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[STEVEHOLT]

Then why didn’t she leave this job she didn’t need? The argument is that her dad knew it was a sinking ship when he invested the money and did it anyway. Why didn’t she hop off?

maybe she actually wanted to try and help turn things around. She was not likely motivated by money obviously and given her background one can see that money is likely not something she needs. Maybe she actually believed in the cause. I dont know. thats is different though than forking over millions and millions of more dollars into it

 

[Knicks411]

The argument for Ballmer is he was an investor in the company, the company was in bad shape, the company went around looking to raise more money, and he (along with other investors) put more money into the company to try and save it. That's totally plausible, it happens all the time. Rich people make lots of investments in startup companies and try to hit a home run. An additional $10 million investment from a guy like Steve Ballmer is like literal couch cushion money. (For context; the guy makes about $1.1 billion a year purely in dividends from his MSFT stock)

And hey! Maybe he really did just give them more money to funnel to Kawhi. Also totally plausible.

To me, the real issue would be that since Aspiration had other sham endorsement deals with celebs where the celebs donated money and then Aspiration then paid them a little bit more (booking the donation as revenue and hiding the expense of the endorsement deal) that its totally possible they had a similar deal with Kawhi, in which case there wouldnt really be any circumvention (there would be fraud!) . If so, there should be evidence Kawhi gave them money. If there isn't, then it just looks like Aspiration paid the guy $28 million to do nothing and got...nothing out of it? That seems petty bad!

 

[Day2]

The argument for Ballmer is he was an investor in the company, the company was in bad shape, the company went around looking to raise more money, and he (along with other investors) put more money into the company to try and save it. That's totally plausible, it happens all the time. Rich people make lots of investments in startup companies and try to hit a home run. An additional $10 million investment from a guy like Steve Ballmer is like literal couch cushion money. (For context; the guy makes about $1.1 billion a year purely in dividends from his MSFT stock)

And hey! Maybe he really did just give them more money to funnel to Kawhi. Also totally plausible.

To me, the real issue would be that since Aspiration had other sham endorsement deals with celebs where the celebs donated money and then Aspiration then paid them a little bit more (booking the donation as revenue and hiding the expense of the endorsement deal) that its totally possible they had a similar deal with Kawhi, in which case there wouldnt really be any circumvention (there would be fraud!) . If so, there should be evidence Kawhi gave them money. If there isn't, then it just looks like Aspiration paid the guy $28 million to do nothing and got...nothing out of it? That seems petty bad!

As long as there are multiple possibilities, it’s hard to envision the Clippers getting penalized. Maybe a fine. Maybe Leonard gets fined. Or Uncle Dennis gets banned.

In Sanberg’s view, he was getting value. He had a $300 million sponsorship deal with the Clippers and was taking care of their biggest star. Could have been something he used to scam more people.

 

[Day2]

maybe she actually wanted to try and help turn things around. She was not likely motivated by money obviously and given her background one can see that money is likely not something she needs. Maybe she actually believed in the cause. I dont know. thats is different though than forking over millions and millions of more dollars into it

If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be easier to get her dad to invest under false pretenses? She wouldn’t have to know about any of it.

 

[Knicks411]

As long as there are multiple possibilities, it’s hard to envision the Clippers getting penalized. Maybe a fine. Maybe Leonard gets fined. Or Uncle Dennis gets banned.

In Sanberg’s view, he was getting value. He had a $300 million sponsorship deal with the Clippers and was taking care of their biggest star. Could have been something he used to scam more people.

The cba gives the commissioner a lot of leeway in a situation like this, circumstantial Evidence is theoretically enough to lay the hammer down. Whether or not that happens in reality is a different story.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I feel like this is a boring story.

Needs a love triangle or something

 

[Day2]

The cba gives the commissioner a lot of leeway in a situation like this, circumstantial Evidence is theoretically enough to lay the hammer down. Whether or not that happens in reality is a different story.

Silver indicated circumstantial evidence won’t be enough in this case.

 

[Newhouser]

The cba gives the commissioner a lot of leeway in a situation like this, circumstantial Evidence is theoretically enough to lay the hammer down. Whether or not that happens in reality is a different story.

The league won't have the stones to go after Balmer unless the evidence gets much firmer.

 

[Knicks411]

Silver indicated circumstantial evidence won’t be enough in this case.

Yup I was going to mention that but I was posting on my phone and didnt want to type out all the words. Let's see what the league/Pablo can dig up