August is a weird time of the year to be an NBA fan.
Certain stories, which would normally be total non-stories in any other month, get completely blown out of proportion during the slowest month on the basketball calendar.
Case and point: SNY’s Ian Begley and Anthony Puccio reported that Carmelo Anthony was “participating in informal team workouts and scrimmages with Brooklyn Nets players in Los Angeles.” (Great story and reporting, by the way. I don’t want to discredit anything from those two).
There’s an important keyword here, though: informally.