I can’t believe someone at SportsCenter thought they could sneak a blue checkmark onto a fake Mike Dunleavy Jr. account’s tweet to King James and they wouldn’t get caught. That takes some balls considering there are BC followers and others out there just waiting — because they’re single & don’t have anything else going on — to call them on their bullshit.
It’s one thing to run a parody account’s tweet — all of us screw up from time to time. It’s another to go the blue check photoshop route and then be proud of it.
Here we go.
VIDEO: ESPN “Verified” a Fake Mike Dunleavy Twitter Account: @awfulannouncingpic.twitter.com/XGqgntsNaz
— R… https://t.co/d69ZpOYR61— Cameron West (@Sports42Fanatic) July 7, 2016
Fake Mike has since updated his bio:
Mario was all over that tweet from the start:
@bustedcoverage Hey @espn, you might want to see if that account is real. Spoiler alert, it's not. pic.twitter.com/Q9zP4tgXR3
— Mario (@juanmariolopez) July 7, 2016
Ever had a feeling that someone at ESPN is making up bullshit to further ones ‘Insider’ career? Something tells me there aren’t too many checks and balances to that place. Need a tweet to compliment the free agency night? Ahh hell, just throw on a blue check, let’s make that tweet official.
Never forget how ESPN manufactured the Colin Kaepernick story.
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