David Samson

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312 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 6d ago

David Samson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Sporting Class: Private Equity, Salary Caps and Whether Players Should Want a Piece · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

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So let's start the show. voice-verified

See, technical issues happen. voice-verified

It's the communication that's bothers. voice-verified

your salary. voice-verified

It's very common though, Dominique. voice-verified

That's how Wall Street, that's how finance works, where you get stock. voice-verified

I don't voice-verified

Where we you may have lost me, Dominique, because I thought the rules were that players could invest in a private equity fund as long as the equity fund's investment in teams was not a control piece. voice-verified

When we're talking salaries with them, they're always interested in ways to make more money. voice-verified

In a non-salary cap league, we don't have the salary cap circumvention issues. voice-verified

There's luxury tax issues that I never had to deal with because I was never close to it. voice-verified

But when players ask for that, my answer was league rules state that you cannot be a minority owner of a team. voice-verified

So if you want a piece of a team, then you have to stop playing. voice-verified

And it turns out that that was never a trade that any player wanted to make because they realized that they'd make more money playing for the team than by giving us money uh to to pay other players. voice-verified

But if you're asking whether I think players should be able to own parts of a team that they play on. voice-verified

I have no objection to that because it would be a arm's length transaction where the owners would have a valuation that a player would have to agree to as any limited partner investor has to agree to. voice-verified

And limited partners in general under agreements do not have power in who gets traded, who gets signed. voice-verified

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