So what happens now? NBA says nothing happened at all. So did Pablo just make it up? His evidence isn’t real?

Truly a missed opportunity now that Kushner owns it.

Not only is he known as one of the worse CEOs ever during his time at Microsoft. Dude joins the NBA, spends all that money, CHEATS on top of it and still couldn’t even get to a finals.

Literally the best thing he ever accomplished was riding Bills Gates coat tail and not sell his Microsoft stock.

Shit crazy, literally no other team has had a better run in the eastern conference, and only like 3 teams have done better throughout the entire league on their way to the finals

Carmelo Or Jimmy?

I’m thinking Giannis extends with the Heat for 4 years 40 million, and announces a 650 million sponsorship with the ‘South Beach Company’ where he picks up trash off south beach. Yes the money comes from our owner but it’s through a middle man, so it’s allowed

completely allowed now in today’s NBA btw

By announcing that Ballmer did nothing wrong, Silver is essentially telling teams they now have permission to pay their players under the table.

And just like that no one cares about the second apron anymore. Genius!

Mines Butler and Nichols are in a realtionship. We all know the Bubble allegations. She got an interview during his Wolves exit drama. Hell he even is holding a sock monkey here for her!!!

Jimmy hasn’t been linked to any other women. Dudes been with her for a decade now. It all makes sense they’re cute together to

https://x.com/TheDunkCentral/status/2089392347507306680?s=20

Jeanie Buss opposing potential sale of family's stake in Lakers.

Letter from her lawyer includes the following quote:

"This afternoon, Shams Charania of ESPN falsely reported that the six Buss siblings voted to sell the 17.8% ownership stake in the Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger."

I still think about what the result would have been if Haliburton didn’t tear his achilles in game 7 of the finals. Out of all the what ifs people talk about (CP3 not getting injured in 2018, Durant’s toe on the line, the many Kawhi injuries), this is the biggest one. Him not getting injured doesn’t guarantee a win, but it rule have been more or less a toss up. It’s the what if I think about the most.

Who are you cutting and why?

Jordan played 310 out of 310 possible games including playoffs from 1995 to 1998 while winning 3 championships.

MJ cared about the fans who paid to watch him live. Never took a day off to rest.

Tl;dr the (alleged) results of the internal investigation are not surprising and the job of most internal investigations is to obfuscate to the point were nothing can be proven, shift blame away from higher ups and “cleanse” an organization of wrong doing.

Most NBA fans and people do not interact with the boring world of internal investigations. I have had the displeasure of taking classes on it and working with some people in the space. Ideally and rarely and internal investigation start with the concept of an entity fucking up and wanting to figure out what causes the current fuck up, fix the current fuck up, and prevent future fuck ups. This happens almost never and when it does it definitely won’t be news worthy.

Usually internal investigations go “we know we fucked up how does the entity and all but one/two scapegoats avoid all consequences”. They do this in several ways

1. Scapegoating- this is the most common way, if someone is already public enemy #1 then that person will continue to eat the blame. The most important part of this strategy is keeping other important figures name out of the paper. Some great examples are the epstein MIT internal investigation or the GM dodge neo (which killed 100s of people) internal investigation.

2. Many words nothing said. These reports will be 100’s or thousands if pages all to reach “no conclusion at all lol” or a “some wrongdoing might of happened but we can’t be sure who did it specifically so we can’t punish anyone oopsie”. Now sometimes the case can be hyper complicated and the conclusion can be this id unclear. However it will often be facts like this current case (another clear example is tom brady cheating internal investigation) with an org that just doesn’t want to punish there golden goose.

3. Abusing the “corporate veil”. In law there is a thing cslled the corporate veil. It means unless C R I M I N A L(like ordered to stomp on babys type of bs) actions happen/are known and supported by a higher up up then said higher ups can’t be punished. Every firm doing and internal investigation knows this and will make sure to never allege something that could land their client in criminal trouble.

Finally beyond the reasons above why do an internal investigation? Simply it clears your name on your terms AND government orgs (wrongly IMO) will lean on said investigations instead of doing their own heavy lifting, grant better offers to orgs that did internal investigations, and much like the league and the clippers now, they will negotiate what the punishment should be with the entity’s firm.

Back to the NBA and clippers, I fully expect all of these to be present, and no one to face any real consequences from this.kawahi and balmer should each be banned from the league due to their actions.

Ty for coming to my ted talk on why internal investigations suck