First dates are awkward. You're always feeling each other out and playing coy. There are so many smokescreens and Funhouse mirrors that it's hard to tell what either party is actually feeling.
Of course, sometimes you drool while staring at your date.
And, if Twitter is to be believed (and it probably shouldn't be), then the Cavs are doing the NBA draft equivalent of drooling on the table cloth.
Of course, sometimes you drool while staring at your date.
And, if Twitter is to be believed (and it probably shouldn't be), then the Cavs are doing the NBA draft equivalent of drooling on the table cloth.
Several NBA officials told me the Cavs have no desire to unload the top pick and have honed in on Joel Embiid.
— Gery Woelfel (@GeryWoelfel) June 11, 2014
Here's the problem: A quick Google search of Gery Woelfel will tell you that he's a columnist for the Racine Journal Times. For those of you not familiar with the highly-esteemed RJT, it's a daily Wisconsin paper located in Racine County. Its Facebook page (with a modest 3, 798 likes) claims that the news outlet reaches 75 percent of the adults in Racine county. I do not know if Racine county has a lot of people or not and I'm too lazy to look.
This isn't a shot at Woelfel. He probably does have sources who are telling him those exact things (though I wonder how a Wisconsin journalist got Cleveland sources---wouldn't it make more sense if this were the Bucks pretending to be the Cavs?). I'm not familiar with Woelfel's work, so we'll assume he's a damn fine journalist. Still, some of the tweets that are emerging will come from half-journalists and bloggers (Moondog will not be tweeting draft night speculation that we claim from anonymous NBA sources). And most of them will be wrong or premature or worse, outright lies.
Look, what I'm trying to say is this: there's going to be a lot of people that crawl out of the woodwork between now and the draft. These people will claim to have insider info on the Cavs. By virtue of mathematics and chaos theory, some of them will luck into being right and the others will be wrong. Right now they all have the same statistical shot at draft night validity. Until then, ML is taking everything with a grain of salt and you should too. But for now, here's this Tweet. Maybe Joel Embiid will be a Cav (but then again, maybe he won't).
This isn't a shot at Woelfel. He probably does have sources who are telling him those exact things (though I wonder how a Wisconsin journalist got Cleveland sources---wouldn't it make more sense if this were the Bucks pretending to be the Cavs?). I'm not familiar with Woelfel's work, so we'll assume he's a damn fine journalist. Still, some of the tweets that are emerging will come from half-journalists and bloggers (Moondog will not be tweeting draft night speculation that we claim from anonymous NBA sources). And most of them will be wrong or premature or worse, outright lies.
Look, what I'm trying to say is this: there's going to be a lot of people that crawl out of the woodwork between now and the draft. These people will claim to have insider info on the Cavs. By virtue of mathematics and chaos theory, some of them will luck into being right and the others will be wrong. Right now they all have the same statistical shot at draft night validity. Until then, ML is taking everything with a grain of salt and you should too. But for now, here's this Tweet. Maybe Joel Embiid will be a Cav (but then again, maybe he won't).