DeMaurice Smith

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756 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · Decoding the Kawhi Leonard Investigation, with DeMaurice Smith · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

You would play for $100,000 to $100,000 because you can't get any more money anywhere else.

And if that's the case, the bad guys win, right?

So the draft, the salary cap, everything that goes into a tortuous, and I mean tortuous, collective bargaining agreement is a compromise.

But that compromise is predicated on the fact that there has to be a union because the leagues have an antitrust exemption.

So when I look at a salary cap violation, I look at it as a violation of our agreement.

You can't simply start and end with, does a player benefit from it?

Well, because the yang to that is, who doesn't?

And if there's a salary cap violation, 30 teams are abiding by the rules.

One team is not.

it's very easy to come to a conclusion that the other 30 were victims of the salary cap violation.

So I've been in that instance before as the executive director where I thought the teams were violating the rules.

and I would file a grievance over it.

Great example.

For the fans out there who remember the Saints bounty investigation.

2012, once again, took a lining off of my stomach.

But in that case, you know, yes, did the union represent the players who were alleged to have engaged in the bounty system?

Yes.

Just to demonstrate how complicated that representation was, there was a walled-off section of lawyers in our office who were not privy to what we were doing on the defense of the Saints, but who were working on this issue of, well, wait a minute.

If there was a bounty, that bounty circumvented the salary cap.

Well, again, you're representing the players who theoretically were not violating the salary cap.

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