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

I'm not underselling this.

Everything.

it cost you everything because the union is there to hold the owners accountable.

What I will tell you is virtually no one else is.

So the day that they know that they have leverage over you to not hold them accountable is the day the union has lost everything.

With a chance of winning, right?

But the other thing that comes from that, and it's more important with the ability to actually walk in court, it establishes a little bit of fear, right?

on the other side in the hopes that they won't break the law.

And that's more important than the former, right?

Yeah, no, it's true.

Well, look, the reason why the owners in all of these leagues are so dangerous is I know, and it would keep me up at night, what they can do.

without, almost without any recourse, without some FBI agent saying anything, without a Department of Justice saying anything, without the SEC saying anything, imagine, and I talk about it in my book, and it's one of the first lines in the book, if you had the power to do anything, what would you do if you knew you wouldn't get caught?

That's the second thing I'm talking about.

Once you have come to a conclusion that it is highly unlikely that you are ever going to get caught, that you're going to have to pay back money, that you're going to have to go to jail, that you're going to have to have public shame.

Once you've reached that point in your either professional career or the amount of money that you have, I have come to the conclusion that that is when you see people behaving poorly.

I used to say this to our players because every now and then people didn't understand why I was filing grievances to enforce rules under the collective bargaining agreement.

Cheating can never be the baseline.

Full stop.

Cheating can't be your baseline.

Corruption can't be your baseline.

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