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's what the chairman really does is he handles the commissioner's contract and the audit committee, sorry, the audit committee, which Steve Ballmer is a part of, by the way, they're the ones who help vet the contract too, which is all very fun backstage, right? matched

Dynamics. matched

This is politics. matched

I think the answer to the question of, like, why does it feel so conspiratorial and why can we not dismiss these coincidences is because what we're talking about is a political dynamic in which power is competing against other sources of power with different agendas and self-interests. matched

And the commissioner's job is to sort of, like, manage and balance all of it. matched

And I think the criticism that's fair is this has – matched

apparently spun out of control in a way that has become public because what you're also getting are the Clippers effectively litigating in their own statement about the trade being frozen. matched

You know, they're talking about Joe Sandberg, Aspiration's co-founder. matched

They're talking about how they didn't know before the trade call. matched

that the Kawhi punishment would transfer to the Raptors, which is very interesting as the team that would, you'd imagine, be very happy about not being liable for whatever Kawhi punishment individually he might receive. matched

And I just got to say this before I forget, the name that has been flying under the radar this entire time, because it's been 10 months, matched

11 months, is the name of the only co-owner of the Clippers, Dennis Wong. matched

And Dennis Wong is so obscure to most NBA fans, but he's so essential to my curiosity around what Wachtell is investigating and what the NBA takes interest in. matched

Because this is the guy who has served as the alternate governor of the Clippers. matched

This is the vice chairman of the team. matched

This is the guy who holds 1%. matched

to Steve Ballmer's 99%. matched

And Dennis Wong, according to our reporting, and according to the documents, we have the bank statements, the money in, money out, financial flows. matched

We have the signed purchase agreement. matched

And what you see in those documents is that nine days before Kawhi Leonard got paid $1.75 million by Aspiration, after being three months late matched

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