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Pablo Torre

Host & Executive Editor, Meadowlark Media · 1 appearance on the record.

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Pablo Torre produces and hosts the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out with Meadowlark Media. He previously served as a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, co-hosted ESPN's High Noon, and authored the Sports Illustrated exposé How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke.

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4 supported 5 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 9 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Pablo argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer used four companies to funnel money to Kawhi Leonard
“And I say that because, according to the NBA's investigation and my own, this was not merely a scheme that he ran to funnel money with one company aspiration. He did it with four. He did it with the scoreboard manufacturer, multi-million dollar deal for Kawhi …”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 7:23 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
72% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Pablo Torre on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Pablo Torre said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Torre: Kawhi Leonard was contracted for $48M from Aspiration to do nothing
“And what they say and what they provide in the tonnage of all the reporting I did for months, seven months before we came out with part one of the series one year ago today, was documentation that attested to the fact that Kawhi Leonard was paid According to t…”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 4:19 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer used four companies to funnel money to Kawhi Leonard
“And I say that because, according to the NBA's investigation and my own, this was not merely a scheme that he ran to funnel money with one company aspiration. He did it with four. He did it with the scoreboard manufacturer, multi-million dollar deal for Kawhi …”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 7:23 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Supported
Torre: Ballmer Created Fake Consulting Agreements to Pay Kawhi Leonard
“What they really did was they created fake jobs for Kawhi Leonard and fake consulting agreements, consulting fees for the companies.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 10:42 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Partly supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer threatened NBA Commissioner Adam Silver with litigation by name
“He has now threatened personally with litigation Adam Silver by name in a letter through his lawyers.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 16:00 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Partly supported
Torre: NBA Hit Steve Ballmer With Largest Owner Sanction in American Sports History
“This was the biggest punishment for an owner in the history of, I think, American professional sports, and the NBA took five first-round picks, which is the most you could imagine. They took thirty million dollars, which is a rounding error, of course, for Bal…”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 12:08 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Opinion
Torre: NBA Settled With Kawhi Leonard to Box Steve Ballmer Out of Arbitration
“When Kawhi Leonard got a slap on the wrist, only 700,000 dollars, no suspension, no voiding of the contract, no nothing. He agreed to a settlement that was quite favorable, and the question was, why? Well, Kawhi Leonard's settlement meant that the arbitration …”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 13:58 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2029
Torre: The Los Angeles Clippers will not sell for $10 billion or more
“My point being that they're not gonna get 12 and a half, they're not gonna get 10”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 18:19 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer Faces Personal Civil Fraud Lawsuit by 11 Aspiration Investors
“So there are, there's also a civil suit happening in LA court against Steve Ballmer personally by 11 aspiration investors about fraud.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 20:33 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Supported
Torre: Aspiration co-founder Joe Sanberg is serving 14 years for fraud
“The co-founder, Joe Sandberg, is now, by the way, serving 14 years in federal prison for fraud”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 4:02 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Insight
Torre: Sports franchise valuations have decoupled from revenue due to scarcity
“We're just at a place in sports where the scarcity is so clear that these are detached valuations from revenue.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 17:43 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Partly supported
Torre: Mark Cuban Apologized on Twitter Over Ballmer Story
“There's an, so I've debated on my show literally Mark Cuban about this whole story before it became obvious what this was, and I appreciate the apology he gave me on Twitter yesterday.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 10:05 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
Assertion Partly supported
Torre: Aspiration signed a $300M jersey patch deal with the Clippers
“They just signed a deal, three hundred million dollars, to be the jersey patch sponsor of Los Angeles Clippers.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 2:30 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal Sep 3, 2026 15m
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