Clippers Fallout, Day Two: Who Lied, Why Frank Got Six Months & Pablo's Next Target Is the Dodgers

The punishment was yesterday. The reckoning is tonight.

Grant and John Browner start with the question hanging over everything: the NBA's verdict and ESPN's reporting can't both be true — so who lied? John's journalism monologue ("a journalist is only worth their name") sets up the theory the whole show runs on: Lawrence Frank got six months while everyone above him got a year, and cooperation is the only math that explains it. Beav joins with the 2000 Timberwolves precedent — cooperate and picks come back — and a simple message for the owner: just say you did it. Then, mid-show, Pablo Torre teases his next investigation and it's the Dodgers, complete with the Mark Walter-Trump jersey photo, and John connects the dots out loud: the White House visit, the ring, the Kushner-Iger math that never added up. E Lamb makes his SportsGrid debut off his Sporting Tribune piece on what Clippers fans actually deserve — "the sports arena with bells and whistles" — and argues this is the canary in the coal mine: billionaires don't become billionaires by being altruistic. Plus the Shaq-Jerry West story that says this has been happening since the nineties, the Amen Thompson deal (five years, $200M) and why he's the one Rocket worth paying, and John's closing prediction: if Ballmer loses his fight, he starts telling on everybody.

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Directed & Produced by: Grant Mona

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