🚨 UPDATE: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been sued by 11 Aspiration investors who allege Ballmer used the company (now named Catona) "to secretly funnel millions of dollars to star NBA player, Kawhi Leonard [...] paying him more than allowed by the NBA’s salary cap rules" 🧵 pic.twitter.com/GLnMHNfdWS

— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) November 4, 2025

➕ Plaintiffs allege that "Ballmer was complicit in and aided and abetted [co-founder Joe] Sanberg’s fraud for his own self-serving purpose. [...] Absent Ballmer's support, [Aspiration] could not have sustained the frauds set forth herein” pic.twitter.com/9nK8Izbxxb

— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) November 4, 2025

➕ The lawsuit continues, re: Sanberg and Ballmer’s alleged scheme "to evade the NBA’s salary cap":

"Plaintiffs would not have invested and/or kept their investment in [Aspiration] if Ballmer and Sanberg had disclosed the true nature of Ballmer’s investment" pic.twitter.com/DIaXlRsAHn

— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) November 4, 2025

➕ Plaintiffs allege: "Ballmer transferred other funds to [Aspiration] to keep the company afloat and buy Sanberg's support, cooperation and silence about the secret deal with Leonard. The full extent of Ballmer’s transfers of funds [...] will be ascertained in discovery" pic.twitter.com/6Hpj6WglIB

— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) November 4, 2025

➕ Full PDF of lawsuit at my newsletter: https://t.co/aWLCKuowG4

— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) November 4, 2025

Blow that mother ****er up

Everything nephew and uncle touch turns into steaming piles of dog ****

It's a wonderful consolation after he tried to bend the Spurs over.

Hope you never have another good season, Kawhi. You're trash.

"Day to Day" is Spurs lingo for 2 months out, hahaha

Insert MJ looking at the ipad and laughing gif here

The vibes are back and brighter 🎉@Ledger | #sponsored pic.twitter.com/HLqd88ok3x

— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) November 4, 2025

This would be perfect without the random shapes in the mid range

They just can't help themselves. The people want Fiesta, and they just have to throw their "spin" on it.

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The vibes are back and brighter 🎉@Ledger | #sponsored pic.twitter.com/HLqd88ok3x

— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) November 4, 2025

This would be perfect without the random shapes in the mid range

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What is that crap? How long has it been there?

Anyone got any updates on how the voting went today?

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Anyone got any updates on how the voting went today?

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was wondering the same. They've done a good job marketing it during the games. I'm worried it is going to be a Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers- esque power play

Not a whole lot is surprising in the latest Spurs' injury report, as delivered by our @tom_orsborn on the ground in L.A.:

De'Aaron Fox, Luke Kornet and Dylan Harper remain out tomorrow vs. Lakers.

Sochan, Olynyk and Waters will be game-time(ish) decisions.

— Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) November 4, 2025

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Anyone got any updates on how the voting went today?

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Early voting totals

PROP A
57.47 FOR
42.53 AGAINST
 
PROP B
53.05 FOR
46.95 AGAINST
 Early voting only

— Don Harris (@DonHarris4) November 5, 2025

Tighter polling than I Anticipatef

TPR is saying they are both gonna pass

It's kind if baffling how close the Prob B vote was. The main concern I saw with those opposed to it was because of the construction inconvenience, like what?

Because me and Guitarsoup went back and forth on him a lot in the draft process, Derik Queen had his best game as a pro last night.

In 18 minutes he put up 12/8/7 with 3 steals also for a +13 in those minutes.

I have NO idea if he can do this consistently AND it was against the Hornets lol, but nonetheless a data point. It'll be interesting to see how his season goes.

ETA that the Pelicans overall are a dumpster fire and this is raising my hopes that Murphy becomes available this season. Vassell plus draft compensation should be enough.

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Because me and Guitarsoup went back and forth on him a lot in the draft process, Derik Queen had his best game as a pro last night.

In 18 minutes he put up 12/8/7 with 3 steals also for a +13 in those minutes.

I have NO idea if he can do this consistently AND it was against the Hornets lol, but nonetheless a data point. It'll be interesting to see how his season goes.

ETA that the Pelicans overall are a dumpster fire and this is raising my hopes that Murphy becomes available this season. Vassell plus draft compensation should be enough.

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How about his defense? I always agreed he had nice footwork and touch. But I don't think he is the PF we want next to Wemby. He did have those 7 assists in this game, but those were actually the first assists he had all year, amazingly enough. He had played over 100 minutes without an assist. And his shooting has all been down low - he still doesn't have range, which was my concern. So back to my pre-draft talk on him, he doesnt have a shot and doesn't space the floor (still seems to be true), his defense sucks (still true), and he is a bad fit next to Wemby (still true.)

And I still can't believe NO gave up an unprotected pick next year and #23 for that tub of lard.

I'm sure his defense was sub par, but 12/8/7 is super productive in 18 minutes. In the draft process that's what I saw that I thought would really help our 2nd unit almost immediately because he can score and facilitate from the post.

Jokic is a fat tub of lard also that plays sub par defense, so it's not like there isn't precedent for that kind of player to succeed if they can be efficient enough offensively. Queen just has to prove that he can bring this kind of production consistently and if he can then he's a super valuable bench piece.

Obviously not saying his ceiling is Jokic, but I do think his ceiling is a difference making offensive player on the 2nd unit of a good team where he only has to bring effort for 20 minutes a night.

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Jokic is a fat tub of lard also that plays sub par defense, so it's not like there isn't precedence for that kind of player to succeed if they can be efficient enough offensively.

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But Joker's got such a high IQ on there, he does make a defensive difference, even if he isnt giving effort on every play.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44346405/nikola-jokic-quietly-league-analytics-defender

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Queen just has to prove that he can bring this kind of production consistently and if he can then he's a super valuable bench piece.

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He has the footwork and has soft touch, but you are right that consistency is key.

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Obviously not saying his ceiling is Jokic, but I do think his ceiling is a difference making offensive player on the 2nd unit of a good team where he only has to bring effort for 20 minutes a night.

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Yeah, I agree he could be a good 2nd unit guy. Maybe someday he can be a poor man's Sengun as a 2nd team hub, but I still rather get what we got in Carter Bryant - a ceiling of a long term D&3 starter that is a lock down defender with size and athleticism. I would have taken Queen somewhere after Sorber, but if my thought is that his ceiling is a productive bench player, I don't want to use a lottery pick on that. I do agree he could be that, and that is probably a good thing for backing up Zion. But not at that cost they paid of their own 26 first and the 23rd pick last year.

FWIW, I don't think NOLA blows it up this year, but I sure wouldn't mind Devin+Atl's 26 pick for Trey.

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It's kind if baffling how close the Prob B vote was. The main concern I saw with those opposed to it was because of the construction inconvenience, like what?

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It's not baffling when you think how uninformed and sometimes just flat-out stupid people are in general. Next, factor in how it's mostly older people who vote (older people who don't care about sports, which is for the younger crowd).

I'm glad my city didn't step on its own wiener at the goal line, despite the efforts of our dumbass Mayor. I don't think the Spurs would have left after just one vote not going their way, but why would you antagonize the one popular thing we have in town? Especially after getting Wemby.

I early voted and there was literally 3 other people voting at the same time as me. I think overall most people just don't care enough to vote.

That said, publicly funding sports arenas is a terrible concept. Not hard to see why people would oppose it from a purely economical stand point. Add to that how none of the promises were met for the Frost Bank Center in terms of development in the area and again not hard for people to vote against.

Personally I voted for bc I don't want the spurs to leave SA, but I think the general plan for this development kind of sucks.

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I early voted and there was literally 3 other people voting at the same time as me. I think overall most people just don't care enough to vote.

That said, publicly funding sports arenas is a terrible concept. Not hard to see why people would oppose it from a purely economical stand point. Add to that how none of the promises were met for the Frost Bank Center in terms of development in the area and again not hard for people to vote against.

Personally I voted for bc I don't want the spurs to leave SA, but I think the general plan for this development kind of sucks.

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This is where I am.

I'm for it because I like the Spurs and I think there is 'some' economic benefit (never as much as the pro-side claims) and I think there is a huge benefit to a city that can't be measured in numbers.

As for the Mayor, I think what she was trying to say has a lot of truth in it. She just was just unnecessarily confrontational and combative. She's just not a good politician.

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2008and1 said:

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I early voted and there was literally 3 other people voting at the same time as me. I think overall most people just don't care enough to vote.

That said, publicly funding sports arenas is a terrible concept. Not hard to see why people would oppose it from a purely economical stand point. Add to that how none of the promises were met for the Frost Bank Center in terms of development in the area and again not hard for people to vote against.

Personally I voted for bc I don't want the spurs to leave SA, but I think the general plan for this development kind of sucks.

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This is where I am.

I'm for it because I like the Spurs and I think there is 'some' economic benefit (never as much as the pro-side claims) and I think there is a huge benefit to a city that can't be measured in numbers.

As for the Mayor, I think what she was trying to say has a lot of truth in it. She just was just unnecessarily confrontational and combative. She's just not a good politician.

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The thing to me is that we probably wouldn't be forcing a new arena now if they did it right 25 years ago when they built the FBC and 35 years ago when they built the Alamodome. SA/Bexar royally screwed up both of those builds. Ideally with the Spurs paying ~75% or more of this and it actually being in the right place this time, the cost will be born more by the team and the City will get it's money back out of it through taxes and events.

Utah's Walker Kessler is out for the season after tearing his labrum. I think Utah was trying to trade him before the deadline to get picks and that's DOA now. He is a RFA this summer and they couldn't come to an extension before That will be an interesting one.

Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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On the court at the same time. Not great.

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Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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On the court at the same time. Not great.

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Just really need Kornet back.

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Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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On the court at the same time. Not great.

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all look like they're playing their first game of the season

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Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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On the court at the same time. Not great.

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Just really need Kornet back.

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And Lindy can shoot, but two bad turnovers .

Luka may get up 50 shots tonight.

Victor has to be disciplined. He's putting this team in a really tough spot with his lack of awareness.

Im all for Wemby praise, but he has been pretty bad overall the last two games. With as much as they're talking about him you'd think he has Luka's stat line

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Sochan, Olynyk, Lindy back.

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On the court at the same time. Not great.

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Just really need Kornet back.

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And Fox.

I'm a bit baffled why Sochan is in the court but Vassell is trying to guard Luka (and being predictably bad at it).

What happened to Wemby last 2 games? sick?