ESPN's hype machine pt 3/ the decision about the decision

            I feel like Stephen A Smith was an employee of ESPN just a few months ago, perhaps he's made guest appearances since his contract expired and he became a free agent analyst over a year ago (he has since joined http://www.foxsports.com/, which continues to become a more respectable sports news organization.  Much more respectable than ESPN, and here's one reason why...)  As with Lebron James feeling the need to steal D-wade's thunder by creating his own one hour special, Chris Broussard is the ESPN analyst who has been given all of the credit for finally determining where Lebron James would play basketball for the 2010-11 NBA regular season.  Just a few problems with that,  seeing as how a majority of the public are not aware that Stephen A Smith first reported that Lebron James would be signing with the Miami Heat along with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade on June 28th, ten days earlier.  Chris Broussard orignially scoffed at the idea of Lebron James and D-wade ever joining the same NBA franchise.  ESPN with Broussard as it's leading reporter seemed to feed us a stream of misinformation leading up to the day before the one hour special.   Throughout the month of may Chris Broussard said it was between Chicago, New York and heading back to Cleveland, changing which one Lebron was leaning towards on a daily basis.  It was ridiculous speculative reporting, and when he finally got it right, he took credit for the information without naming a source, while Stephen A Smith had named a source from the beginning.  The lesson being, just because most casual fans get their sports news from ESPN, doesn't mean they report the biggest breaking sports news stories first, and it doesn't mean they deserve all, if any of the credit.