David Samson
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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.
Let's talk about the fact that we're a highlight league.
But instead, he kept going.
And I don't understand why.
And now he's got to wake up this morning and the bat phone's going to ring and it's going to be Dennis Wong putting two million dollars in.
And there is no denying this.
This is a fact.
Dennis Wong put $2 million into Aspiration, and that money was used to pay Kawhi Leonard when they couldn't pay the rent.
When it was collapsing, he put $2 million in.
You know, if you want to make a bad investment and throw good money after bad, okay.
Dennis Wong had never invested in this company before.
It was Ballmer who had invested 50 million before.
So Dennis Wong comes in and LLP, Limited Liability Partnership, Tony, way to go.
But that just means it's named DEA.