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And so the question that the federal government has been asking that I have been trying to follow through, frankly, a lot of public records and otherwise, social media profiles, falling down the rabbit hole on NBA Twitter, on Instagram and all this stuff is who knows who?

There are a bunch of guys in the NBA indictment, a bunch of characters listed as defendants.

And the question is who in college basketball and beyond knows those guys?

And so Antonio Blakeney has been circled with highlighter for me because he is in the social network among some of these characters.

And again, my reporting is absolutely still ongoing.

But the fact that his name has now been mentioned –

As, again, a former college All-American player from LSU who went to the Chinese Basketball Association, who has been, for those who are paying any amount of attention to the CBA, has been a character over there because of alleged rigged games.

It's not exactly rocket science, but what it does require is something that I think hardcore basketball degenerates and now the federal government both have been doing, which is trying to figure out, wait a minute, is that the guy from that thing?

Ah.

And it turns out that in this case, allegedly, Antonio Blakeney is the guy from that thing.

Yeah.

I mean, this is a story about vocabulary.

What does it mean to be a reporter?

And we're really bad at defining what that is and how that might be different from journalists and how that might be different from person doing interviews.

Is every podcaster a journalist because they ask questions?

Every person at a press conference, a journalist, a reporter, because they have a microphone in front of them.

And I know that this is a story about the word reporter because the way that this broke open, Sagar, to your point, was Adam Schefter.

I'll just quote what his tweet said because nobody was paying attention to a 22nd

Non-question from Lynn Jones, who is a longtime, longtime employee of a black newspaper in Jacksonville.

They were responding to what Adam Schefter said, quote, This is an awesome postgame exchange between a reporter and Jaguars H.C.