This is actually kind of irritating to watch spread live.
Idiot on RealGm makes up a rumor... some twitter trolls pile on pretending to have similar information... some obscure blog runs with it... a slightly bigger blog runs with that... some garbage media types who don't vet their sources run with it... other media types quote the garbage media types... suddenly it's appearing on CelticsBlog, Yahoo, Sporting News, etc. Meanwhile, the idiot who made up the rumor is cackling his head off. Trust me, I get it... I once made up something that ended up on Good Morning America. But when you're not in on the joke, it's annoying to watch in real-time.
ANyways, a trade for Blake makes some sense. Bill Simmons has been calling this the wildcard trade for months. I'm not surprised this is the fake rumor people are running with. I wouldn't be entirely shocked if something actually happened.
I wonder how much your thoughts would change if this were the Sixers. You would go on and on about how Hinkie's plan of tanking/accumulating picks was ingenious.
BTW...Mannix just chimed in so...yeah
There's a difference between Steve Bulpett saying, "According to my sources, the player Danny Ainge was trying to acquire at the deadline was Jahlil Okafor"...
And... "I hear we are going to make a big move... i read it on a website that got it from a blog that got it from a smaller blog that got it from a twitter account that got it from some troll on a realGM forum who made it up as a joke"
No, the difference is that you're overly optimistic on anything Sixers related, even citing Sixers blogs as souces, yet are pessimistic on everything involving the Celtics. Everyone sees it, man. You're a hypocrite in what you choose to believe.
Yeah ok. If you say so, Ed.
I just tend to give more credit to someone like Steve Bulpett when he claims he has a direct source that tells him something... over some 16 year old fanboy high schooler from Rhode Island who tweets that his "sources" tell him the Celtics are about to sign Durant.
Some of us have talked about this before. What makes a "rumor" a "real rumor" verses a "fake rumor". I guess it's a fine line. The Steve Bulpett's, Marc Stein and Woj's of the world might be making stuff up entirely. A lot of the info is fed from other orgs. Maybe some of it is completely fabricated. Maybe they are no different than the 16 year old Celtic fanboy sitting on his parent's couch making up stuff on RealGm. Maybe both rumors deserve the same amount of respect. Maybe both rumors deserve no respect. It's been debated before. I guess it will be debated again.
Fwiw, Bulpett says: "Sources indicate the Celtics are very much open to major moves, but while situations certainly remain fluid and they have expressed interest in Blake Griffin and Russell Westbrook in the past,
there have been no discussions regarding those players in quite some time."
That's not to say those trades will not still happen. That's the thing about this league... we can all make educated guesses about which stars might be available. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to look at the Bucks roster, see they have multiple SF's and determine they might be open to moving one of Giannis, Parker or Middleton. Blake's problems have been well documented. Same with Cousins. It isn't a massive stretch to imagine one of them being moved. Everyone knows Philly at some point will move one of those bigs... so I'm sure we'll continue to see rumors about it. Just like everyone knows Boston is overloaded with redundant players and doesn't have enough roster spots to fit all of them. You watch Rozier playing well in Summer league and it's not a leap to imagine them moving Marcus Smart for help at a weaker position.
So I guess you just have to ask what is a rumor. If you think every rumor regardless of who makes it up deserves the same amount of attention, I don't blame anyone for getting very excited about this weekend. Personally, I expected nothing to happen until greece666 backed up this rumor. Now I'm on board.
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