Happy Birthday, Kawhi!🥳
— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) June 29, 2023
For every comment/retweet, @Aspiration will plant one tree for Kawhi's birthday! pic.twitter.com/dHOS8sgyWT
The latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out is around 90 minutes long, and features terrific storytelling about what seems like a nesting doll of corruption and criminality in politics, sports, and greenwashing.
Here's a thoughtful response from Dame Lillard's manager (he's posted additional thoughts):
For instance if the patch sponsor of the Knicks signs Jalen Brunson to an endorsement deal, they don’t want to keep paying him in the instance he gets traded to a team that they don’t sponsor…
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) September 3, 2025
Of course, I’ve never seen an instance of a player not actually being asked to activate. But Kawhi can say that’s not on him. That’s on Aspiration for not making the asks. Didn’t see any emails saying don’t ask Kawhi to activate this partnership.
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) September 3, 2025
Unless there’s evidence that Aspiration employees were told do not activate Kawhi or don’t make asks, then no. He signed his deal with a team sponsor (common practice for a team star). They didn’t utilize him…that’s on them. https://t.co/Cfq9JNsTQb
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) September 3, 2025
Lastly, I’ve seen people compare this to the Joe Smith situation. The difference is KG’s former agent burned the entire thing down b/c he was pissed about KG firing him for Andy Miller. You’ll need that person or correspondence proving the deal was a sham
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) September 3, 2025
A 2019 tweet for some background:
Kawhi's uncle, Dennis Robertson, reportedly asked the Raptors, Lakers and Clippers for part ownership of the team, a private plane, house and guaranteed amount of endorsement money, per @sam_amick.
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 23, 2019
The NBA investigated and found no evidence the Clippers granted those requests. pic.twitter.com/l7R2NARpr4
And coincidentally, a new article I saw today (she's tweeted additional examples):
a commentator describes how many rules are 'fake', which means that if you follow them you get punished: pic.twitter.com/xdKSUinh2C
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) September 3, 2025
Finally, is this tee available yet?
Gonna sell this for $28 million pic.twitter.com/fkeLRNQ1yt
— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) September 3, 2025