JMaster5K wrote:JMaster5K wrote:JeffFosters wrote:
Thank Christ this didn’t happen. I imagine one of Portis or Cannaughton would’ve been rerouted elsewhere, but yikes.ScootMcGroot wrote:
If this guy a legit NBA writer?.... his X account has been around since 2016, but it says he's written for ESPN,.. the only Sean Wright I can find in their articles,.. was an intern, but didn't write for them? Some of his takes (over the years) seem like the bot takes that seem to be coming up all over the place these days?....
But I know I don't have the knowledge of these guys,.. or the resources that you do.
Also couldn't find any mention of this anywhere else,... and us trading in division, with the Bucks,.. would have gotten someone's attention?
When I try to look him up via Depaul,... these come up:
Sean Wright: There is a controversy surrounding a Twitter user named Sean Wright who claims to be a journalist reporting on the Milwaukee Bucks, but there is no credible proof of his existence or his credentials. He is suspected of using a stock image for his profile picture, and his account seems to have been created recently.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MkeBucks/comments/oxwdao/comment/h7p5y53/
Apparently,... his headshot is a stock photo (evidence is on the reddit page),... and the only stories that can be verified are uncredited redirects from publicly published stories. - His NItter page claims the stock photo is him,... but that he was paid to be a 'stock photo' for other uses.
He does seem to have an extensive background on Nitter?...
The book on his NItter page,... isn't listed by New York Times best seller list,... nor is he identified as a NYT BS list author, can't find any reference for it on any of the current or historical publishing records, including the referenced publisher Scholastic? This isn't my area,.. so it could exist,... but it doesn't show up easily to normal research methods.
Getting kinda sad,.. when you have to spend more time researching the bylines,.. than the players or the teams,...
If Silver actually wanted to do something to help the game, the players, the teams, & the fans,... he would find a way to do something about this? I mean, they are all using the league symbols, NBA. But yeah,.. he more interested in doing something that, in his own mind, will secure his legacy (visibility) for generations,.... just my opinion.
Great find.
Also, whenever I see someone that wrote “Featured on”, I generally view them as fake as that means almost nothing specific. And he retweets the likes of Steve Kyler, a known bad “newsbreaker”?
I never put stock in him to begin with. Let alone after Bucks fans seem to have him as a fake.
Also, he doesn’t seem to cultivate his Twitter except around transaction series. No other writings. No beat work. Goes silent for months or a year at a time. Pretty sketchy.
But it's still a BB conversation,... which at least for me is a good thing.