of deaths instead of just Kawhi getting a little bit richer.

.Way to have the less evil billionaire owner. GG

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  2. It was bad but nobody will care about it because it has actually nothing to do with the NBA and nobody really cares about the Grizzlies.

  3. Also paying Kawhi money under the table to sign other players is way worse than what actually happened. Which is Kawhi getting extra money on top of a max contract, thus not changing the clippers cap situation at all

  4. Ballmer one of the more ethical billionaires out there TBH (got rich by showing up at the right time when his buddy’s company was blowing up, ran the stock into the ground when they put him in charge)

    Then he spent his money trying to build a sweet basketball team and arena and plant some trees instead of doing supervillain shit, what a guy!

  6. These billionaires are all extortion masters. I know ballmer is a great sports owner cuz he spends on the team and whatnot but all of these billionaires have skeletons in their closet. Happy that Pablo is investigating like this tbh

  7. I’ve been saying this since day one. So many teams out there are operating in shady ways. I hate that it’s allowed.

    But

    The Clippers only got exposed because of the fed investigation making financials public. Every other team gets to hide behind anonymity.

    Even so, the NBA is so reluctant to pass along punishment because they know it will open up the floodgates for cringe media talking heads to fall all over one another trying to poke holes in the next “cheater” coverup.

    The reason the NBA turns a blind eye is because it’s all max deal star players so it genuinely does not cheat the cap in a way that gives competitive advantage.

    It does however get the league’s star players more money without taking it directly from the franchise’s pockets so it doesn’t lower the overall revenue sharing dollars.

    So it’s actually a good thing for both the players and owners pocketbooks at the expense of really no one.

    But, for some stupid reason, cuck fans, mostly Lakers and OKC fans, just can’t cope with a rich owner and their most hated for no reason other than because he smacks them around with his giant Klaws when healthy nemesis doing the thing that the entire league literally wants and benefits from.

  9. A classic example of Pablo not understanding business. From listening to this, Ubiquiti has a wholesale and distribution network, that network can have additional layers that are outside of Ubiquiti’s control or responsibility. It sounds like a 3rd, 4th or additional layers that are distributing product to Russia. But for the sake of Pablo’s clickbait and Robinhood journalism influence this story peaks the interest of headline reading viewers that like a good story built on conjecture.

  10. This doesn’t really matter. NBA is basically controlled by China where there is an ongoing genocide

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