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Yo, it's not a breadcrumb. It's a loaf of bread. Now you tell me, Rich, if I'm right or wrong. Is it the Cavs front office group, Kobe Altman, Brandon Weems, the Gilbert family, Grant Gilbert? Okay, what are you referring to? What happened? Meeting with LeBron in Akron in early July. Is that the loaf of bread you're talking about? Early July? Wait a minute. How did you know about that? I couldn't say, you know. So you thought this got by Shams, but he has all the details. I thought it got by Shams. No, because he never said anything to me about that. Nobody knew about that. That did not get out nowhere. Nobody knew about that. Why was this not reportable? Why did you not report it? So in real time, the integrity aspect matters more than anything because this was information I was told by multiple people on background off the record This was something that ethically I couldn report because one it wasn told to me in a way that I was able to have a reporter go double check and triple check It was told to me off the record. In other words, if someone says, hey, I can tell you on background, but this is off the record and you agree to that, then you can't burn them. And I report that. That's, I mean, that's that is journal. That's journalistically. As we spoke about earlier on this on this show like for me responsibility is important being up front is important ethically doing the job the right way my job is to tell the truth but also if if it's off the record and it's being told like this isn't reportable um you know if you talk and if i did that you're burning the source and the other side of it is also this is you know the history of lebron in cleveland you and what he means to that organization, and something like that. And that's probably why it was told to me off the record, right? Because if that were something that got out, I do think in real time it does lead on a little bit. So people get their hopes.