Rachel Nichols
speaker
9,418 appearances
80 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Rachel Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That part of these like second apron, eighteenth apron,
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As I say, salary cap rules were put in place with Steve Ballmer in mind because the other owners of other teams have been like, eh, this guy can outspend us so much.
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We got to put more and more restrictions.
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So I think on the one hand, you have other owners who are pretty pleased that this happened and feel like, aha, see, he still was trying to outspend us and he got caught.
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And ha, so there.
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However, to your point about it, it happens a little bit to some degree everywhere, certainly with
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Like, oh, we slipped him an extra two free tickets, which we're not supposed to do.
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Or like, oh, he caught a ride on the owner's plane.
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You know, the owner was going anyway.
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It's fine, it's fine.
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Like that kind of thing.
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Um, you know, owners are careful about what they ding other owners for because it could be them.
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You know, when the Donald Sterling thing happened and there were votes about suspensions and what Adam Silver should have done or didn't do, there were people, Mark Cuban very vocally included, who said,
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I don't want twenty nine other guys telling me what I can say and I would never say what what he Donald Sterling said, but what if it's a matter of degrees and it's a slippery slope?
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So I think you're right.
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There's owners who are reluctant, but there is a special case with Steve Baumer and the way they think of him.
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here's I don't
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was just saying here's the real question in that and I want your take is
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Does he sell this team?
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Because if he sues everyone because he's got a mind to sell the team and just cut his losses and go live on his private billionaire island where he never has to think about this again, he could do that.
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