Looking for any additional reasons to not believe Sam Smith’s “report” on Kevin Love potentially opting out of his deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers and signing with the Los Angeles Lakers? Look no further than the other 29 teams within the NBA who are apparently desperately rooting for the Wine and Gold’s ascension to the top to be an utter and complete failure.

In his latest BS Report, Bill Simmons had on Grantland.com’s Zach Lowe to discuss the lay of the NBA land, including the impending hike in the salary cap and the number of teams that will be vying for stars. At about the 20-minute mark, the two had this exchange.

Bill Simmons: I think another thing that’s happening right now is these teams that are hoping that Kevin Love—this Cavs thing is going to be a disaster and that Kevin Love will be in play this summer. And you’re seeing something that I actually predicted last week. You’re going to see teams start leaking stuff that’s not true—an intentional sabotage. We’ve already seen one article this week. ‘Lakers feel that they have a chance to get Love next summer.’ Oh, OK. really? You do? You think Love’s going to jump to your 6-76 team? I think some of these teams are going to float stuff out. Like if this Cavs situation—you know, let’s say they’re 16-11 and let’s say it’s a little rocky and you have a couple Kyrie and Dion Waiters-type, a couple more of those moments—all these teams are going to start leaking stuff that ‘it’s not what Love thought.’ This is stuff that’s going to happen, and how Cleveland handles that is going to be really interesting. And how Kevin Love handles it is going to be interesting. I think he’d be crazy to leave LeBron, but you know—you never know. There’s going to be 20 teams chasing him. Zach Lowe: I don’t care what little nice things Kevin Love said on the day of the trade. He’s a free agent. There’s an incentive to be a free agent and then be a free agent again when the new TV deal kicks in. Stuff goes wrong. The Lakers of two years ago are the best example of that. Things look great on paper and then stuff goes wrong and people leave. I think Kevin Love will stay because I think the Cavs are going to be really, really good and figure it out. But it’s not—I get why everyone says, ‘Why are we talking about Kevin Love’s free agency already? Why are we talking about Kevin Durant’s free agency already?’ You know why? Because the whole league is talking about these issues. That’s what they’re concerned with; that’s what they’re planning for. … The story starts a year or two before. This is life in the NBA. Simmons: We had a lot of people rooting against Miami in 2011 when they got together. It was for the karma reasons and the way it all played out. This Cavs thing is different because you have teams—and people working for those teams—really actively rooting for this Cavs thing to not go well because it puts the following people in play: Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving. And everyone knows it. And for whatever reason, LeBron decides (GM LeBron, by the way because he is GM of that team), “You know what? Kyrie Irving is Steve Francis. This is a guy who can only succeed in basketball if he is the one succeeding; he does not approach a basketball game thinking to himself ‘how can I make everyone better, he’s just asking what’s the best situation for me?’ and I don’t want that. I’m not saying he’s going to come to that conclusion, but let’s say he does in January. Who’s sitting there waiting for him? The Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix Suns are dying for that situation to happen. Same thing for the Spurs. And the Knicks. And the Lakers. … All of them are praying every night that this Cavs thing is going to be a disaster. So, I’m not trusting any story I read. Anonymous sources. Sources say. I just think it’s all BS and that’s the way the league works.

Simmons and Lowe discuss the Irving-to-Phoenix thing a bit further, but never touched on the item that makes the most sense: Eric Bledsoe and LeBron are boys and the Suns guard doesn’t dominate the ball and plays defense. But nevertheless, the story remains: There will be incredulous amounts of information thrown out to national writers and team-specific writers who also claim to cover the league. Lowe mentions that its the responsibility of these writers to vet out such nonsense, but at some point, it’s like asking a puppy to not go near that plate of food you’re about to leave on the coffee table.

Just like that dog’s owner who’s about to come back to scraps and a huge mess to clean up, Cavalier fans will be faced with these sort of reports over the course of the entire season. They’ll be published. They’ll be dissected. They’ll be misconstrued. But as Simmons said, it’s handling this sort of turbulence that will be the trick.