{"id":891058,"date":"2026-09-10T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891058\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:22:09","slug":"and-also-in-some-form-or-fashion-when-you-actively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891058\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd also, in some form or fashion, when you actively \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;And also, in some form or fashion, when you actively try to tell a version of events that is not what is reflected in the reality of this report, which I am told Steve Ballmer and Team Ballmer, legal team, and the Clippers, they were not told a punishment, but they were told, &#039;Here&#039;s what we got.&#039; And if you don&#039;t go forward to negotiate, given that, you end up getting the biggest punishment in the history of the NBA within a scope that is so relatively narrow. There&#039;s more.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;And also, in some form or fashion, when you actively try to tell a version of events that is not what is reflected in the reality of this report, which I am told Steve Ballmer and Team Ballmer, legal team, and the Clippers, they were not told a punishment, but they were told, &#039;Here&#039;s what we got.&#039; And if you don&#039;t go forward to negotiate, given that, you end up getting the biggest punishment in the history of the NBA within a scope that is so relatively narrow. There&#039;s more.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/fadeawayworld.net\/nba\/la-clippers\/pablo-torre-claims-steve-ballmer-refused-to-settle-with-nba-before-historic-clippers-punishment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;And also, in some form or fashion, when you actively try to tell a version of events that is not what is reflected in the reality of this report, which I am told Steve Ballmer and Team Ballmer, legal team, and the Clippers, they were not told a punishment, but they were told, &#8216;Here&#8217;s what we got.&#8217; And if you don&#8217;t go forward to negotiate, given that, you end up getting the biggest punishment in the history of the NBA within a scope that is so relatively narrow. There&#8217;s more.&#8221;<\/a> &#8220;And by the way, people have also asked what changed as a result of the ESPN story. Were they waiting on the public to react so that they could decide what to do? I am not going to yet wade into that. What I will simply say is that before this report came out, I was fully confident, based on my reporting, that we were not going to get 35 pages. We would just get a cover sheet, a summary of findings, a ruling. And that would come on the backs of a settlement. The whole point was to settle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;And also, in some form or fashion, when you actively try to tell a version of events that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,1187,459,82,65402,308826],"class_list":["post-891058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fashion","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-team-ballmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}