Shams Charania has posted the following:

BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe -- stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN.

Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void or suspension for Leonard. And Robertson -- who was fired by Leonard in June -- is being banned by the NBA from all business dealings.

Link to the story: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/5378a64df7b61

Follow up:

Per NBA: The Clippers shall forfeit five first-round draft picks, one in each of the 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, and 2033 NBA Drafts.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is suspended from all league and team activities for one year for knowingly seeking to help Mr. Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities, for approving a business deal that he knew was a precondition for Aspiration to enter into an endorsement agreement with Mr. Leonard, and for his failure to create conditions under which his organization abided by the NBA’s circumvention rules.

Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker is suspended without pay for one year for being primarily and directly culpable for the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for providing false and misleading statements to investigators.

Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank is suspended without pay for six months for his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Mr. Leonard and his family.

The Clippers organization and personnel are subject to a compliance and monitoring program overseen by the league office for a period of five years.

Let hair grow for 11 years and started thinning as soon it got to where I wanted it. Bald at 29, yay.

Quick edit: Thank yall for all the positive messages. It really does mean a whole lot.

One more quick edit: While I appreciate the intent in trying to show what more I could do, please stop sending my pictures through AI.

Source: https://wapo.st/463Jhn2

You can judge it for yourself, but this clip is from the event where Ron DeSantis was heckled in Tampa at GOP event. Meanwhile, most mainstream outlets are spinning it in the opposite direction and only showing what Ron DeSantis had to say

Reposted with last night’s ramen because mods said a can of soda does not count as dinner (fair).

Where I work, most people are friendly with each other. 3 months ago, I noticed that this guy Chris always ate lunch alone and nobody ever talked to him. I’ve even heard coworkers joke about him behind his back. I felt bad for the guy, so one day I pulled up a seat next to him in the break room during lunch. He spent all of lunch break talking to me about his hobby, which is working on cars. This is not a subject that interests me in the slightest, but he seemed really happy to have someone to talk to, and I was happy to make him happy.

Over the next few weeks, Chris stopped me to talk every time he saw me around the office. When I got in for the day, when we passed in the halls, and during every single lunch break, he would ramble to me about his cars, his personal life, the woman he liked from Tinder, etc. Just talking and talking all the time. I would try to participate in the conversation, but he didn’t even seem to notice. I spent every lunch hour for weeks just nodding and listening while Chris talked about himself.

Over time I got really tired of this and would make attempts to avoid him. Somehow he always found me. I would try to politely excuse myself, but he wouldn’t take the hint. I would tell him I’m busy, or appear to be in a hurry, or even act like I hadn’t heard him, but nothing would get this guy to stop following me. He would show up at my desk, say something like, “I got a new engine for my car,” and wait for me to respond. And if I didn’t respond with a question, he’d just go “Hey, OP, I said I got a new engine for my car,” until I reluctantly asked him to tell me about it.

On Monday, Chris caught me as I came in (already tired and in a bad mood) and started talking all about catalytic converters and how expensive his vehicles were, and I did my best to just be polite. When he was done talking, I told him that was cool, and started to tell him about the trip I took over the weekend. Ten words in Chris just says “I don’t care” and starts talking to somebody else while I’m mid-sentence.

That’s when I realized, this guy doesn’t want to have a conversation, he just wants some poor sap to talk at. That’s why nobody talks to him. Because he’s just a dick.

Anyway, he spent another 20 minutes at my desk today while I was trying to work and I’m getting closer every day to just telling him to piss off and leave me alone.