[News] Clippers Paying Kawhi Under the Table

[Insomniacal Fan]

Pablo works for the Athletic, which is a subsidiary of the New York Times so it’s not like this is a random TikToker breaking this news

I don't think that's quite right. I believe that The Athletic distributes PTFO, but does not exert editorial oversight.

“They purchased the right to license us,” he said. “It just means that they advertise, monetize, promote the show—but they don’t own the show.”

I think The Athletic is operating more as a social media platform or as a news aggregator here; distributing content without owning or taking responsibility for its contents. Which is an approach that I think marginalizes the investigative journalism. I want there to be more journalism, and I want it to matter.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972754414932029649

 

[Capt. Factorial]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972754414932029649

Feels like a serious failure to read the room here

 

[Tetsujin]

Feels like a serious failure to read the room here

The most autistic player in the NBA remains autistic I guess

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972755370935492996

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972755046380294238

Bro guilty as hell lmao

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972655149752443342

Pablo doing all the legwork in the open so the league can’t claim plausible deniability

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972762602758627651

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Amazing they let this man talk.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985524736668155918

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990473730284531863

 

[kingsboi]

it's been time for the Clipps to rebuild, don't know if Ballmer can stomach that though

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996262700520001620

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

it's been time for the Clipps to rebuild, don't know if Ballmer can stomach that though

Even if he can't stomach a rebuild, he may eventually have no other choice but to.

 

[Tetsujin]

Issue with any rebuild is that the Clippers still don’t have control of their own picks until the 2030s thanks to the Harden picks coming after the Last of the Paul George trade pick swaps conveys in 2027.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I bet it would be fun to revisit some of the post-mortems on the Paul George and Kawhi deals from summer of 2019.

This reddit thread off to a hot start (just skimmed the top post and the top comment below it is "Jerry West is the GOAT!") lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/nbadiscussion/comments/c9qj4e/kawhi_leonard_signs_with_the_los_angeles_clippers

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996624994399359352

There was a fun fifteen year or so period where they had Lob City and Kawhi came in but it appears the Clippers might be back to being the Clippers again.

 

[kingsboi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996624994399359352

There was a fun fifteen year or so period where they had Lob City and Kawhi came in but it appears the Clippers might be back to being the Clippers again.

Clipps and Kings competing for California irrelevancy just like the good ol' times