I could only speculate but Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of Softbank expressed his disappointment in the sprint stock price and stated it was way undervalued and said Softbank is all in with Sprint.
Shorts truly believed Son would dump Sprint and when they didnt....the battle began.
They are up to something and I believe they are going to drop a whammy on the shorts.
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