Like wind gusts knocking hats off people in Copley Square, rumor season is annoyingly in full force. Everyone has an opinion on where star players like Kyrie Irving are going. Instagram likes are going viral, crowds are following him and chanting, and every day there seems to be a new rumor tying Irving to the Los Angeles Lakers or the New York Knicks.

Even though the Lakers talk is the hot rumor, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan poured some cold water on it today on the latest Hoop Collective podcast.

“I did a little digging around and my feeling is very strongly that while LeBron and Kyrie have kissed and made up, that Kyrie is not going there," she said. "He’s just not. I just don’t believe it. And I think people close to him just don’t believe it either.”

MacMullan has said on an earlier episode of this same podcast that Irving’s free agency is open and nothing is guaranteed, but this is the most outright dismissal of the Lakers rumors as there has been in recent days.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith had a similar dismissal of the rumor nearly two weeks ago.

“I got a text message from folks close to Kyrie’s family within the hour,” he said. “Quote: ‘there is no way in hell he’s going to L.A.’”

Smith then went on to say it’s very likely Irving would join Golden State Warriors star and former MVP Kevin Durant and sign with the New York Knicks.

“From everything that I’ve been hearing over the last few days, Kyrie Irving his heading to New York City,” he said. “Kyrie Irving is heading to Madison Square Garden with Kevin Durant. People in his inner circle are trying to bring the Nets into the mix, but clearly New York is the destination, the likelihood is that it will be MSG.”

Smith’s accuracy has been questioned many times in the past, and it’s no secret that he is as accurate with his reporting as Russell Westbrook is from 3, but that still means he hits from time to time.

MacMullan, though, is a tried and true journalist, so she wouldn’t say that, after doing some digging, she feels strongly Irving isn’t going to Los Angeles unless it had merit.

Of course, nothing is 100 percent certain with Irving so things could change, and his actual destination is still up in the air.