thinktank wrote:Domejandro wrote:It is kinda funny that the confusion over Terance Mann was that his extension was in 2021 and not 2022.
Would’ve been easier on us all to trust the reporting.
Front offices get it wrong, and reporters often get it wrong. Most aren’t students of the CBA, and in a rush to be first, they often report things or create ideas without checking to see if they are legal.
I will say it’s much better than it used to be, both with fans and reporters. A decade ago, I used to email reporters when they would publish something that legally couldn’t happen according to CBA rules. Except maybe for Woj, I don’t think there was a single reporter back then that didn’t get things wrong. Some were grateful I emailed them. Some changed their stories without a word. Some argued with me, trusting their source more than some random internet nerd. But the bottom line was that none of them needed to be experts in the NBA’s CBA to do their main job.
And front offices aren’t perfect either. Don’t make me tell the story about how David Kahn signed Kirilenko to a free agent offer that the NBA front office rejected, because the Wolves didn’t know how much cap space they had! None of here on the board could figure out how he could make the reported offer!
Today, there is a new generation that have a better handle on the CBA. Guys like Dane Moore, Nate Duncan and Keith Smith are going to get things legally correct, and there are far less guys like Locked On Wolves Ben Beekken who know basketball, but don’t understand the CBA. The work from Larry Coon, the popularity of the ESPN Trade Machine and internet discussion boards like this one have created a desire for this knowledge. Bobby Marks is on TV because people want to know. Nowadays, if a reporter gets it wrong, people will notice because we fact-check.
So it’s better now, but I think it’s a mistake to assume national figures, even these days, always get it right.
