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

Care for the environment and NBA salary cap circumvention are not mutually exclusive.

 

You don't have to wait till tomorrow, you can get everything from the Clover case for free here, including the 532 page transcript of Sanberg's deposition (Entry 365)

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/FCASeFiledDocsDetail?county_code=SAsOoVuCm_PLUS_7hbmGpf6T_PLUS_UQ==&txtIndexNo=NQ5daC6yCcucYb0uOH7nDw==&showMenu=no&isPreRji=N&civilCase=RPUxF1d5u8hmuxOIHXZMOQ==

( I can't remember if these URL's persist, just looku pthe case by index no again if it doesn't, it is 652063/23, the NY webcivil site is clunky but it works)

FWIW he takes the fifth a lot, basically any question as to how Aspiration made money.

 

I can actually confirm this, it's part of what I do for a living. In this situation it's not typical to do what they did. It's more usual for a company like the one I work for to do that, but it's usually with organizations that have already delivered legitimate credits and have that infrastructure - not for upstarts or unproven "assets" because those carbon credits are usually VERY important for the operation of a lot of businesses that use them (less so the Clippers, which may be one of their "excuses" because they can probably plead naiveté a little bit.) We buy HUGE amounts as an actual large energy provider, but we're buying in advance from people who've delivered for over a decade at this point and we're pumping out emissions from actual fossil fuel power plants. I can't see any valid reason for a basketball stadium to buy a large amount of carbon credits in advance, never mind from a company with no track record. Isn't it supposed to be a super hi-tech arena already? It's got to be way more energy efficient than some of the older arenas in the country, how much carbon do they really think they're putting out?