It wasn’t a quote.So you are calling 2 reporters liars who both corroborated the other's account of the conversation with the agent?
And why would two reporters come out of nowhere on the same exact day to quote the exact agent the exact same quote?
Making a public statement is vastly different than making comments in private.
They were talking about a hot topic around the trade deadline and facts regarding these things are exceptionally rare. I also don’t find Marc Stein to be tier 1 of basketball journalists or whoever else was saying that stuff (which by the way is a tired narrative, and also even if true doesn’t have to remain true anyway).