Cuban went on Pablo Torre today and his essential argument was that Balmer isn't stupid enough to get caught. Here's my take. Balmer or LAC reps told Kawhis uncle they would get him extra money to offset CA personal income taxes so Kawhi would get the same as he would if he signed with a team in a low or no tax state. To do so, Uncle Dennis should set up an LLC and tell Aspiration.
Here's where the scheme falls apart. Uncle Dennis named the team KL2 Aspire. The big reason this got caught by Pablo Torre was because of this ridiculous name. Any other name and there's a possibility no one looks deeper. No one in LAC wanted anything to do with this part of the deal and no one at Aspire really cared about this getting back at them as there's nothing illegal about the contract. The fact that multiple people in Aspire knew it was to skirt the nba salary tax and even after the company went down kept their mouths shut, shows you that as far as they were concerned there wasn't anything wrong.
Owners meeting next week. Balmer better be prepared to come in with an offer to the other 29 teams.
And don't forget, Knicks had 50 million in cap space that summer of 2021!
