No disrespect to Nichols, I actually like his content. But he has zero credibility as an insider (not that he ever lost any, but he hasn’t built any yet)
Also I think he works for the Fourth Period which has a reputation for spewing bogus rumors
chickenKsadilla
This is a good reminder that there is a very small group of insiders who are 99% reliable on everything they say: Friedman, LeBrun, McKenzie are almost always on the money. Weekes and Dreger have gotten very good, but probably a tier below. There also are some ESPN folks who are now gaining sources, like Emily Kaplan for example.
Perhaps I’m missing a few, but in general there is a STEEP drop-off after this group to everyone else. For example, you have to straight up ignore anything from Pagnotta because he literally just makes shit up.
Then you have the local beats, some of whom are definitely plugged in to a degree, but not to the level of the national insiders and many of which just aggregate other people’s reports and also make way more assumptions than probably should be allowed. Nichols is one of those people.
Bottom line: Unless it comes from the elite group, you really shouldn’t have any confidence that it’s true.
Nichols is a hack. Novo is our only worthwhile reporter.
Anonycron
Wait, is there more to the exchange? Where does the dad dispute the numbers or claim they were made up. Doesn’t he just ask where they came from? Couldn’t an alternative explanation be that these were supposed to be private and he is asking who leaked?
Music_Guard_Sports
Last week on Twitter someone commented to me how Toffoli wanted too much. I replied with “you don’t know how much he wants because it’s never been made public” and papa Toffoli liked it.
Dad is very much into this.
TheDugoutGum
From ownership down this team is in absolute shambles and if you don’t see it you’re blinded by love.
Our owners are balancing their time between the 76ers and the Commanders. They simply don’t give a shit.
I don’t care what the price was at the begin/early of the season. This was year one of our legit window opening up and Fitzgerald BALKED on D and in net and now we’re paying the consequences. We score goals every single night yet have to hold our breath every shot taken against us. Dougies injury was bad and it stinks but Fitz had PLENTY of time to stop the bleeding and he’s done NOTHING.
JFreader
What numbers? What was said. Also the link doesn’t work anymore so maybe he deleted the tweet.
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No disrespect to Nichols, I actually like his content. But he has zero credibility as an insider (not that he ever lost any, but he hasn’t built any yet)
Also I think he works for the Fourth Period which has a reputation for spewing bogus rumors
This is a good reminder that there is a very small group of insiders who are 99% reliable on everything they say: Friedman, LeBrun, McKenzie are almost always on the money. Weekes and Dreger have gotten very good, but probably a tier below. There also are some ESPN folks who are now gaining sources, like Emily Kaplan for example.
Perhaps I’m missing a few, but in general there is a STEEP drop-off after this group to everyone else. For example, you have to straight up ignore anything from Pagnotta because he literally just makes shit up.
Then you have the local beats, some of whom are definitely plugged in to a degree, but not to the level of the national insiders and many of which just aggregate other people’s reports and also make way more assumptions than probably should be allowed. Nichols is one of those people.
Bottom line: Unless it comes from the elite group, you really shouldn’t have any confidence that it’s true.
Edit: Removed Seravalli by suggestion
Post is deleted. What did it say?
https://x.com/thebrattpack63/status/1765742701373161613?s=46
Here’s a link to a picture of the interaction
Nichols is a hack. Novo is our only worthwhile reporter.
Wait, is there more to the exchange? Where does the dad dispute the numbers or claim they were made up. Doesn’t he just ask where they came from? Couldn’t an alternative explanation be that these were supposed to be private and he is asking who leaked?
Last week on Twitter someone commented to me how Toffoli wanted too much. I replied with “you don’t know how much he wants because it’s never been made public” and papa Toffoli liked it.
Dad is very much into this.
From ownership down this team is in absolute shambles and if you don’t see it you’re blinded by love.
Our owners are balancing their time between the 76ers and the Commanders. They simply don’t give a shit.
I don’t care what the price was at the begin/early of the season. This was year one of our legit window opening up and Fitzgerald BALKED on D and in net and now we’re paying the consequences. We score goals every single night yet have to hold our breath every shot taken against us. Dougies injury was bad and it stinks but Fitz had PLENTY of time to stop the bleeding and he’s done NOTHING.
What numbers? What was said. Also the link doesn’t work anymore so maybe he deleted the tweet.