AggieEP said:

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I think it tells us something that the best denial Ballmer could come up with was to claim he was scammed.

As you point out, usually when people scam you they want to take your money for their own benefit. It's a pretty lame scam to rob a rich guy and then give almost the entire haul back to one of the employees of the guy you just scammed.

Again, Ballmer is the worst money launderer of all time. Not that I'm am expert here, but it seems like figuring out an arrangement to funnel extra cash to Kawhi shouldn't have been complicated.

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And it isn't like he's playing Robin Hood. Kawhi has made like half a billion dollars in fifteen years

Yeah, to be honest if you think too much about the scam, it kind of forces you to conclude that Kawhi was the mastermind since he was the only person really benefitting here.

Which of course I'm ok with if that's the conclusion they come to here. Force Kawhi to pay back 50 million dollars and make him a toxic villain.

He's not the only NBA super star to force a trade, but the Spurs didn't get 5 first round picks back because teams knew they were trading for a pansy ass that only cares about himself.

Lol more saved rounds.

At this point I don't understand why people close to Ballmer or affiliated with Aspiration keep talking. Almost as fast as they make a statement Pablo puts out something that shows they are lying again.

AggieEP said:

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Lol more saved rounds.

At this point I don't understand why people close to Ballmer or affiliated with Aspiration keep talking. Almost as fast as they make a statement Pablo puts out something that shows they are lying again.

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This seems to me like the folks at Aspiration are basically all trying to shove (whoever) under the bus. I suppose massive fraud (even taking away the KL2 Aspire bs) will do that to you. Everyone's pointing fingers. Someone's gonna be left holding the bag.

Also not being a legal mind here, throughout this saga I've learned that when you read through legalese documents like the Klaw's Clauses...when seemingly random words are capitalized, it's because they're defined elsewhere in that document.

Another thing I've learned is that Ballmer is screwed lol. Get rekt, dude.

Good evening. You don't "remember" a lot about what happened at Aspiration, it seems. But I strongly recommend the opinion of the Hon. Lewis J. Liman, in the Southern District of New York, in the federal case that was explicitly cited in the statement I posted.

Because he does: pic.twitter.com/KS6xpuI6R1

— Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) September 13, 2025

Also kind of a tell that you say you "don't remember" conversations about salary cap circumvention rather than saying they didn't occur.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 13, 2025