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

The history of the salary cap alone, I think it originated in the NBA.

Insistence on the salary cap made the NFL come up with the slogan any given Sunday.

Why?

Yes, parity.

Yes, equal opportunity.

You know what it really did?

Man, it made for great entertainment.

So why on God's green earth would you think that it's okay to have a baseline where it's okay to circumvent the salary cap?

100%.

Hey, look, I, I never sort of as a rule, I never, I never second guess another, another union head because I know the jobs are, are nearly impossible.

It's hard.

The job is awful for the most part and it's hard.

But I do know this and, and, and,

The rules that you torturously negotiate are important for a lot of reasons.

And, you know, that statement could have been when they knew X about the investigation and now they know Y. Or you're doing it because you have an obligation to protect the player.

I get all of them.

And there are days when you have to make public statements as the head of a union because you have to make public statements.

Yeah, and look, David's brilliant.

The players are lucky to have him.

I can only talk about the way that I would have perceived this issue knowing everything that I've read in the press.

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