Pablo Torre: Two immediate questions: 1) Why did Steve Ballmer’s $300M+ Aspiration partnership not reach Adam Silver's office before it was "expressly approved"? 2) Did no one inform Silver that Bloomberg reported on 1/18/24 that Aspiration was being investigated by the federal government? Over the first two seasons of their sponsorship (21-22 + 22-23), Aspiration had to put $7.5M/yr into the Clippers. Meanwhile: Steve Ballmer and the Clippers kept putting millions into Aspiration — which owed Kawhi Leonard $7M/yr in a secret deal nobody ever spoke publicly about. Fraudsters running companies like Aspiration or FTX keep sportswashing for a reason: hugely visible deals with pro sports teams and leagues create the public impression of trust and credibility. As if such deals must have been vetted by the teams and leagues. But apparently not?

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