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Wosny Lambre on Clipper Crime, Nike’s Fall, Selling Sex in 2026
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Wosny Lambre on Clipper Crime, Nike’s Fall, Selling Sex in 2026

Steve Ballmer, Sydney Sweeney, Mike Vrabel

What a discussion we have for all of you. Topics! Include!

  • Why the Clippers’ salary-cap cheating felt like a “victimless crime” only because they failed

  • Wos argues the 2019–20 Clippers really were the NBA’s obvious championship favorite

  • Was Steve Ballmer’s Clippers tenure actually a massive failure?

  • Why today’s sports world increasingly operates on “what can I get away with?”

  • Lane Kiffin and college football cheating

  • The Patriots’ alleged optical-illusion field-goal trick: clever gamesmanship or just cheating?

  • How media relationships — not necessarily money — can buy an NBA owner favorable coverage

  • Nike’s collapse: Wos argues the company sacrificed its brand to please Wall Street

  • Why Sydney Sweeney has cracked the code for selling sex in an increasingly sexless culture

  • Why Sydney Sweeney can seemingly never reach the point of cultural overexposure

  • The class politics behind the backlash to LeBron James’ Polymarket ad

  • Wos’ friends thought the NBC broadcast was going to bring up Dianna Russini

  • Sex, sports media and the fiction that reporters and athletes never become attracted to each other

  • How much face has Mike Vrabel lost?

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