How did millions travel from the Clippers to Aspiration to Kawhi Leonard? Amin Elhassan and David Samson join Pablo — live onstage at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, right where Adam Silver was just sitting — to examine new and extremely credible evidence.

Previously on PTFO:

• Part I: The Silent Superstar and the Rotten Apple Tree

• Part II: An Argument with Mark Cuban

• Part III: The Mystery Investor, the No-Show Payday and the "Smoking Gun"

• Part IV: Steve Ballmer, the Other Cuban and the $118 Million Infusion

• Part V: Steve Ballmer's "Inconceivable" Donation, the $20 Million Guarantee and a Head on a Spike

• Part VI: An IRL Showdown with Mark Cuban

• Part VII: The Briefcase, Ballmer's Social Network and Aspiration's House of Cards

• Part VIII: Uncle Dennis, Ballmer's $50 Million Sprint and the Side Deal That Wouldn't Die

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(Pablo Torre Finds Out is independently produced by Meadowlark Media and distributed by The Athletic. The views, research and reporting expressed in this episode are solely those of Pablo Torre Finds Out and do not reflect the work or editorial input of The Athletic or its journalists.)

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Is A.I. gonna boom, bust or just become Excel? And how screwed are we either way? Plus: Peyton Manning, Lamar Jackson, Geraldo Rivera's vault, a young Tim Pawlenty, vibe-coding NFL scouts... and Filipino Jell-O. 

Further content:

• "A.I. as Normal Technology" (Columbia University)

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

• "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" (Citrini Research)

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

• "Nobody Knows Anything" (Derek Thompson)

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/nobody-knows-anything

• "This Is How the A.I. Bubble Will Pop" (Derek Thompson)

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-will-pop

• "Fear of A.I. Eliminating Jobs Makes Its Way to Football (Mike Florio)

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/fear-of-ai-eliminating-jobs-makes-its-way-to-football

• Previously on PTFO: How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Sports, with Daryl Morey and Sendhil Mullainathan

• Subscribe to "The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny"

• Subscribe to "Plain English with Derek Thompson"

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Sports and comedy are America's prisms for progress, allegedly. But this queer comedian from SEC football country can smell the lies. In the locker rooms of the NFL and the NBA. In the homoeroticism of Joe Rogan's world. And in the boxes of manliness we put up all around us, more than ever. Plus: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Caleb Williams, Derek Jeter, Timothée Chalamet, RFK Jr., butt-scouting... and the Cerebro of hook-up apps.

• Watch Jay Jurden's Stand-Up Special "Yes, Ma'am"

• Get Tickets to See Jay Jurden Live

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America's podcast guest is a little burned-out. And yet the do-it-all comedian turned method unc is also a bard of modern content creation. So Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Pablo, on-stage at On Air Fest, to make sense of working under a hostile merger, while persevering the algorithm, learning from live-streamers and still focusing on himself enough to tell jokes as the chef intended — all without becoming part of somebody else's propaganda. Plus: Reading Rainbow, Street Fighter, the Dagobah system, funeral-home police scanners, murdering the defendants of slavemasters... and punching children in the face.

• Watch "Have I Got News for You" with Roy Wood Jr.

• Watch the "Lonely Flowers" Stand-Up Special

• Read "The Man of Many Fathers" Memoir

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As Terry Rozier and Co. return to court, Pablo spans the globe — and the nether regions of the basketball internet — to reveal the unnamed player who turned a cup of coffee into the NBA's worst nightmare. Amin Elhassan helps connect government clues to red flags, obscure movie references to entourage Instagram posts... and one really dirty recruiting trip to a new guarantee in the economy of legalized gambling.

Previously on PTFO:

• Part One: Moose, the Money and a Garbage-Time God

• Part Two: Hoopfellas

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• Subscribe to "Basketball Illuminati" with Amin Elhassan

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Did the Olympics just restore our faith in humanity? Even though America is still the bad guy? Even though penis injections? And even if we think A.I. might just be 60 Filipino guys? Plus: Greased Lightnin', flop sweat, deposition water bottles, the Waymo of cash registers, the ephemera of pickup basketball... and other dick-related news.

Further content:

• "I Hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI — and It Only Took 20 minutes" (Thomas Germain)

• Previously on PTFO: We Expose a Crotch Conspiracy Rocking the Olympics

• Subscribe to "Casuals with Katie Nolan"

• Listen to "Sorry for Your Loss" by Michael Cruz Kayne

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Is the MLBPA screwed because its (outgoing) leader allegedly had an affair with his sister-in-law? Is a salary cap a red herring? How much does winning a Super Bowl boost the valuation of the Seahawks? And can we ever stop tanking? John Skipper and David Samson return for our semi-regular panel on sports business — and taking down Big Pharma.

• Subscribe to "Nothing Personal with David Samson"

• Previously on PTFO: We Followed the Money in the NFL Union Scandal. So Did the F

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It was a pickup game for the ages. Finally, former Miami Heat center — and current DJ — Rony Seikaly opens up to correspondent Foster Kamer about his shocking decision to do what nobody in the NBA would, in the midst of HIV/AIDS paranoia. And how Seikaly was fated to become the person that Magic Johnson credits with changing his life.

• Subscribe to Foster Kamer's Substack

• Listen to "Basketball History 101" with Rick Loayza 

"Lose Your Love" (with Nico de Andrea), "Carrot Cake (Radio Edit)" and "Out of Time (Original Mix)" produced and performed by Rony Seikaly; used with permission by Rony Seikaly. 

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He used his instinctual superpower to sign an all-star roster of everyone from Stone Temple Pilots and Katy Perry to, yes, Kid Rock. Now, record executive Jason Flom (with a little help from the spirit of Muhammad Ali) is performing a different kind of miracle, with his obsession to get innocent people out of prison. This is why the unbroken, indomitable grace of Charles Flores is far from alone inside our shocking American system — and how you can help, too.

• Sign the petition to stop the execution of Charles Flores

• Previously on PTFO: We Visited Death Row for the Super Bowl. You Can Help Save This Fan's Life.

• Subscribe to "Wrongful Conviction" with Jason Flom

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What does the death of The Washington Post sports section mean for the future of sports, journalism and propaganda? Was "Melania" a movie — or crypto? And how does LeBron guarantee his story now? Plus: Tony Kornheiser, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nuke LaLoosh, New Yorker clickbait, Carmelite nuns, the glue of commonality... and the uselessness of despair.

Further content:

• "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight" (David Remnick)

• "The Crackin', Shakin', Breakin' Sounds" (Nat Hentoff, 1964)

• "A Day with the Duke" (Whitney Balliett, 1970)

• Subscribe to "The New Yorker Radio Hour"

• Read "King of the World"

• Watch "O.J.: Made in America"

Previously on PTFO:

• The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman (Finally) Speaks

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