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So one guy takes down NBA but multiple news outlets cant get Epstein files or Mitch’s death certificate?

So players have a cap and owners don’t. Tired of these greedy owners getting to take from us but not give us back their profits.

Now Silver needs to find out where the money to buy the Lakers is coming from. My guess is the Saudis.

Because I’d literally just offered him my congratulations!

Hat tip to Pablo Torres!

Now let’s try it with the Trump administration! ?Democrates. ?MSM.

I know that athletes these days more than ever build personal brands with multiple revenue streams, and treat themselves as the centerpoint of business empires - and get even richer on the back of fame - but I think this story could also introduce additional scrutiny to some other partnership ties.

Pablo is shaking it up. ESPN is junk sad

It also shines a light on the massive number of journalists who are NOT doing their job.

Pablo rocks

3rd thing: a large institution (NY Times) willing to not only ignore the story but not credit the journalist who actually did the work. Le sigh…

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And neither should be as rare as it has been in the last decade.

You forgot the part that the Clippers were able to feed lies to ESPN, just like the Trump Administration feeds lies to the mainstream media. It took a reporter who refused to back down to bring out the truth. There are very few reporters today that have that kind of guts.

This is not a story we should care about. Two things about athletes. They don't provide any good to our country and make more money in 1yr than 100+ people will in their entire lifetime. If people cared about scientists like they do athletes the world would be a much better place.

Read Fat Man in a Middle Seat by Jack W. Germond and Behind the Front Page is David S. Broder. Two former DC-baed great American journalists who wrote about holding institutions and powerful people accountable. Pablo Torre is like Germond and Broder.

The inability of journalism to hold power and money to account, and their willingness as an institution to do the same. journalists too poor to Write the Truth! Just following the Script from the Billionaire Boss Keeping the Status Quo '1%' Safe! News for the Boys!

What usually passes for sports journalism these days is generally just sucking up to athletes. The difference in this case is that an actual journalist got onto the story and wouldn’t let it go for the sake rubbing shoulders with sports celebrities.

And it shows why ESPN got rid of Dan LeBatard: he had too much integrity for them.

Agree on journalists doing what they should be doing. The harsh penalty on Balmer, IMHO is because he tried to screw over other billionaire owners, not because of ethics or fans.

Fearless bad ass reporting by @pablo.show

The fallout from the investigation into the LA Clippers, Steve Ballmer, and Kawhi Leonard stands out as a rare, full-circle example of accountability in modern sports. The chain of events illustrates how vital that link is between independent reporting and institutional enforcement:

So the NBA is less corrupt than the GOP. Good to know.

Now do the fire sale of the Lakers to a pack of criminals.

It's becoming like State run TV akin to the Soviet Era. All those news outlets are spewing the same lies that Trump wants to brainwash the American public with.

The ability of * independent * journalism to hold powers to account. The legacy media no longer does this. They support the billionaires and corporations.

People for whom integrity in business matters, do not become billionaires. They don’t fit in with the crowd.

It also serves to remind us that no one is using the ability of journalism to hold a corrupt President and his minions to account.

Shout out to Dan lebatard who Gabe him every resource

Not disagreeing, but in this case it's power and money holding other power and money to account since the owners don't like other owners trying to game the salary cap system (which saves them money).

Yeah but ESPN was doing everythign in its power to bury the story. Other mainstream outlets, as well. Seems like that should be part of the moral of your story, but I can guess why it's not.

Shades of the Wall Street Journal article about John Fetterman but absolute crickets about Mitch McConnell.

Any story about the Clippers should include the phrase, “Pablo Torre found out”

Credit to @pablo.show and his truly inspiring investigative reporting

Ok... When will journalists apply that same work ethic to the corruption of the crime family in federal goverment?

Shout out @pablo.show

>>The NBA-Clippers story << You mean the MNBA Clippers story?

Fuck ''American journalism''. It played ZERO role in this, even worse than how it has behaved in the national politics. ONE idealistic guy, with no budget and precious few resources, bucking an immense tide and powerful backlash, did the job virtually alone.

Kawhi should be suspended and fined way more than 700k. Also what's 30 million to a multi-billionaire? No one was actually held to account in my mind.