Picture this: A top-three-to-five player in a star-driven league demanded his billionaire owner either fire his successful general manager and hall-of-fame coach or trade him. Crazier still, this got out and became public information in a way that forced said owner to tweet in support of said GM and coach.
What’s more insane than all of that: A company that proudly calls itself The Worldwide Leader in Sports seems to have chosen not to cover it.
For almost six hours (an eternity in news time) after Shams Charania reported the details of Kevin Durant’s meeting with Joe Tsai, ESPN went radio silent on the biggest sporting news of the day and perhaps the biggest news of a jam-packed NBA offseason.