David Samson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And by the way, I've never heard of aspiration.
And I'm thinking to myself,
God, is he getting bad advice?
I can't believe this is what Silver's doing.
And now we've got this information.
It's game set match to me when it comes to the investigation.
But I've seen leagues contort themselves to make a result they want very often, like with steroids.
So I do believe that there's still an opportunity for the NBA and the Clippers to get through this because they'll just pretend that what Pablo did is not real.
What are you doing?
I've just, I've heard that clip so many times.
I watched it and I talked about it on Nothing Personal.
It just, it's not credible to me for him to say he's never heard of Aspiration.
They were on the seat backs of a Clippers game in 2022 at Crypto.com Arena number one, number two.
When there's a $300 million sponsor of a club, which is what Aspiration was, they sponsored the Clippers for over $300 million.
What the league does in that case is they call on the company and say, hey, you got any more for us?
We'd like to do a national deal.
So there is so much cross-pollination when it comes to the commissioner's office and the teams, when it comes to sponsors and companies, that for Adam to say he's never heard of Aspiration, it just doesn't make sense.
It would have been smarter of him to say nothing, to say Wachtell Lipton's investigating,
See you later.
Let's talk about the heave rule.