Totally fake. See this thread: http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=87702.msg2187735#msg2187735
not gonna lie, your "plug game" (if that's even a thing) is very strong. but i agree with what you're saying. not true at all.
...more reliable than the nonsense poor man's CelticsThug blog this fake rumor came from.
Who's CelticsThug? I've seen that name, and CROTOR, on here recently. Are they people who used to post on here?
It was just some attention-seeker back like a decade ago that claimed to be an "insider" and have "inside information". So he'd create a bunch of fake rumors and people ate it up even though a few of us could tell he was entirely full of crap and he had no track record of ever being right. My memory is a little hazy, but I think it might have spread to RealGM as well. That kind of riff raff wasn't acceptable here, so CelticsThug was banned. I think he had a crappy blog at some point. My guess is he's probably still around using a different name. I forget how CROTOR started... i think someone listed CROTOR as a source for a rumor. Maybe it was a typo... maybe it stood for something... maybe it was just a random word... but it's become the GINO of this forum in regards to nonsense sources.
RealGM's forums are poorly moderated and they continue to let fools like CelticsThug come up with fake rumors. There's a few of them in the RealGM Celtics forum that continue to claim to have inside information. The fanboys in those forums allow it to continue, because they love embracing any juicy "Weekly World News" rumor they can get a taste of. They treat these fake insiders like gods even though none of them have any track record of success aside from maybe a logical guess or two. The moderators can't verify any of them actual have inside sources, but they actively discourage people from calling out the fake insiders. In the past year, several garbage blogs like Sportasrageous and inquistr have made completely fabricated rumors more mainstream. They know that folks will use Google news search to find rumors about their favorite players/teams, so they just churn out daily fake rumors about basically any major player with hopes of getting clicks and ad revenue. Problem is, these articles then spread on twitter and facebook... and after it gains enough steam, someone legitimate might comment on it in a podcast, radio show... or in the case of Scal, unfortunately even a telecast.
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