Pablo Torre has been one of the main figures mentioned on social media after the NBA delivered its punishment on the Los Angeles Clippers for circumventing the salary cap with Kawhi Leonard.
A development which was first uncovered by Torres about a year ago. While many people doubted his reporting, the NBA's findings have confirmed the investigative journalist's story.
However, in a livestream following the league's announcement, Torre said that "this is not everything", regarding the Clippers case. Now, in an interview with Dan Shanoff of The Athletic, he reveals what question remains unanswered.
"What are the interests of the federal government? The Securities and Exchange Commission is now probing Daktronics, which is a public company. That is one of the four entities that partnered with the Clippers in this deeply elaborate cap-circumvention scheme," Torre said.
"The federal government has powers that not even the NBA has. Certainly, I do not have the leverage that either of those entities has, in a couple of key ways. So if you are the SEC or the Department of Justice, and you see what this story was, what is interesting to you? And I think that is a question that we have only begun to answer."
Torre answers why the public is so interested in this story
Torre was asked why regular people have an appetite for more on this story and he said that the public are happy to see rich people have accountability.
"The sensation that I have felt personally and have felt in our audience is that people have been almost delighted that maybe we can hold the richest people in the world to something resembling a standard of accountability," he explained.
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."