I guarantee you any media person worth their salt read the above and probably threw up in their mouth. But that's how I operate when it comes to the Kings. I'd rather keep the relationships and access I have, then get a few extra listeners/web hits and burn someone. That's me.
But what I never have done, and never will do, is make up news or feed an agenda. Nope. Ain't a show pony. Will never, ever happen. And if I have any doubts (which I sometimes do), I don't touch it.
In general, I agree with what Brick posted. I think it helps no one to even entertain discussions of fielding offers for Cuz, especially this day and age where a guy like Cuz just has to log onto twitter, or one of his friends will, and he sees it. There's just no benefit to having media contacts close to our organization publicly discussing the possibility of trading our franchise player, especially when our organization has done little to help Cuz in his first five NBA seasons. He, as has other players on the Kings, and us fans, have put up with a lot of BS. Through it all he's busted his ass, focused on maturing and made clear he's extremely loyal and wants to put the Kings back on the NBA map. What's he gotten in return? Our GM dragging his name through the mud and speculation that we might entertain trading him for this poor package or that poor package. You simply don't do that with HOF caliber players in a small market when they've publicly stated they want to be here. We know how rare that is, outside Webber it's never happened in Sac. When you understand the risk our market faces, it really makes no sense to play with fire. We're not LA or NY where we can just hope to attract a replacement. We'd be draft dependent and it could take years, over a decade.
At the same time, as much as you've come up in this conversation I don't think you're nearly as big a problem as other Sac based media. You come on here and debate, I've seen you on STR debating. You debate on twitter. You're more than open to dialogue and explaining yourself when others disagree. When you look at our other Sac based media, that's absent. When looking at the accusations in the podcast, what it appears happens is much of our media is fed their talking points/leaks, they then print them and that's it, it's signed, sealed and delivered for public consumption. There is no explanation, no dialogue. When many of these media members have social media accounts, you have to question why they're so afraid to debate, in comparison to the approach you take. They come across as a PR front/arm of the Kings. So while I do disagree with you at times, I also want to give you a fair amount of credit for keeping an open channel of dialogue and facing the fire so to speak on forums/twitter, which no one else is willing to do.