From time to time, sports reporters and pundits occasionally get fooled by a faux tweet, whether it’s re-reported or retweeted. Everyone has a laugh and moves on.
FS1’s Skip Bayless was the latest victim. On Wednesday, while talking about the reports that there was a rift between the Houston Rockets’ James Harden and Chris Paul, Bayless said on Undisputed that Paul made fun of Harden’s “manboobs” in practice so much that the shooting guard left practice in tears.
That report isn’t true. It came from @SportsTalkBarry, who changed his Twitter name to Adrian Wojnarowski, used the ESPN reporter’s photo as his own and tweeted the fake story.
Here’s the clip:
Oops!
