Pablo Torre

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685 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Sep

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Pablo Torre on the delay in the Kawhi Leonard scandal · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

That would be what I think a human labor. matched

It is like the Will Smith. matched

It's that bad. matched

Ask yourself what level of work was required to generate that proof of work on the aspiration side. matched

And then I turn to the quote that was in the article in which effectively, and I'll just paraphrase, the marketing people who generated this were told we should stop working on this Kauai sponsorship arrangement because it's a dead end. matched

To which is, of course, the story here, which is he never did anything, got paid beyond fair market rate to a comical degree. matched

I just keep on having to stress this. matched

It was more than his new balance contract, which he actually did stuff for a sneaker deal. matched

And it was more than four times combined what Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, Orlando Bloom and others made in totality, more than four times all of them combined. matched

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So the question of just like, what was this from the beginning? matched

It was a deal that raised questions inside of a company in which people were also suggesting, according to Mike Vorkinoff, which I was so delighted to see, the idea of like, there's one very funny laugh out loud portion in which it was an aspiration store saying, I don't think this is a quid pro quo. matched

I think it was more like a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. matched

It's I'm like, I think I think that's a scratch. matched

That is exactly. matched

Yeah, that feels like literally what it is. matched

But anyway, in by the way, in the devil of that detail, maybe what the NBA and Wachtell Lipton potentially is puzzling over. matched

Right. matched

It is this, obviously, but no one explicitly has written down that it is that. matched

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