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#KawhiLeonard : Accomplished player, Master Con Artist. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  So earlier this morning I had talked about the Nbas year long
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  investigation into the Clippers for Sugar Ranger salary cap and
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  obviously now aftermath of it all.
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  But, and I actually apologize for this, I didn't focus on
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  those specifically on the key card and all this.
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  And that's quite one now. Trust me, I already got in the
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  the organization part Steve Bomber, how his image, and
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  rightfully so, has been tarnished.
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  But let's not forget the guy in the middle of all this, and I'm
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  about to explain that right now. So the Kawhi Leonard when I
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  mentioned earlier that $700,000 fine that the rig imposed in as
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  far as you know restitution, normally I don't agree with
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  Steven Smith on many sports topics outside of, you know,
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  other things that you playing. So if that's not sports related,
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  I agree with him on those. But as far as you know what his
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  thoughts have been about Kawhi Leonard since he was a Clipper,
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  I mostly agree and I certainly agree with what he said.
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  Just I'm so for who I thought did a great job in the
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  investigation aspect of it. He let Kawhi get off way too
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  easy. Now, mind you, we're not talking
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  about the likes of Bond, James and Steph Curry, not of those
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  kinds of count, but players. And look, even though Kawhi win,
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  we know where he is as a player. He's also one of the more aloof
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  players in sports history. I mean, we're talking about a
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  guy that never really promotes the game of basketball, doesn't
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  say anything to the media and essentially just keeps himself.
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  But this right here from yesterday's room from the NBA,
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  along with the Players Association, makes us all look
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  at Kawhi Leonard largely different.
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  So look, if you've known about the guy from his uncle and one
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  time business partner Dennis Robinson, it's no secret that
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  the ladder has had a shady way of doing things for a while.
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  While it was with the San Antonio Spurs, the Raptors, and
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  that with the Clippers, it always seems as if Robinson has
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  only gender as far as what he wanted for Kawhi.
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  Now I don't blame Kawhi to an extent for wanting nothing to do
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  with his uncle as far as you know that.
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  But that does not give Kawhi Leonard a pass for essentially
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  knowing about. As far as what I meant.
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  See what makes it so bad for Leonard to think of this for a
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  moment. Over 40% of regular season games
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  miss, 30% playoff games. Three playoff series wins, one
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  conference finals appearance, several NBA Finals appearances.
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  And if you really combine the salary from the Clippers along
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  with the off court endorsements, the guy is right to vote nearly
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  350 million from that in that organization.
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  And unfortunately, you can't really say how once again, not
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  only the Clippers got their own way of how they once again
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  proven to be the most end up trying some professional sports,
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  but it's what Leonard did throughout his seven years there
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  that might be in a lot of ways completely unforgivable.
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  Look, we all know about the trade from several years ago.
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  You know, when the Clippers traded essentially a mansion to
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  get Paul George. I already discussed how that has
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  worked out for the Thunder. But now if you look at this.
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  And I understand when Sean Swan said that look and Silver could
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  have modified his original, you know, stance on Len as far as
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  the punishment for him. But go back and look through
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  Leonard's new agent, what he said yesterday, integrity and
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  honor for the game is something that I put myself in high
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  regard. But wait, it gets worse.
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  So not only did he say that, he also said I take full
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  responsibility for the last of judgment by the people in my
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  inner circle and that I am looking forward to going back to
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  Toronto and being given a clean slate.
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  Now think about that for a moment.
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  Integrity and respect for the game is something that I take
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  pride in and that I take full responsibility for the lapses of
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  judgment by those in my inner circle.
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  Now notice he never named himself in all this.
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  Now you can speculate whether or not he supposedly knew about all
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  of this. And then you say nothing to
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  leave or someone else in the circle that hey, maybe we should
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  kind of tone it down. Whatever you may look at, it
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  sounds to me like a guy that and I really don't want to use to
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  swear but has the attitude in the thought process of a full
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  blown narcissist and work. Earlier I had talked about how
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  the clip is going to be set up to fail in the next decade
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  because of their incompetence as an organization, but koalas
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  shouldn't be able to escape them all.
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  Matter of fact, I thought that the league shouldn't be told and
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  avoided the move to the Raptors, which according to sharps will
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  take place because I was said to Kawhi winner if I was making
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  that ruling. Oh, you don't get to escape, you
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  don't get to wash your hands and all this and not take
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  accountability. So we're gonna avoid this trade
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  that we Co signed? Which one?
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  And you're gonna stay in LA for the foreseeable future because
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  it's like in a way the league essentially saying that while we
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  could have a hand in forwarding the trade, we really can't
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  because of the prior investigation that we were doing
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  involving Leonard, Steve Ballmer and the Shay off the court
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  endorsement deal that now it came first.
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  So the trade's going to happen. Although if I were making the
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  ruling, I would have said Koi Leonard, you're not going to
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  Toronto, you're staying in the club was ordinance.
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  While there was absolutely no denying that Leonard is a great
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  player when healthy, the problem is no other athlete in any
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  professional sport would've gone away with white heat.
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  Although you can say that, well, he's one of the great defensive
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  players for his sailor. 2 championships, 2 finals, every
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  piece, blah blah blah. Doesn't matter.
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  The reality is Kawhi Leonard cemented himself as the biggest
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  carnalist snake and you can essentially say thief in NBA
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  history. And if you wanna say sports
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  history, I'm willing to go along.
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  Because what he was able to do in his seven years with the
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  Clippers might not ever be matched, stemming from when he
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  joined the muscle free agent in 2019 to what the Clippers gave
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  up to keep him with the organization.
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  For him, missing games, practices being carried hand and
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  foot down. Oh, and not to mention the fact
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  that he didn't deliver a championship and found ways to
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  miss, you know, practices and games that had nothing to do
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  with injury. Like I said, he might be the
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  only athlete in any professional sport that could have gone away.
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  But here's where, unfortunately, the Last stand Packer Kawhi
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  Leonard probably will never be forgotten.
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  And nor sure it makes you wonder, was the NBA2 lenient on
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  him? Just supposed to what they were
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  on the Clipper side. You can say that and I wouldn't
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  argue it. But the problem that the sitters
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  is what some people want to know.
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  What was it that Kawhi knew but kept quiet about to essentially
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  save us all skin? You see, while I understand that
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  statement from this new agent yesterday, to me, there's still
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  more that we don't really know. Because in a way, you can say he
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  was essentially trying to cover his tracks to make himself look
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  good. That's the bear.
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  But think about from this perspective, whenever
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  organizations talk contracts with a player and longer
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  representative, the Hatch would been some under the table
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  dialogue that happened that nobody knew about.
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  In about 1 case, you would think that Dennis Robinson and his
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  uncle slash former business partner would have been
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  involved. But where I'm interested in this
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  thing, let's say, you know, just throwing this out.
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  What if Robinson came forward out of the blue one day, you
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  know, to your Adam Silver or the whoever he said.
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  I'm not going to suffer for this alone.
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  My nephew Kawhi and who just happened to be my one time
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  business partner. Or do I have something to tell
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  you? What if that would actually
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  happen? How do you think the NBA would
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  react when they open a new investigation or Leonard solely?
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  And if they, what ramifications would come out?
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  It's hard to say, 'cause you know, as Sean Swan, you said
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  nothing of that will suffice. But let's just do a scenario
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  like that. I can pretty much guess how that
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  would go in the end. Koala, you know, for his way for
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  players he has, he's also the biggest con artist in sports
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  history because not only did he at one point put the Clippers in
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  a bad position when he joined them as free agent, but he's now
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  leaving them in a even worse position because he's going to
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  be in Toronto. Not to mention the fact he's
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  going to get a contract extension from the Raptors.
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  But I'm not going to go now. Yes, the Clippers have to own up
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  to what they did, no doubt. But the crown jewel in all this
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  is 1 he in A7 year time with that organization basically was
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  a part of the two infamous happenings in that franchise.
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  And that's what then that would be more instability and an
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  uncertain future. So with regardless that he's a
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  great player, he has a fish with someone himself as one of the
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  biggest con artists and scammers in sports history.