David Samson

Because Joe Sandberg is actually proceeding in real life towards a sentencing hearing out in Los Angeles, the Central District of California, and victim impact statements have been submitted.

And what are they?

My only regret as we get into what he filed is that this is not a victim impact podcast that he recorded, which I think the DOJ should encourage as a matter of the evolution of the medium.

But this one was written to the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson in U.S.

District Court in the Central District of California.

And...

I first heard of this actually on April 22nd when ESPN obtained a copy of it, apparently, before it was published for public consumption.

And the letter said, quote, it had been filed in court according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

So ESPN got a copy of it early.

The author, of course, one Stephen Ballmer, who through his high-powered attorneys, David, wrote this according to the version Ballmer then tweeted out for all of us to read on April 23rd.

I am, if nothing else, a current talking head still on television.

Fact-checking is important here.

I dare say it might have been for the court of public opinion.

Or the court of Adam Silver.

Well, this takes me to the other fact-checking matter, which is that the reason I started looking into the story was not because of Joe Sandberg.

It was because, mechanically, Kawhi Leonard got paid millions of dollars as part of a no-show endorsement deal with a Clippers team sponsor that was never announced by anyone, while simultaneously being paid...

more than four times as much as all of the other Hollywood A-listers deals combined.

Like, that's the reason I got into this.

It's funny now to be bank-shotted through Joe Sandberg, but, you know, I want to point this out.

You're trained to read what is very intentionally said and what is not said in the paragraph that David read as a matter of just factual concern.