Earlier today, Former ESPN and current Bleacher Report NBA Insider Ric Bucher broke a story claiming that the Miami Heat would be trading Norris Cole, future draft picks and cash to the Toronto Raptors to bring Kyle Lowry to South Beach. It’s seems that this was a huge mistake on Bucher’s part. He then took to Twitter to apologize for breaking the story and expressed his embarrassment at his over-eagerness to release a story that’s actually false.
My deepest and sincere apologies. My report on Lowry and a S&T between the Raptors-Heat is wrong. I should’ve known better. I could not…
— Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) June 27, 2014
…be more embarrassed. I can’t explain why someone would go the lengths “my source” did to set me up, but that’s irrelevant. I allowed…
— Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) June 28, 2014
my zeal to break a story take too much for granted. I’d like to think I’m better than that. Yesterday and today I was not.
— Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) June 28, 2014
Obviously, there’s mixed reactions over Bucher’s apology, but it does take guts to admit he was wrong.
[h/t Twitter]