What is behind the curtain for Philadelphia 76ers Markelle Fultz?

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Poor reporting, poor details

The matter of Markelle Fultz is getting a ton of media attention, and the quality of reporting is not exactly pristine. Take the reporting by ESPN sportswriter and basketball analyst Mark Jones, who portrayed the Markelle Fultz issue as a “psychosomatic” event in a recent broadcast. That set off the Markelle Fultz reaction, which triggered a lot of folks to sit up and notice.

Last night the word “psychosomatic” about Markelle Fultz was MY choice of words. NOT Coach Brown’s, I never said they were his.Fultz will conquer this. He has AllStar talent. Brown believes in Fultz and has a championship blueprint to guide him💯@sixers.
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) January 30, 2018

Oopsy! His bad.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

And that placed a microphone back to the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. A microphone which, for all intents and purposes, should be aimed directly at that “transparent” President Bryan Colangelo. But the news shared by Colangelo is either misleading or null, and so reporters go to the guy who shares what he knows.

Brett Brown on Sunday’s broadcast that said the #Sixers coach told ESPN’s Mark Jones that Markelle Fultz has “psychosomatic” effects that prevent him from shooting the ball right. Jones issued a retraction via a tweet Monday night. pic.twitter.com/8psxgnjFl4
— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) January 30, 2018

Right now, there is a more complete story behind the curtain of Markelle Fultz. But either nobody knows the full story or nobody cares to share it.