Pablo Torre

That Ballmer, for instance, could.

That team happens to be the team that won the trade

for Kawhi Leonard that won the title using the guy that they got.

And Shea Gildas Alexander, who won the MVP in the finals, then in the regular season, and won a title this year.

And so it's just interesting.

I just wonder, like, what does that team have to say, given that their trade partner happens to be maybe the entity that they should be philosophically opposed to, but in this personal context, you know, maybe that's a different calculus.

The language there is important and also speaks to the whole thing of like in the NBA, there is a justice system.

There are laws that the federal government ostensibly cares nothing about.

The difference here in what we report in the story and very carefully report using, again, seven sources to work for the company is that the very thing that is getting the Clippers into hot water today because of this reporting is the thing that has caused those seven sources to actively wonder

about what else Steve Ballmer might have been aware of, which is directly relevant to what the SEC and the DOJ are curious about.

We are not alleging anything.

We are simply saying this is a sports story that has actual resonance.

Even if the one thing is not a crime, the question is what else in the world of legality might actually be connected.

Yeah, I thought about this one, too.

This whole trade, man, like, it's funny.

Like, if you're the Clippers right now, it's kind of a...

It's a bit of a blessing in disguise if you think that Kawhi Leonard is no longer worth the max plus contract that he's been signed to, right?

If he's not healthy, would be the operative question.

All of this though, it reminds me, right?

Like, man, it was such the obvious choice at the time to get Kawhi Leonard and Ballmer looked like a genius for doing whatever he did to get him.