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[Pablo Torre] Steve Balmer paid Kawhi Leonard under the table to avoid salary cap

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by Commodore, Sep 3, 2025.

  1. astrosrule

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    Same shady stuff as who? The only ones we know 100% are tim and foster, the nba did an incredible job burying and lying about everything.
     
  2. Buck Turgidson

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    Foster or any other ref. ******* that Foster was, there's nothing I know of that says he was dirty like Doughnuty.

    If you feel otherwise please show me me.
     
  3. astrosrule

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    Go back and read what i said, the 134 phone calls between them before games is proven fact
     
  4. Buck Turgidson

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    Maybe I don't want to read 134 phone calls?

    :) It's all good
     
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    I don't get what you're trying to say, you don't believe that foster was involved in the betting? Or that i'm making that stuff up?
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Show me evidence of some multi-ref conspiracy.

    Of course Foster sucks.

    Who was the old man who hated Drexler? Threw him out of the game after about 5 minutes vs Utah?
     
  7. astrosrule

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    Do you not consider the fact that foster and tim had 134 phone calls before games to be evidence? If that’s not evidence then i don’t know what you would even consider. They didn’t do it before or after he was caught betting on games. I can’t tell if you’re trying to be trolly here or you actually think there’s nothing suspicious about that?
     
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    Jake O'Donnell. His open hatred of Clyde was an embarrassment for the NBA and I think the league forced him to retire.
     
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    That 2018 series was when the nba lost all real relevance to me. Waving off obvious 4-point plays.. it’s pro wrestling at best

    all these players can move every summer in free-agency but the nba elite control which teams advance and they assign refs for particular playoff series to get the desired outcome they want.
     
    #289 StroudAndYorDaddy, Sep 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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  10. StroudAndYorDaddy

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    and somehow cooper Flagg ends up in Dallas

    it’s crazy how the nba media is still trying to act like that Luka trade wasn’t orchestrated by the nba heading into the nbc deal lol

    they should just drop that weak storyline, it only makes people more annoyed
     
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    I am perplexed at the greed of the Leonard family .....
     
  12. luckyman76

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    I want LBJ to go down for PEDs but I doubt the NBA wants that at all. Scott Foster AND others were rigging games but that is not going anywhere. The NBA tried to gift CP3 to Lakers and got rebuffed. Gifted AD to Lakers with Zion going back and didn't care about the blowback enough to gift Luka to Lakers for Flagg. Many things can coexist. The story right now is Kawhi and I think will shift to Brunson. To me and many others the NBA is shifting into WWE territory if they think they can keep doing these things.
     
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  13. Dobbizzle

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    Is there any evidence at all of Brunson or are people making it up? Uncle Dennis and Kawhi is one thing, Kawhi is a weird dude anyway so I can imagine him just leaving his Uncle to wild out regardless. Brunson genuinely seems like a good kid, I'm not going to join in condemning people based on assumptions and conspiracy theories built around vague plausibility and treating that as truth. If there's evidence like Kawhi then cool, but you can't just declare a man corrupt because by your own standards he wouldn't take less money. That says more about those who do than him tbh.
     

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