How does this keep happening?
Ballsack Sports is an account that tweets out sports information that sounds true but really isn’t. One would expect a regular person just casually watching their timeline to get fooled, but ESPN talent has been fooled and reporting on these fake reports live on air.
Stephen A. Smith was the latest to do so. While talking to Magic Johnson about the James Harden-Kyrie Irving beef, he mentioned “according to reports” that Kyrie told Harden during a 1-on-1 game that he was “WASHED.”
The problem is that no one credible ever reported that. The only outlet that did was Ballsack Sports.
It lets you know you can pretty much say anything these days, and if it sounds believable, people will believe it, including major media outlets and personalities.
Then they repeat what is said, and also the saying goes a lie spreads much faster than the truth.
Here is the full fake quote from Ballsack Sports.
Kyrie Irving and James Harden got into “brief” physical altercation after Kyrie called the 32 year-old superstar “Washed” during one scrimmage.
Kendrick Perkins recently was also fooled by the report.
It almost makes me think that ESPN knows these reports are inaccurate, but who cares? It sounds better on TV if you say Kyrie called Harden washed.
Who cares if it is true or not? The ratings are way up, and the reason they are are up have nothing to do with nuance conversations about sports.
It has to do with the hottest of hot takes and a lot of yelling.
Lowkey ESPN should hire Ballsack or at least cut them a check for helping them with content for their shows because, if anything, they would be credited.
It is wild times in the media landscape these days.
Flip the pages for Stephen A. getting SACKED and some of the Twitter reactions. Trust me, the responses are hilarious.