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    Key word if what if it went to another employee? Maybe but we can’t see or prove that they paid it to Kawaii maybe Wong was trying to pay for payroll of the other employees so they wouldn’t get laid off. If that ceo pays Kawaii his million that’s his decision.

    Unless Memos for Kawaii or if there is a company memo what’s this for? I’ve seen those before. And Wong says Kawaii or even Uncle Dennis Dennis Robertson.

    There has to be evidence for that.

    I can just say I made a payment to cover Aspire funds. Now they could very well be doing a hey I don’t want to know what you do with that money. But if he’s a partner he can do what he wants. Depends on what Silver sees as proof.
     
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    You are genius man. I know a lot of owners who have stock. So technically if Owners have stock in Nike. Owners Nike can’t give Gianiss 250 million We can’t have Nike do that?

    Cause technically you can still own a Team and Be an Owner of a Company We’ve seen that with Gilbert Arison.
     
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    And I said that in another post.
     
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    Oh yes, I’m sure in the wire transfer, Wong stated “please pay Kawhi the 1.75 million he is owned for not showing up to do any work contract. :ADGlance:
     
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    It’s simple Aspiration invested in the Clippers. You invest you are going to have access to those players.

    Just as if I invest in Universal Music Or Warner Bros. Music. I’m going to get access to those artists. I’m a partner.
     
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    Dude you do a Wire transfer. They are going to say what it’s for. Nobody’s dumb. But that Money there’s gonna be an outline of what it’s for. I’m sure they can get around saying Company funds. But if you’re wiring somebody you need the name on there. I’m sure the wire was to the Co CEO. The point I’m making you can’t determine what he does with the funds. You gave him the money.
     
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    That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’ve been saying. When Ballmer makes a statement and says they know the rules. He’s saying everybody knows the rules. These are CBA rules you read when signing Contracts.
     
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    Like I said Ballmer put that 50 million in to float the company money.

    This is all buisness. If I’m a partner of a company or team. And I have a very successful buisness and my partners buisness isn’t making money. I can pay my partners money give them money to cover company team expenses salary players.

    Jeanie Lakers applied for a PPP loan in 2020 they didn’t have any other money but basketball coming in.

    I’m sure Anshowltz could’ve loaned her money to make payrol.

    So if Aspire is having hard financial times making payrol. I’m sure Ballmer can float them 50 million to keep the company afloat and get people paid.

    you go in buisness with owners execs clients who have deep pockets for those reasons.if im an entrepreneur and have a company that I own and need some money. I can go to my rich partner Ballmer and say hey float me 50 million I need to make these payments.

    I can’t I already floated you some with the investment I want to see a return. You’re working with the team.

    f*** off
    Well one of them is your player Kawaii and I can’t make him his 2 million payment. His uncle keeps calling me us for payment.

    What????? I told you No player agreements or You did an agreement with Kawaii I just introduced you. f*** This is very risky with the cap. Okay


    Now you have a disgruntled player it’s a reflection on you. And you didn’t know notify the league. At that point Ballmer should have notified the league who knows if he did.

    Anyways he pays the 50 million to keep the company afloat. The ceo f***s everybody pays Kawaii his 1 million.

    That’s how I saw it going. And now Ballmer is out of 50 million. He got defrauded but was trying to give the company some money.
     
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    There’s just too much information left out here. This is why silver said, he wasn’t going to act on the mere appearance of impropriety. As an example, Wong invests 1.9m and Kawhi is paid 1.77m a week to two later.

    Without any further information, that seems really clear. But what we don’t know is - was Aspiration desperately trying to raise funds that week? Were they promising Wong some kind of special return or share option? Did they raise funds from other investors during that time period? What kind of payments were made that week, was it to many different things or just to Kawhi?

    Leaving all this out gives the appearance of impropriety but it’s too narrow a focus to determine anything concrete.

    For all we know, Aspiration said to Wong, we’ll give you a 200% return in 12 months if you invest now. This is a company that was meant to be investing 300m into the stadium. The reason why I find some of this stuff plausible is because I’ve had terrible short term cash flow and wonderful long term earnings in my business and I’ve had to bridge that gap before. I’ve also done work with people who’ve done work with me and given them favourable rates playing the long game.

    I’m also wondering if Aspiration was a scam from the get go or whether they just tried to fake it till they make it. There’s a difference between the two.

    In my opinion, there is only one party in all of this that has concrete blame and that’s where the real investigation should head. And that’s uncle Dennis, he should be banned for life as a representative of any player, Kawhi should have his contract rescinded with the clippers and he should be banned for 1-2 years from playing in the NBA as if he got caught doping. We’ve seen that they asked for rubbish endorsements like this in 2019 and 2022 - if you punish the player properly for this kind of rubbish endorsements it’ll stamp it out.
     
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    tale as old as time, billionaire bend the rules, nothing will come out of it
     
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    I’ve Stated. Uncle Dennis should be banned from NBA negotiations. And probably will. I don’t think Kawaii can get that ban as that will be a CBA players association issue. And they would fight that to A T. It’s a player endorsement.

    He should get some kind of penalty. Some type of Penatly. Penalty.
     
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    I mean the funniest thing here with this excuse is that absolutely a fraudalent company that would go along with something like this. A normal company wouldn't have let this s*** fly!

    Again I can't get over how Kawhii Freakin Leonard who is check notes, is a basketball player who is so uncharismatic as a spokesperson that the best shoe contract only pay him 5 million dollars a year gets a 28 million dollar from this company. It just doesn't make sense even if you're a freaking criminal unless the quid pro quo is there.
     

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