Larry Tanenbaum

And before any trade goes through, according to Pablo, you kinda need a board of governor.

Larry Tanenbaum forever was the Raptors board of governor.

Like, this, this is the type of person we're talking about.

So right now, next in line, with, uh, with Steve Ballmer suspended, and Laurence Frank suspended, and, and Gillian Zucker, their head of business ops, uh, suspended, the next guy on the list is a guy named Dennis Wong, who was an investor in Aspiration, one of the companies, the now bankrupt company, who had a deal with Kawhi.

Mm-hmm

... about buying out Larry Tanenbaum for the remainder of MLSE and now having this sports Goliath with the Blue Jays, Leafs, Raptors, TFC, and, uh, other assorted clubs.

It kind of looks like a cash grab on our part.

It kind of looks like we're asking all these consumers from coast to coast to help finance our, our big bet on MLSE.

Kawhi was there.

Larry Tanenbaum was there, just chilling, watching the Raptors.

They ...

No one ever thought this would go through.

... with the Raptors and, and, um, with the Raptors and Maple Leafs, but, you know, probably would've made a few more bucks if they held on longer.

Uh, but then you had, uh, Larry Tanenbaum sold basically 20% of his equity in, in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to OMERS, uh, another pension fund in Ontario.

Um, and, and so I, I think it's these pension funds are all looking at alternative assets, right? It's, it's part of putting where do we put 5% of our funds.

Hmm.

No, that's fair.

I, I, I just get kind of a little bit cynical about it when you hear people- Like Larry Tanenbaum.

You know, Larry Tanenbaum, when he was bidding adieu to Leafs Nation, when he, you know, the, the announcement came out that, you know, his stake in the team was being liquidated, you know, and Rogers was taking 100% control.

You know, used that whole, that whole phrase that gets used by the proprietors of a lot of these organizations, especially heritage franchises, which is, "The Leafs are a public trust."

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Yeah, I do find that interesting.

And, and l- I, I enjoyed Larry Tanenbaum basically saying, "You don't wanna do this with me? Fine."

Yeah.

"I'll leave.

And on top of that, the other part of this is that this has to be the only investigation where both sides want this to go away.

Because this all started because apparently the Raptors, the man who used to own the Raptors, Larry Tanenbaum, wanted to look into this, and this is how it all started.

Well, why didn't Kawhi Leonard stay in Toronto? Larry Tanenbaum doesn't have anything to do with this anymore, and Kawhi Leonard's back in Toronto.

But- So they wa- both sides want this to be over, but at the same time, if you're a player, like we played last week, Draymond Green, this is, everyone's gonna do this.

This, this is the way that it goes.

This is all I'm saying.

No, not going to jail, but Uncle Dennis is gonna be, not, uh, be available to be affiliated with the NBA anymore.

So that was the first thing that came up, and then Larry Tanenbaum, the then CEO of the Raptors, part of the MLSE group, he brought that up to the NBA, and he was actually gonna be one of the, uh, governors that was gonna make this decision in tandem with Adam Silver.