I don't want stuff like this getting overly personal or out of hand, so lets just take the rumor with whatever grain of salt you want
to the original poster, if you could give us some context as to how your friend would know this information (and I'm talking about more than just following the league like the rest of us) then that would lend some credibility to your claims
otherwise, I suggest that if people don't believe this rumor, then it serves little purpose to say so more than once - it has been pointed out that this is a hard-to-believe rumor (at best) - lets leave it at that
I want people with legit rumors to feel comfortable sharing them here. On the other hand, I support people (POLITELY) challenging rumors that seem too outlandish because that might keep people from blatantly making stuff up.
thanks everyone
Hobbs and anyone else who has been upset to their core by my post, allow me to enlighten you on the definition of a RUMOR
"an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern"
This is what a rumor is, and what follows is how i heard of the rumor that has upset you so...
Hobbs will tell you the following is a lie but here goes...
we're driving in boston to eat in the north end and then hit some bars (my friends birthday, we ate at Limoncellos, food was incredible but they only serve three kinds of beers, i had an amstell). I said "hey have you heard the latest rumors", and by that i meant the rumors about danny wanting to get into the top 5 of the lottery and he's like ya, wade, I know. Obviously i was like what are you talking about and he said he heard it on the radio. I didn't even ask if it was eei, bc you just assume he's talking about eei. I posted this pretty much first thing this morning, fully expecting that many many others here would have heard what he was refering to and that nobody had posted it yet.
This obviously deserves significant ridicule, and accusations that i am dishonest and made it up. It's like, wow. now i remember why i quit coming here for the last 2 years. i just don't get the instant hostility. i didn't think for one second this would happen, i just assumed that i hadn't caught it on eei. I plan on calling him later to ask which station he heard it on and when. he said they were talking about an expanded phx suns trades too, besides the old amare stuff, just a different version that i hadn't heard before, as well as a couple shaq rumors, so it sounded to me like there was some good radio talk going on.
the personal attacks and everything else are just so pathetic, its rumors. go back again and read the definition, and if your still angy and upset then you should get some Jesus in your life, seriously.
Yeah, geeze, I don't see why people are getting so excited. You just posted a rumor from a clearly credible source.
I mean, I hear really interesting rumors from credible sources all the time, like Danny Ainge's best friend in the whole world, who I met by accident in McDonald's. You should have heard the wonderful rumors he told me! Gosh, he was a really interesting guy...he wore a tattered trench coat, had a gold tooth, a glass eye, and a thick mustache. I could tell he knew what he was talking about - his voice was so steady and gritty, he totally couldn't have been lying! He said Danny calls him each and every night to tell him about his latest plans for the Celtics. Who would have thunk it? Danny Ainge has the coolest friends.
Anybody who gets on your case for posting rumors which clearly could be true in some strange parallel universe credited to an unnamed "friend" who is obviously very reliable since he is your friend is obviously just a completely unreasonable jerk who is attacking you for no good reason at all.
