The NBA is fully in the midst of smoke-blowing season, when every team likes every players and all assets are available, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the various situations, as relayed by your favorite local and national reporters.
The point is everyone knows everything and nothing at all, sometimes all at the same time, because nearly every single leak has a motive behind it.
It’s a rarely discussed but important reality that Chad Ford of ESPN brought to light in the wake of all of the different reports of the Lakers’ varying levels of interest in taking Lonzo Ball, De’Aaron Fox or Josh Jackson with the No.