Chad Ford caught changing past draft boards to make himself look better

[fallenchicken]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2tk9xa/chad_ford_changes_his_draft_boards_years_after/

 

[Siro]

What a douche.

 

[The Blue Elephant]

That is insane, I wonder what his response would be to that.

 

[The Blue Elephant]

I tweeted this to Chad Ford, David Locke, and Kevin Pelton on twitter to see what their reponse would be or if they answer me. On side note I saw this on Chad Fords twitter. https://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/51541/nba-insider-chad-ford

He thinks that Rudy Gobert would be a top two pick in a redraft . I am sure Hawk and Bawse Dawg would agree.

 

[stitches]

I have even more sinister suspicions about his mock drafts and his hype-job pre-draft, but since I have no evidence for that I'd shut up.

This guy on reddit comes really close to my suspicions:

AlphaLion7 123 points 3 hours ago
I worked for a prominent NBA agent years ago. Chad Ford came by our office a few times and was buddy/buddy with the agent. He would always write puff pieces about the agent's clients while he was in town and would without fail shoot the clients up his draft board and call them "fast risers" based on "sources" who were impressed with their workouts. None of our clients ever had a bad workout. I never put an ounce of stock into anything he's written since that time.

 

[Siro]

I have even more sinister suspicions about his mock drafts and his hype-job pre-draft, but since I have no evidence for that I'd shut up.

This guy on reddit comes really close to my suspicions:

I read something about that on Grantland (I think) not long ago. That kind of behavior is well known to happen all the time in sports journalism.

 

[Siro]

Found the story I mentioned. It was in the New Republic.

https://www.newrepublic.com/article...basketballs-reporting-machine-gets-his-scoops

 

[stitches]

Found the story I mentioned. It was in the New Republic.

https://www.newrepublic.com/article...basketballs-reporting-machine-gets-his-scoops

Oh, yah, I've seen that one... I really don't like that practice... There is absolutely no reason to believe anything of Woj's editorials, the only thing that seems reliable is his info, which is what I use him for exclusively. His opinion pieces are ... pieces of crap for the most part...

With Chad Ford the worse thing is that it seems like he's more in the hype business than the reporting business... I honestly have no idea what part of his reporting/opinion pieces I can trust.

 

[The Blue Elephant]

This reminds of of game of thrones with that goldfinger and the spider guy.

 

[The Midnight]

I have even more sinister suspicions about his mock drafts and his hype-job pre-draft, but since I have no evidence for that I'd shut up.

This guy on reddit comes really close to my suspicions:

OK, but I doubt GMs read Chad Ford's mock and said to themselves "Oh we better pick that guy - he's so HOT RIGHT NOW!!!"

 

[nightmare3983]

I wonder what ESPN thinks of this.

 

[UGLI baby]

I wonder what ESPN thinks of this.

Or ESPN is the one that goes back and edits his rankings...