Sep 8, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 15 segments
Verno and Jacoby return as they discuss the NBA’s punishment on the Clippers for circumventing the salary cap with Kawhi Leonard. They then discuss Amen Thompson’s contract extension, Ben Simmons’s…
Chris VernonHost
Dave JacobyHost
We've got to start because we were not on last week as the Clippers penalties dropped.
I think everybody, when the first tweet came down of the penalties, there was a collective, whoa, because I think the longer it dragged on, the more we kind of thought, hey, they're going to take a plea deal here.
There's already that reporting on the ESPN side that was saying that they had talked to each other and that I guess the lawyers had been in communication.
So that gave us the impression at least a few weeks prior that, okay, they're going to take a plea deal on this thing.
They're going to say, hey, look, We didn't know, but we kind of knew and we understand the way this looks for the league or whatever.
The first thing is, regarding the absolute defiance, almost every podcast I read or article I read about this, it was funny.
Reporters in many cases became the main characters in talking about this, that many of them have relationships with Clippers brass or people within the Clippers.
It was like one after another, people saying their relationships got burned, they were talked down to, they were condescended upon.
And it was like all the people saying, in privately, they were defiant to the people covering the story, right? That the Clippers, like, it wasn't just like to the league.
It was like, if you were a reporter and you asked the people from the Clippers about this, it was never like a ho-hum or a, I don't want to talk about that, you know? It was a, no, we did not do this.
And there was like a shadow campaign going along saying, to the reporters and so shout out to all the reporters with mega hurt feelings because it seems as if they had had good relationships with the Clippers but the Clippers like burned every bridge like along the way of this they got no friends anymore it doesn't seem like because it seems like reporters feel like burned for the fact that they even tried to talk about this but let's get into the big ones I want to get your thoughts on this all right Is this just another example in the long lines of examples, whether it is crimes or it is sports or it is anything, that the best chance you have is to just say you're sorry when you've already been caught?
Because, you know, and that's sort of what their sort of philosophy felt like it was because there was no true smoking, smoking gun.
If you read the report, you know, you read all of the report and there's no sort of like truly damning damning piece of information I mean the Lawrence Franks
We've got to start because we were not on last week as the Clippers penalties dropped.
I think everybody, when the first tweet came down of the penalties, there was a collective, whoa, because I think the longer it dragged on, the more we kind of thought, hey, they're going to take a plea deal here.
There's already that reporting on the ESPN side that was saying that they had talked to each other and that I guess the lawyers had been in communication.
So that gave us the impression at least a few weeks prior that, okay, they're going to take a plea deal on this thing.
They're going to say, hey, look, We didn't know, but we kind of knew and we understand the way this looks for the league or whatever.
The first thing is, regarding the absolute defiance, almost every podcast I read or article I read about this, it was funny.
Reporters in many cases became the main characters in talking about this, that many of them have relationships with Clippers brass or people within the Clippers.
It was like one after another, people saying their relationships got burned, they were talked down to, they were condescended upon.
And it was like all the people saying, in privately, they were defiant to the people covering the story, right? That the Clippers, like, it wasn't just like to the league.
It was like, if you were a reporter and you asked the people from the Clippers about this, it was never like a ho-hum or a, I don't want to talk about that, you know? It was a, no, we did not do this.
And there was like a shadow campaign going along saying, to the reporters and so shout out to all the reporters with mega hurt feelings because it seems as if they had had good relationships with the Clippers but the Clippers like burned every bridge like along the way of this they got no friends anymore it doesn't seem like because it seems like reporters feel like burned for the fact that they even tried to talk about this but let's get into the big ones I want to get your thoughts on this all right Is this just another example in the long lines of examples, whether it is crimes or it is sports or it is anything, that the best chance you have is to just say you're sorry when you've already been caught?
Because, you know, and that's sort of what their sort of philosophy felt like it was because there was no true smoking, smoking gun.
If you read the report, you know, you read all of the report and there's no sort of like truly damning damning piece of information I mean the Lawrence Franks
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