The NBA rumor mill should not be blindly trusted. If it couldn’t be, it wouldn’t be a rumor mill.
Oftentimes, there will be speculation about a particular possibility until it becomes a reality. In that event, NBA writers are gifted with one big “I told you so”. Other times, that event never comes to be:
Don’t worry. We just move on to the next rumor in that event.
Everyone thought Donovan Mitchell was going to end up on the New York Knicks this summer. It felt like a foregone conclusion. Instead, the Cleveland Cavaliers traded for the Jazz’s scoring guard. The Knicks, in typical Knicks fashion, missed out.
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At the same time, the Mitchell deal came completely out of left field. What’s stopping the Knicks from making their own unexpected trade for a star guard?
Here’s one that lands them Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder