[Celtics3178Participant]

I’m a huge NBA fan as most of you and I read a ton or articles. Every now and then I’ll google NBA trade rumors just to see the chatter. I’ve noticed in the past people would post ideas on here and the next day you see pretty much the same points on a sports website. The other day I posted about kawahi to the celts and today 2 articles have been written about kawahi to the celtics. Now I’m not saying I came up with the idea I’m sure tons of others had the same thought but I just wonder if anyone else noticed anything similar. I feel like I see a lot of stuff here then a day or 2 later you’ll see it in other places.

[Memphis MadnessParticipant]

 Yeah. I saw an entire article about LeBron loving narrative and I posted something about LeBron and narratives on here (or at least I think I did). 

 

[Evan_MilbergParticipant]

 *Our

[BallerScriptParticipant]

 It’s not stealing

It’s sparking and further sharing ideas

 

[OhCanada-Participant]

 Well they defenitely wont be stealing our grammar.

[BallerScriptParticipant]

 ^^^^

Amazing

 

[The GoatParticipant]

I’ve been on this site 10 years.  It’s usually the other way round, an article comes out and people rewrite it on here to discuss.

[MopgrassParticipant]

There are also a couple, really low level websites that post trade ideas from fans/commenters and run them as news. Actual writers may read those websites because they also occasionally have legitimate news (usually taken from other news sources). Worse yet, these questionable trade websites quote each other back and forth as sources. I’d be willing to bet both are owned by the same person(s). 

My guess is it works like this: 1) Website A sees an ill-advised fan comment/trade proposal “Luol Deng for Joakim Noah”. 2) They run it as a wouldn’t-this-work-out or tell-us-what-you-think “story.” They give credit to the commenting fan too. 3) Website B picks up the story. Headline: “Deng for Noah Deal in the Works?” You get to the story, it reads “Website A explores the trade scenario of Deng for Noah.” It doesn’t mention a fan came up with it or that there is no source. It’s a full-on trick. 

 These handful of websites go back and forth quoting each other forever. I’d mention which websites, but they don’t deserve your traffic. 

That’s just the part I’ve seen. The conspiiracist in me thinks the original fan comments/trade proposals might actually come from the owners of the websites too. 

 

[SeattleSuperChronicsParticipant]

 Ive heard Jay Williams talk about nbadraft.net on espn.

[Memphis MadnessParticipant]

 ESPN dot com is yapping about the major tanking going on. 

Last week (either here or on the Grizz message board) I mentioned how the 10 worst teams have lost a combined 40 straight games.  Last night on the Grizz board, someone asked "didn’t someone here say that 8 teams have lost 44 straight games?"  Then I see that 8 teams losing 44 straight games meme on ESPN.com this morning right after I checked out this site.

Hey, let’s predict what the new basketball memes will be!

Me: let guys declare out or HS, sign on for a 2 way contract ($75,000 or so) go to college then their NBA contract takes over when the hit the NBA.  

Also: Bamba: the next Bill Russell (at least on defense/rebounding)?

Ayton: the next 7 foot Karl Malone. Great body and first half stats but disappears down the stretch!

Draft overall: is this thing really that good? Where’s Shaq? Where’s Duncan? Where’s LeBron? Maybe this thing is closer to 1986!

 

 

[SwatLakeCityParticipant]

I wonder this too sometimes, but I prefer not too think of it as stealing our ideas, more so giving more credence to our sometimes outlandish thoughts, seeing what that team is thinking and then just experimenting with it too. (afterall we don’t have the resources to post these ideas, your thoughts are just that, ideas, that have no fruition unless you can actually go into the mind of Danny Ainge and see if he wants Kawhi)

I don’t believe Kawhi will leave in the offseason. This has been a tough year for him, certainly he’s not used to his body being banged up so much. He’s probably still trying to figure out what he can and can not do with his body right now, and isn’t confident enough to play yet. The Spurs realize this and want him to be more confident regardless of his body, and realize that the Spurs would ease him back into the rotation if he were more confident with his body. But he’s not, and therefore the Spurs are holding him out. I think its more of a confidence issue with Kawhi than him being actually injured. For that reason, I think the Spurs have more faith that Kawhi will come back next year, and be a lot better than the dissapointment he has been this season. Thus they’d be more willing to keep him. If that confidence wanes any more than it already has this season and again it rears its ugly head, then yes the Spurs will look to trade him, and possibly to the Celtics. But let’s wait until the offseason and see where Kawhi is at with his body before we just concede that he’s going elsewhere next season. (The Spurs are one of those teams in the league that give the media little information and since we have to lean on what the media is saying, we have to read between the lines.

P.S.  I got burned for doing something similar to this earlier in the season by suggesting Rubio should come off the bench, while Mitchell starts at point, if I would have said this might happen next year, I might not have gotten burned so much.

[Mr. 19134Participant]

 I can’t really explain the mechanics but they have bots that scan the internet for content.  These news sites including the sports sights are so ridicuosly compromised and fake it’s astonishing.  Most wouldn’t believe it but all will come to light soon.

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